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Newkirk

Closedmouth, that was a sloppy mistake. Thanks for catching it. I explained on the talk page. Cheers.Griswaldo (talk) 21:06, 15 December 2010 (UTC)

That's fine. --Closedmouth (talk) 15:29, 16 December 2010 (UTC)

Prods on Rodney Sneijder

Hi Closedmouth. I tagged both prods on this for separate reasons. The BLP prod was because it was an unreferenced BLP. The regular prod was because he doesn't meet our notability guidelines. If you wish to object to the regular prod because you think he's notable feel free to do that. But I don't think you should object to the second prod just because the BLP prod is already attached. If someone comes along to source this article I'd now have to delete it through AfD. There are times when it is advantageous to use both prods simultaneously. ThemFromSpace 12:42, 20 December 2010 (UTC)

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...the fuck? --Closedmouth (talk) 14:54, 21 December 2010 (UTC)
You're being forced into retirement. Thank you and have a nice day. Killiondude (talk) 17:41, 21 December 2010 (UTC)

Rudolf Skácel

Thank you very much for kindly deleting the edit containing the expletive on Rudolf Skácel's goal scoring attributes. I personally have no idea how my account was used to insert this piece of vandalism but I will endeavor to track down the culprit. I have since changed my password and can only apologise to you for any in inconvenience caused. Ant321 (talk) 11:05, 22 December 2010 (UTC)

I'm so confused. --Closedmouth (talk) 09:39, 23 December 2010 (UTC)

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Nomination of Christmas Don't Be Late (film) for deletion

The article Christmas Don't Be Late (film) is being discussed concerning whether it is suitable for inclusion as an article according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.

The article will be discussed at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Christmas Don't Be Late (film) until a consensus is reached, and anyone is welcome to contribute to the discussion. The nomination will explain the policies and guidelines which are of concern. The discussion focuses on good quality evidence, and our policies and guidelines.

Users may edit the article during the discussion, including to improve the article to address concerns raised in the discussion. However, do not remove the article-for-deletion template from the top of the article. Rob Sinden (talk) 09:27, 24 January 2011 (UTC)

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Review of speedy deletion of Rick Stokes

Hi, I was looking over the history of this article (after reading a query from the article creator at Portal talk:LGBT). The second edit was to blank it and request deletion as an attack page. I wonder though if before deletion, you looked at the blanked article. I see nothing there that could be construed as an attack. It needs work, but it claims notability and is not negative towards the subject. Could you please review your deletion and either restore the article or tell me and the article creator why you do not feel that is appropriate? Thanks, LadyofShalott 18:31, 29 January 2011 (UTC)

Ah, huh, I must have read the first paragraph in the wrong context. Apologies, feel free to restore it. --Closedmouth (talk) 06:50, 31 January 2011 (UTC)
Thanks, I'll go restore it now! LadyofShalott 02:39, 1 February 2011 (UTC)

Repeated and persistant vandlaism by User talk:170.91.194.9

We'd all appreciate your taking further, and stronger, action. Viva-Verdi (talk) 23:21, 31 January 2011 (UTC)

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Lazyhawk

Dear Closedmouth,

Regards to blocking of User_talk:Lazyhawk's IP. I've checked the address specified by ProcseeBot, and I can't connect there. Have you checked yourself that it is an open proxy indeed?

As for Lazyhawk, he's well known Russian wikipedian in very good standing, so I'd ask to trust him and to try to assist him in attempts to understand what's wrong. Dr Bug (Vladimir V. Medeyko) 14:10, 4 February 2011 (UTC)

I checked it again last night, and it seems to have been rotated or whatever, and is no longer open. I was going to unblock it myself but slakr beat me to it. --Closedmouth (talk) 15:38, 5 February 2011 (UTC)
Thank you very much! Dr Bug (Vladimir V. Medeyko) 07:04, 8 February 2011 (UTC)

Bow Leg

Hi

I do not know what happened there - I had two problems last night

First there was a problem when the secure server went wrong last night - during a save I had two AWB windows which came up and told me I had new messages - the secure server was down though and I could not re-login in. I closed AWB and logged in on the normal servers.

