User talk:Mets501/Archive 5
Semi-protection of 2006 Israel-Lebanon conflictHi Mets501, I noticed that you semi-protected 2006 Israel-Lebanon conflict at 02:34 UTC and then removed it one minute later. This article, which is probably one of the most read right now, was semi-protected for several weeks, which enabled the registered users to largely reach a consensus and create a pretty good article. However, on 11 August the semi-protection was lifted by Cowman109 with the motivations "as it is a current event to allow casual editors to add to the article" and "Unprotected after four days as it's a current event". I can't see the logic of making the most hotly debated issues accessible for anon vandals because they want to play around, while the fairly anonymous news portal is permanently locked for everyone except administrators. Anyway, immediately after that semi-protection was lifted, the vandals moved in and the responsible editors are constantly busy reverting their insertions. It's bad enough trying to sort out the mess caused by a few very POV users who registered only three-four days ago. So, could you possibly reconsider and slap the semi-protection on for 3-4 days again? Thanks Thomas Blomberg 19:41, 15 August 2006 (UTC) 158-152-12-77I made a new section on ANI about this user. It looks like we both edited AIV at the same time, so my edit summary saying that I personally wouldn't block a longtime editor in good standing was lost. Syrthiss 12:50, 16 August 2006 (UTC) User talk:Tess TickleUser talk:Tess Tickle if you view the talk page, you can see this user has a 'how to' listed on making VB6 virii and hacking html Guest books. Since it's on a talk page I didn't want to mess with it but contact an admin right away to deal with it. --Brian (How am I doing?) 14:55, 16 August 2006 (UTC)
RE: TypoHehe - no problem. Sorry for giving you a superfluous "new messages" bar. :) —Celestianpower háblame 15:02, 16 August 2006 (UTC) Block of User:ShockwsaHi, I got an edit conflict when trying to comment on that, and since you seem to have already blocked him I'm leaving it here. His edits aren't really false (read the rest of the article or do a google news search), they're just strongly worded, POV pushy and partly original research. I don't think it's a case of blatant vandalism though, but if you feel differently, just let the block stand. - Bobet 15:11, 16 August 2006 (UTC) james kitchingplease explain why you deleted the 2 images accompanying this article - and in future kindly discuss the matter before such peremptory action Paul venter 16:02, 16 August 2006 (UTC) New SubCatagory or leave alone?Just wanted your input really quick on this. I have been editing and caretaking the Notable YouTube users article however the more I think about it, the more I believe it should probably be a catagory instead of a page. All the people listed are notable for their fame derived from youtube, and the page is really only there for people who have articles on Wikipedia already, so right now there really isn't a difference between this and a subcatagory under the parent YouTube catagory. Obviously the users are notable or they wouldn't have a Wikipedia article...so the page is fairly pointless as I view it now. What do you think? I have reviewed all the catagory FAQ and articles but am still confused on how to create a subcatagory to link these user pages together...and how do I remove the 'notable' page once the subcatagory is made? Very confused. Sorry to take up your time --Brian (How am I doing?) 18:16, 16 August 2006 (UTC)
I swear this is the last thing I will bug you with today.Mets, I really appreciate the help with the Catagory earlier and I know you are probaby getting sick of talking to me but a few quick things I could use your help with. Here[1] is a redirect discussion that pretty much was ended by this conversion. Since you are an admin, perhaps there is a way to close it? I also have a Request for Comment/mediation for the YouTube article but am still waiting for an admin to reply. Talk:YouTube#Request_for_Comment:_Section_with_information_on_how_to_download_videos_from_YouTube I don't know how admins handle it but I wanted to end this before tempers became too heated and an edit war continued. I followed the process but still am waiting for a response. --Brian (How am I doing?) 19:22, 16 August 2006 (UTC) Blocked, for no reasonWhy the hell have you blocked me? I haven’t done anything wrong, I’m sorry but I think you’ve got the wrong person! I don’t appreciate being blocked for no real reason, just because I edit under a certain IP address, doesn’t mean I’m always guilty, if Wikipedia is going to continue to let people edit their pages, their going to have to something about the policy!!! 202.6.138.35 07:18, 17 August 2006 (UTC) Who do you think you are?Who do you think you are? You just semi-protected the Marked Cards page against vandalism, right? If you took your time to read the recent edits you would have seen that I was just removing blatant self-promotion and spam. Expertmagician who is listing so-called Ultra Luminous marked cards and Juice Dust is not really making a contribution. Those are not real card-marking systems, by any stretch of imagination. They are just brand names for his own products that he sells on his web site (and can only be purchased from him through his web site) http://marked-cards.com (and his web site is also listed, by him, as a link at the bottom of the Marked Cards page). It is because of "contributors" like him that misinformation gets published on Wikipedia, and it is because of "editors" like yourself that this misinformation is allowed to stay on Wikipedia. You think you are doing the work a favor by playing cop and semi-protecting pages without really looking into what it is all about. I have made a few attempts to remove this self promotion and spam from the Marked Cards page, but Expertmagician (who used to "contribute" anonymously under IP 69.117.150.243) keeps putting his spam back. I personally don't care if Wikipedia is full of misinformation. What do I care? It is not my site. I can think of better things to do with my time, than trying to edit some stupid pages on some dysfunctional site. How can a site like Wikipedia possibly have correct information when any schmuck with an internet connection can feel free to make a contribution? Deletion of David WittCould you restore and nominate it for Wikipedia:Articles for Deletion. I don't think that was resolved yet. Hello32020 14:18, 17 August 2006 (UTC)
Arkansas congressional districts speedy deletionsI noticed that you speedied this series of articles after I tagged them with {{tl:hangon}}. Here is the text of my comment on the talk page that I was not able to post due to your deletion:
First, I really don't appreciate not having the oppportunity to give a reason prior to the deletion. Secondly, could you give me some information as to the salient points of the process that I apparently do not understand, given my reasoning stated above. Thanks. --G1076 14:26, 17 August 2006 (UTC)
Just a quick favorI was just stopping in to see how you are doing and ask if you could take a look at an AfD discussion. I normally would never ask for an AfD to have a semiprotect on it however I think this one may. Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/StereoKiller. The reason is it turns out to be like a myspace knock-off and the users are flooding over here disrupting the discussion. I won't post the things they are saying just to keep your userpage clean. Thanks a million --Brian (How am I doing?) 14:46, 17 August 2006 (UTC)
David Witt on deletion reviewAn editor has asked for a deletion review of David Witt. Since you closed the deletion discussion for (or speedy-deleted) this article, your reasons on how or why you did so will be greatly appreciated in the above review. Hello32020 14:56, 17 August 2006 (UTC) Thanks for helping with this article (semi-protection). See edits by user Khompat, IP 129.125.7.116, user Tuleeprabaht. I think they may be the same. Khompat keeps putting his fac comments at the top and slandering legit editors. Please investigate and advise/take action on this. Thanks for helping.Rlevse 16:09, 17 August 2006 (UTC)
deleting AmericartHi Mets501, I see you deleted the entry I put in for Americart. But there are several other similar ones out there, such as X-Cart and Zen Cart. Also, there are plenty of other businesses which have entries on Wikipedia. Is there something I should do so that the entry doesn't get deleted? Thanks, lthomas Card Marking PageAugust 17, 2006 (1:43 PM EST) - Thank you so much for locking the card marking page because the same person keeps on making changes and I am tired of fixing his updates in order to maintain technical accuracy and completeness of the content. Magically yours, Jeff Paul Arnott and copyright problemsHi - I had to revert one of this user's new pages today for copyvio problems - he copied Karen Carpenter's bio straight from the Internet Movie Database. I saw the long string of copyvio warnings and the 24hr block you gave him on 8/14, so I thought I'd let you know he's at it again. I also put a note at ANI so he'd get widespread notice this time, 'cause he certainly seems determined. Let me know if you have questions - Baseball,Baby! balls•strikes 21:20, 17 August 2006 (UTC) Your Profile PageI think your front page is just killer! I'm trying to spruce mines up, but as it is now...rather pithy. Is there a template that's available to users so that I might be able to create one like yours? P.S. You guys are a shoo-in for the playoffs (no jinx meant, tough news about Martinez though...). Hope my A's will meet you in the Series! --Banpei 05:03, 18 August 2006 (UTC)
EmmalinaMets, I don't know how to handle this so I thought I would ask your opinion. A person on YouTube whom I think of as a friend has had someone posting her personal information (home address, phone numbers, private pictures) on the Wikipedia page here. Emmalina. While a protect would be nice, the problem is that this is now in the cached history. I was wondering if there was a way to save her article on a sandbox, delete the 'real' one and then recreate it from the saved sandbox copy, erasing the history and protecting her information? --Brian (How am I doing?) 06:37, 18 August 2006 (UTC) Semi-protectionsRecently, at my request, you semi-protected some pages due to recent vandalism. Now, those vandals are attacking two other, related pages: Choujuu Sentai Liveman and Kamen Rider BLACK. Could you take a look into possibly semi-protecting them? Thanks. jgp TC 08:58, 18 August 2006 (UTC)
To unlock the semi-protected pageHi, Can you please unlock the marked Cards page? I notice that you were the admin who protected Apollo moon landing hoax; could you perhaps do the same for What happened on the Moon? I suppose we could try just warning or blocking the IP address that is doing it, but I suspect the page will end up with the same sort of problems as the main hoax page. --Brianyoumans 20:17, 18 August 2006 (UTC)
moonwho the fuck are you to revert w/o expln?