I shut down AWB and then re-opened it.

Secondly when I did a later AWB session the Fronds plug-in was automatically enabled. It gave me an AWB window that was full of one word repeated hundreds of times down the screen

Again I shut down AWB and then re-opened it.

As far as I was aware it hadn't made a save at either of those points so I truly do not know what went wrong. I will look at my other edits around that time to make sure nothing else was corrupted.

Thanks for letting me know Chaosdruid (talk) 12:01, 5 February 2011 (UTC)

I have checked ten minutes before and after the one you found and the rest are ok. I still have no clue as to how it happened - thanks for fixing it though :¬) Chaosdruid (talk) 12:07, 5 February 2011 (UTC)

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RE:

Wait, you're right. I thought he was doing the vandalism. Flying on auto-pilot has drawbacks, eh? :P m.o.p 22:59, 10 February 2011 (UTC)

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National Asshole Day

It is a fictional holiday but it deserves a Wikipedia page. Restore the page now.— Preceding unsigned comment added by Helenak0991 (talk • contribs)

No. --Closedmouth (talk) 07:35, 21 February 2011 (UTC)

Indonesian misinformation vandal back again...

Hello.

The Indonesian misninformation vandal has returned right this minute. This time, he used the address 118.137.75.198 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · filter log · WHOIS · RDNS · RBLs · http · block user · block log). Probably, the rangeblock on the 118.137.0.0/17 has now expired and is now taking advantage. Need your action ASAP. Thank you. - 上村七美 (Nanami-chan) | talkback | contribs 11:20, 21 February 2011 (UTC)

Never mind. Already blocked for 12 hours. But just in case, if you could do rangeblocks, can you put reapply it on the 118.137.0.0/17 range? The guy must taken advantage since the rangeblock expired a few days ago. - 上村七美 (Nanami-chan) | talkback | contribs 11:31, 21 February 2011 (UTC)
I'll keep an eye on it. --Closedmouth (talk) 11:33, 21 February 2011 (UTC)

Ehsan ghaem maghami is Iranian, not Israeili!

I've changed the mistake on "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_world_records_in_chess#Most_simultaneous_games" but you reverted it! Take a look here to see where he is really from! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ehsan_Ghaem-Maghami —Preceding unsigned comment added by 92.61.181.24 (talk) 11:04, 22 February 2011 (UTC)

But the title of the source is "Israeli strips Iran of Guinness world record in chess"[1]. Has somebody screwed with that? --Closedmouth (talk) 11:07, 22 February 2011 (UTC)
That's the old news, this record is broken multiple times, I've removed the old source from the section, there's also a problem in "See Also" section, could you please change that, the mistake is repeated there92.61.181.24 (talk) 11:12, 22 February 2011 (UTC)
That should be fixed; apologies for the warning, you can remove it if you'd like. --Closedmouth (talk) 11:14, 22 February 2011 (UTC)

quickerazy

sorry

Okay. --Closedmouth (talk) 11:39, 22 February 2011 (UTC)

IP socks

Hi, Closedmouth, thanks for reverting the edits on Real Steel and such. Not sure if you are familiar with Pricer1980 and his IP socks (or someone in a very similar pattern), but I explained the situation to another editor here. We could block, but I'm not keen on it because we have to find the next IP that pops up. (I've reported a few already, just seems easier to monitor the one right now.) Erik (talk | contribs) 12:29, 22 February 2011 (UTC)

Page reverted by someone without a clue

You are mentioned. Care to comment here? -- Uzma Gamal (talk) 16:22, 22 February 2011 (UTC)

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What the hell was this?