Dear "admin", FYI, contrary to your suggestions, I have no intentions to make any arguments with the likes of individuals who had asked for your assistance in helping them to obliterate the validity of the document by posting their nonsense AND allowing them to keep it there without a good reason, while a legitimate edit was reverted by you without a timely explanation. I kindly request that no similar and/or relevant actions on your part are to be exercised, as such acts undermine credibility of your objectivity as an administrator. Respectfully, user# B5322 Sock Puppet???You recently blocked 202.6.138.34. I am fairly certain this is a sock for the infamous Jackp. He's got a few other socks around: Jfp-24 and Movie-lover93 and Jfpearce. He's a real disruptive pain in the you-know-where. I noticed you temporarily blocked this URL. Can only mods block people (ie, are you a mod) or can all editors do this? Hope you can help. Cheers. Merbabu 13:40, 19 August 2006 (UTC) admin tagTHANKS! I missed that when editing the user page! My mistake! Big OOPS! --Brian (How am I doing?) 15:57, 19 August 2006 (UTC) Help with User:Displaced BritDisplaced Brit (talk · contribs) has made personal attacks and has continued to stalk me. I am in fear of retaliation for this call for help, so I am editing this anonymously in hopes he won't find out and jump on me for this. --CFIF ☎ (as an anon IP) 19 August 2006
Chavez botGlad you've decided to pick up the accents on Chavez, but that has permanently messed up all the references, since most of the newspaper articles and other references did not have accents :-) No way to fix it now, but please stop. This work has to be done manually. Sandy 19:15, 19 August 2006 (UTC)
I can't think of others right now, but I'll keep an eye open and let you know. I checked all the articles on my watchlist, and found one other messed up image (can't remember where), but more importantly, I didn't find any actual corrections needed, rather accents introduced to the refs, so I reverted those. It seems we're doing a pretty good job on the accents after all! Sandy 20:00, 19 August 2006 (UTC)
Bot trialsNormally bot trials are for a week, although the approver can specifiy explicit times or edit caps. If nothing was stated, it's pretty much open ended. Regarless of anythign else, without a bot flag being set you should never edit faster then 2-3edits/min, to prevent flooding of recent changes. Generaly you should not be editing large (1000's) ammounts of articles while in trials either. — xaosflux Talk 22:40, 19 August 2006 (UTC) Oral SexThanksRsm99833 03:34, 20 August 2006 (UTC) Semi-protect on FreemasonryHi Mets501... You recently put a much needed semi-protection lock on Freemasonry. Unfortunately, it does not look like the lock actually worked. A new user was able to edit after you had supposedly protected the page. Could you check that and make sure that the page is indeed semi-protected? Thanks Blueboar 14:14, 20 August 2006 (UTC)
Re:SpringeraghI'm sorry, my connection lapsed. —$ΡЯΙNGεrαgђ (-¢|ε|Ŀ|T|♪-) 15:09, 20 August 2006 (UTC) The new links seem to be working most of the time, but are failing for pages with spaces in their names, we fixed this elsewhere before, just cant remmeber where, any clues? — xaosflux Talk 16:08, 20 August 2006 (UTC)
Semi-Protection of DogToday (21 August) you unprotected the Dog article -- and I thoroughly understand your reasons for doing so. However, in the short (6 hours) time since, 4 reversions have been necessary. I note that SlimVirgin re-protected the article on the 12 August after unprotecting it on the 8 August, due explicitly to the number of anon vandalisms. Please reprotect the article ASAP -- I will of course place the appropriate request on the protection page. Please reply on this page rather than mine. Gordon | Talk, 21 August 2006 @08:05 UTC
Incomplete bot moveMets501, This move [9] is incomplete. It should be
Please reply on this talk page. Thanks, Rfrisbietalk 14:00, 21 August 2006 (UTC)