See Pattiso talk page, someone seems to think that he was born in 1978?!BHillbillies (talk) 21:03, 23 February 2011 (UTC)

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Carole Lieberman

You recently proposed that this article be deleted: [2] I agree with your concerns, and have nominated it for deletion. Your comments are welcome at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Carole Lieberman. Robofish (talk) 01:23, 5 March 2011 (UTC)

I want

your love and I want your revenge. Killiondude (talk) 08:04, 7 March 2011 (UTC)

Get your buttocks into IRC. --Closedmouth (talk) 08:08, 7 March 2011 (UTC)

91.122.81.253

Sorry to disturb you, can you please block 91.122.81.253 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · filter log · WHOIS · RDNS · RBLs · http · block user · block log)? It is being used by a known Russian vandal putting false miscellaneous "anime" info on Philippine TV programs like Super Inggo. Needing your action ASAP. Thanks. - 上村七美 (Nanami-chan) | talkback | contribs 09:46, 7 March 2011 (UTC)

Done. --Closedmouth (talk) 09:52, 7 March 2011 (UTC)

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User talk:198.189.140.205

There is some funny business going on at User talk:198.189.140.205, whose unblock you declined, you may want to swing by that way again. Monty845 (talk) 22:25, 14 March 2011 (UTC) Looks like another admin already took care of it. Monty845 (talk) 22:32, 14 March 2011 (UTC)

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Joseph Kuklinski

Can you restore Joseph Kuklinski please, you can take it to AFD if you want. --Richard Arthur Norton (1958- ) (talk) 21:27, 15 March 2011 (UTC)

Done. --Closedmouth (talk) 06:28, 16 March 2011 (UTC)

Article about Molly O'Connell

Why you removed the BLPPROD tag on Molly O'Connell article? I guess you should not remove the tag and continue it for delete until the actual date expires. Would you join the deletion discussion for discuss on the deleting article. ApprenticeFan work 13:21, 20 March 2011 (UTC)

Because Molly O'Connell#References, thought that was kinda obvious. --Closedmouth (talk) 14:23, 20 March 2011 (UTC)

Relation Art

Thanks. I really screwed that one up. First I bungled the move, then I missed fixing the redirect that was made through the bungle, even though I do this day in and out. I think I need a vacation.--Fuhghettaboutit (talk) 12:52, 21 March 2011 (UTC)

Don't worry, I read the contract, we're allowed to make a mistake every now and then. --Closedmouth (talk) 13:17, 21 March 2011 (UTC)

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Ayurveda - Deletion Log - March 26th

Hey there Closedmouth, I am trying to dispute a deletion of a page I developed Ayurveda (band) and you posted something on the Deletion Log (Mar 26th) that I don't understand. I am wondering if you could explain it to me and then perhaps hold my hand through this dispute process. I am finding it to be very confusing and am most anxious to work with the Wiki Gods to clarify my position on the page and to make changes that might be in order. Anything you could do would be most appreciated. Whysosirius (talk) 13:42, 28 March 2011 (UTC)

I simply deleted a redirect to the page which had already been deleted. I had nothing to do with the deletion of the article itself. --Closedmouth (talk) 14:00, 28 March 2011 (UTC)
Who should I be addressing this with, do you know? Whysosirius (talk) 14:33, 28 March 2011 (UTC)
Orangemike (talk · contribs) deleted the article in question. --Closedmouth (talk) 14:36, 28 March 2011 (UTC)

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Regarding an unblock request you declined

I note your response here. My query is whether the other party was giving permission or stating the physical possibility? LessHeard vanU (talk) 20:44, 31 March 2011 (UTC)

That was the most awesome unblock decline I have ever seen. (No wonder people are so eager to become admins.) 28bytes (talk) 21:39, 31 March 2011 (UTC)
I have to second that, pure awesomeness. Tofutwitch11 (TALK) 01:57, 1 April 2011 (UTC)
The Barnstar of Good Humor
For your response to Negi(afk). Nyttend (talk) 00:58, 1 April 2011 (UTC)
You're a lovely audience. I'm here all week. Try the veal. --Closedmouth (talk) 09:25, 1 April 2011 (UTC)

+1  Frank  |  talk  12:58, 1 April 2011 (UTC)

Objection

19:02, 1 April 2011 Closedmouth (talk | contribs) deleted "Talk:Companyia Elèctrica Dharma" ‎ (Deleted because "G7: One author who has requested deletion or blanked the page".(TW))


NOTE: THIS ARTICLE IS UNDER CONSTRUCTION. I'll keep building it up on the incoming days. If you would like to help improving the English language expression or helping anyway, please, don't hesitate. Tnx! - This is a 40 years band, the most important from my country. And I am a begginer at Wikipedia. At least I quit 3 years ago since there's all this bourucracy started. I don't know exactly where to type things as this "hold on" etc and have other things to do also in my life. Please just stop preassure. IT'S A CONTRIBUTION and I think it's important. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Joel També (talk • contribs) 19:10, 1 April 2011 (UTC)

I didn't delete the article, just the talk page. The article is still here: Companyia Elèctrica Dharma --Closedmouth (talk) 19:15, 1 April 2011 (UTC)

Don't delete

Please don't delete any of my pages such as User:UncleDouggie/test4 unless I specifically request it. I'm rewriting Twinkle and need lots of very weird looking stuff to test error conditions. Thanks. —UncleDouggie (talk) 08:09, 2 April 2011 (UTC)

Sorry, it looked like you were done with it. --Closedmouth (talk) 09:04, 2 April 2011 (UTC)
I continuously run queries on all my pages even if I don't make any actual edits. I need to see exactly how the API returns errors. —UncleDouggie (talk) 09:12, 2 April 2011 (UTC)

Negi(afk)

Hey, Closedmouth, I'm just wondering why you indef'd Negi (afk). I hadn't seen anything that I would call terribly actionable since my block expired, and your block summary of "troll" was not terribly enlightening. I'm not looking for a change, because I can't say I disagree, but I would like some clarification. Cheers. lifebaka++ 15:59, 3 April 2011 (UTC)

He's made it clear through his general attitude and through off-wiki communication that his sole purpose here is to cause disruption. I would go so far as to say he's performing a breaching experiment, but that's probably giving him too much credit. He is essentially an inveterate troll; he's contributed nothing to Wikipedia except vitriol and personal attacks and I see no reason to afford him the ability to continue to do so. --Closedmouth (talk) 16:58, 3 April 2011 (UTC)
Ah. Thanks for the clarification. I have had a touch of off-wiki communication with him myself (which I invited), and you might be right. Still, I'm going to do my best to give him a chance before I wash my hands of the situation. Supposing that he can convince me that he will stop trolling and I forward the emails stating such to you, would you be terribly opposed to an unblock? lifebaka++ 18:11, 3 April 2011 (UTC)
I gave him a 4im warning for vandalising SPI, then he vandalised the AfD page by removing the banner at the top of it so I reported the user to AIV. He was banned from the IRC for trolling and has communicated to me and others that he has no interest in contributing other than trolling. —Tom Morris (talk) 18:50, 3 April 2011 (UTC)
I would be sceptical. Very sceptical. --Closedmouth (talk) 19:23, 3 April 2011 (UTC)

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Ray William Johnson

Hello, I see that you are the administrator responsible for salting =3, the popular show name of Ray William Johnson. This article has now been created, and has stood for over a week without a deletion attempt. Could you please create =3 as a redirect to Ray William Johnson, as well as any other related pages which were repeated created, that I am unaware of? Thanks, 117Avenue (talk) 00:47, 5 April 2011 (UTC)

Done. --Closedmouth (talk) 04:27, 5 April 2011 (UTC)