Rfrisbietalk 14:24, 21 August 2006 (UTC) Vandal taggingHi there: thank you, I did know that, and normally do it correctly. The one you have picked up on was an oversight.--Anthony.bradbury 14:06, 21 August 2006 (UTC) Mehrdad NikoonahadOn the Mehrdad Nikoonahad article you removed the image, after i had reuploaded and included appropriate and valid source info. Just wondered what was wrong with it! Thanks :]! Sorry for the accidental revert of your revert, there. We were both trying to fix the same thing at the same time. I've put the article back as it was, and reported the user to AIV. Blocked now, I see. --MichaelMaggs 18:20, 21 August 2006 (UTC) Erroneous indefblock templateHello Mets501. You placed {{indefblock}} on Sockpuppet of vandal's userpage (and an equivalent on their talk page), but didn't block them. I assume that was a mistake. ;) // [admin] Pathoschild (talk/map) 03:07, 22 August 2006 (UTC) Not quite VandalismI've been looking at User:132.205.93.88 - who seems to be going around doing some very confusing changes, removing PROD, adding PROD, adding inppropriate tags to articles being considered for deletion. It's not clear and obvious vandalism, but ends up confusing the edit logs for articles. I reverted a couple, but he just posted on my talk page, since I mistyped a warning tag. --Brat32 03:25, 22 August 2006 (UTC) Signpost updated for August 21st
You are receiving this message because you have signed up for the Signpost spamlist. If you wish to stop receiving these messages, simply remove your name from the list. Ralbot 04:18, 22 August 2006 (UTC) AutoblockNah, no autoblock, Mets501. BTW... you're a good admin! --TheM62Manchester 12:28, 22 August 2006 (UTC) Glad you like the smiley. Will you help me on some WikiProjects?? what Projects are you taking part in?? --TheM62Manchester 12:30, 22 August 2006 (UTC)
Flagging down adminsThanks for the headsup. If I looked at AfD's more than a few days past freshness, I'd probably see they're all closed. Didn't think of it. I know some are relisted if there's not much discussion, but I didn't know if some slip through the cracks considering 100-200 per day. I knew about WP:AN but not WP:LOA, so thanks for that too! TransUtopian 15:31, 22 August 2006 (UTC) Three AFD's may have slipped throughI posted this on the Admin notice board but not sure how long that will take. Anyway, just a heads up that Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Manatee meat, Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/ModTheSims2, and Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Bitweaver2 have all been open for seven days now while other AfDs around them have closed. They haven't been relisted for consenus or posted to in a while. Could an admin take a look and make a call (relist, no consenus, delete or keep)? Thanks --Brian (How am I doing?) 16:05, 22 August 2006 (UTC) ThanksThanks for letting me know that. I had no clue I was doing that. By the way, do you have to be in Esperanza to have a userpage fixed? Thanks
Displaced Brit is backAnd he's decided to file a nice little RfC against me. CFIF ☎ 02:09, 23 August 2006 (UTC) Tywright back to removing informationAs previously reported at AN/I, Tywright (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · nuke contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log) is back to removing information on the Charlie Crist and Tom Gallagher pages after being warned multiple times, I think a block may be necessary. Maybe an indefblock for being a vandalism-only account would work. --CFIF ☎ 12:38, 23 August 2006 (UTC) My RfA
Semi-protection: 2006 israel-lebanon conflictResponse needed immediatly Fox News being readded as combatant several times Other IP vandalism Hello32020 15:19, 23 August 2006 (UTC) Please unprotect. This is being discuses in #wikipedia-en. Thank you. 203.217.83.31 16:17, 23 August 2006 (UTC) |
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