24.116.79.135

Hi, Closedmouth. Re your revert here, I think a final warning is also in order. (RevDel would also be appropriate per criteria 2 and 3, although I'm pretty much indifferent to the namecalling.) In any case, it's clearly one user at the IP, and they haven't made a constructive edit yet. My original warning to them stemmed from an incident of pure vandalism hiding behind a plausible edit summary. One more misstep and they should be blocked. Rivertorch (talk) 19:00, 6 April 2011 (UTC)

There were no edits from the IP after my revert, so I left it. Also don't see anything particularly heinous in the edits requiring revdel, seems like pretty bog-standard vandalism to me. --Closedmouth (talk) 19:21, 6 April 2011 (UTC)

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Adept (band) deleted??!!!

Adept is a great band, and has significant popularity over in Sweden. Why has it been deleted? Is this a joke??? is there a new article? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.121.55.4 (talk) 18:29, 18 April 2011 (UTC)

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Reasons for decline of unblock

Dear Closedmouth,

Can you please explain to me the reasons for the decline of request? Frankly I'm not sure why I was blocked to start with and I don't really understand much about IP addresses and how they work so I would appreciate if you use "layman's terms" in this regard. I'm not contesting your decision, but if I want to avoid things like this I would need to understand how it happened and how to avoid it. Thanks for your understanding. --Mahaodeh (talk) 08:40, 19 April 2011 (UTC)

Are you serious? If you're posting here you're clearly not blocked. --Closedmouth (talk) 18:21, 19 April 2011 (UTC)

Can you unblock me

I am Newcrash and I have been blocked and my request to be unblocked was decline. I gave my reasons way I sould be unblocked. At the time I was doing small edits and made a few articles but still looking at the guide lines. Some time later on the 18th April I got a massages saying that I was bloacked because I was Sockpuppet Ryan kirkpatrick which I have tried to explain that I am not him which has not worded. I am still trying to get unblock and I ask for your help and would be really thankful if you could unblock me think you. Newcrash (Newcrash) 19:31, 22 April 2011 (UTC)

Offensive edits

I see that you have redacted the edits by user:86.161.97.4 to the Alan Shearer article. He/she has made identical edits to Gabby Logan and Ewan McGregor. Can you do the same for them as well? Thanks. -- Daemonic Kangaroo (talk) 13:21, 24 April 2011 (UTC)

Beg you pardon - they have now been redacted. Sorry to bother you! Daemonic Kangaroo (talk) 13:22, 24 April 2011 (UTC)

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Jason Sizemore

Hi, I'm not sure I understand your BLPPROD on this article, there appear to be sources in the External links section which demonstrate the chap exists and is an editor of a publication, they are just not wrapped in footnotes. I have doubts about notability, but that's a different issue. Cheers --Fæ (talk) 07:16, 26 April 2011 (UTC)

Wasn't me. --Closedmouth (talk) 07:28, 26 April 2011 (UTC)
Oops, thanks. Fæ (talk) 07:29, 26 April 2011 (UTC)

VT

Regarding Vojsava Kastrioti, who was the user that requested the protection? The result of various discussions on RSN(latest) and RfC{Request for Comment) has been not to include any of the sources that User:Zoupan is always reverting.--— ZjarriRrethues — talk 08:00, 18 April 2011 (UTC)

WhiteWriter (talk · contribs) requested the lock, and I protected the wrong version on purpose, as admins are required to do. --Closedmouth (talk) 16:20, 18 April 2011 (UTC)

Are you saying that the protected page is "biased, nationalistic, libellous, inaccurate" ([3]) ? How the reader is informed on that and how the article can become a true encyclopaedic one? --Euzen (talk) 14:52, 26 April 2011 (UTC)

Well, i asked for help alredy, but as user Zjarri managed to obtain lower article protection to semi-protected, we should count minutes until edit war begin again. But thanks anyway, i tried. Most related POV-push editors are willing to use talk only when wrong version in on the air, so... I give up anyway. Thanks for your kind help. :) --WhiteWriter speaks 18:55, 18 April 2011 (UTC)
Yesterday! :) --WhiteWriter speaks 14:10, 20 April 2011 (UTC)

help me

how are you ?

i hope youre good

i need help with locking an article so it doesent get any more attention

someone told me an article was written about me on here and i checked it out i have made some corrections and hey there was this thing about getting the article deleted

im guessing youre an admin so i want you to check it out please

thanks a lot

the article is http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sugaspott

Sugaspott (talk) 10:31, 30 April 2011 (UTC)

Is there anything in particular that you have a problem with? A quick look shows that there aren't many references that we would define as coming from reliable sources, so if those aren't found the article may be deleted at some point. If there are any factual inaccuracies, point them out and they can be removed. --Closedmouth (talk) 10:46, 30 April 2011 (UTC)
Wait, are you also Wikispott (talk · contribs)? If so, please only use one account to edit, thank you. --Closedmouth (talk) 10:49, 30 April 2011 (UTC)

Thanks

Just stopping by to say thanks for the quick typo-fixes you did on my user page. It's somewhat embarrassing to have inadvertently used an American English spelling in a paragraph about my dislike of American English :P Thanks! ★KEYS★ (talk) 20:21, 30 April 2011 (UTC)

Hi

Due to your cryptic message, I discovered a set of about 1600 pages that are quite silly. gj! --MZMcBride (talk) 01:59, 4 May 2011 (UTC)

More like 2600, I guess. Additional info available here. --MZMcBride (talk) 02:17, 4 May 2011 (UTC) 👍 Like I liked this page. Killiondude (talk) 05:44, 4 May 2011 (UTC)

 Dislike you. --Closedmouth (talk) 05:45, 4 May 2011 (UTC)

Bio

Hey, I'm currently writing a bio, and am not sure i'm doing it all correctly, as it's my first post. Is there any way you could take a look at it and help me with formatting? --Downsadie (talk) 03:11, 28 April 2011 (UTC)

Thanks, do I post that at the top of the one I wrote in my userspace (before I move it live)? Also, can I only link other pages to it once it's live? Last question: How do I add a picture? Is that another thing that can only be done once live? Thanks!--Downsadie (talk) 18:54, 4 May 2011 (UTC)

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Thank you for stopping to contribute to my page. Let me know if I can ever return the favor. willis4play (talk) 15:58, 4 May 2011 (UTC)

Thank You!

Thank You! GaneshBhakt (talk) —Preceding undated comment added 16:04, 5 May 2011 (UTC).

Just a heads up

Hi. :) The issue of the above user's image uploads was raised at ANI today, and I'm afraid that I am in disagreement with you about the usability of the copyright license here, as it seems to preclude derivative works by requiring that the material be "reproduced accurately". Since I see now that you had expressed an opinion at his user page, I wanted to let you know that the images are now at PUF: here. --Moonriddengirl (talk) 12:15, 9 May 2011 (UTC)

Crap. Sorry for the mess :( --Closedmouth (talk) 16:06, 9 May 2011 (UTC)
Oh, it's an understandable first impression. :) I've just encountered the accurate reproduction issue before. --Moonriddengirl (talk) 17:00, 9 May 2011 (UTC)

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Ok, I'm sorry...:'( — Preceding unsigned comment added by DymlaBuchye (talk • contribs) 16:20, 27 May 2011 (UTC)

Nomination for deletion of Template:English

Template:English has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the template's entry on the Templates for discussion page. Colonies Chris (talk) 13:47, 28 May 2011 (UTC)

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Facepalm

Re [4] - my bad, thanks for fixing that. I am not sure what I was thinking there. - 2/0 (cont.) 22:22, 4 June 2011 (UTC)

No problem, happens all the time. --Closedmouth (talk) 06:57, 5 June 2011 (UTC)

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