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Why did you delete Tsutsu's user talk page? A user talk page not being edited for a month is no reason to remove someone's talk page. What does "Temporary Wikipedian" mean? Why do you think he is only a Temporary Wikipedian? Angela.09:33, 1 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Please see CAT:TEMP. It is a category filled mostly with usernames that violate WP:USERNAME and are blocked indefinitely - templates such as {{UsernameBlocked}} and {{indefblockeduser}} automatically put pages in this category. Such pages are not of any use to Wikipedia. Also, as far as I know, such pages are also indexed by Google (which is bad, I think - we wouldn't want such pages to turn up in searches) and deleting them prevents the search engine from doing so. Oh, and it's not "pages belonging to temporary Wikipedians", but rather "Wikipedians' temporary pages". Misza1313:01, 1 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]
yea, you blocked our whole system ( about 60 computers) from editing posts that have typo's or rude coments. I feel that it is unfair that you block 500 good students from ones stupid actions, also, this stops my own private account from editing.
thank you,
dave (D.Doer)
19:04, 1 December 2006 (UTC)
First, I have no idea what IP range are you talking about. Second, I can't find any autoblocks in my log, which is not at all surprising, because all standard IP blocks I give are anonymous only and thus allow for registered users to edit via the IPs. Could you be more specific? Misza1319:41, 1 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Prasi90
Hello, I was looking through your talk page for the request that you delete the user pages for Prasi90. I can't find that specific request. Could you direct me to it? Thanks. Regards, Hamster Sandwich20:04, 1 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks for unblocking me. I am on a BT ADSL line so I cannot comprehend why these autoblocks keep affecting me. I wonder whether to contact BT and see if they can sort it out. Thanks again. ><RichardΩ612ER19:20, 3 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]
I have not edited a page that I have multiple messages for editing in error. I'm sorry, I not extremely verse in Wikipedia protocol, but I'm positive I've never seen this page or edited it. Your message was the first where I could navigate to a talk page. I don't care too much about the block, I've only ever edited maybe 1 article, I just wanted to let you know that this was an error that I keep getting messaged about.
Thank you. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 68.216.50.57 (talk • contribs) 19:57, 15 December 2006 (UTC).[reply]
You have put yourself as interested in helping out atWikiProject on user warnings. We are now at a stage where we are creating the new templates and are wondering if you are still interested? If so please visit the overview page and choose a warning type you wish to work on. There is a base template available here, which you can copy and use to get you started. Have a look through the redirects and see what old templates are affected and incorporate them into the the new system. Anyway, any questions please don't hesitate to give me a shout. Regards Khukri(talk . contribs)08:53, 17 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Annie Mae Leonard Mitcham
A topic is notable if it has been the subject of multiple, non-trivial published works whose sources are independent of the subject itself.
Annie Mae Mitcham is very well known Throughout Central GA as an educator for the under privileged. She has been the subject of multiple, non-trivial published works whose sources are independent of her which qualifies for inclusion according to the rules.
There are several entries in this media that are far less notable and news worthy than this subject.
No problem. It's a part of Wikiquette and also a step in the TfD process to notify the creator of a template of the discussion. Миша1313:02, 19 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]
I'm not sure what's wrong, especially since it seems to have been working in the past. Have you suddenly switched to a different web browser or something similar? Миша1310:22, 19 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]
statusRegExp = /&action=edit&newstatus=(.*)/;
status = statusRegExp.exec(location.href)[1];
- some regular expressions that parse the address & extract the new status being set. It works fine in Mozilla-based browsers, but for as long as I can remember there were problems with JS regular expressions in IE and I haven't figured a workaround yet. Миша1308:19, 20 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]
John Bryan Robinson
I unblocked John Bryan Robinson (talk·contribs). You blocked this account today apparently because of a violation of the username policy but this violation was not clear to me. Given the speed with which the account was blocked, I believe you may have slipped and hit the wrong button or something. I've done this plenty of times. Anyway, please feel free to reblock if the block was actually legitimate. It is not my intention to engage in a wheel war with you. --Yamla20:47, 19 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]
No slipped button there. You may not be familiar, but "John <<second name>> Robinson" is a pattern followed by a certain vandal, whose modus operandi (now that such usernames get blocked on sight) is to abuse the {{unblock}} template on his talk page (investigate User_talk:John_Parry_Robinson, User_talk:John_Arwel_Robinson and User talk:John David Robinson for the few of some 20 by now examples), claiming he's User:Hephaestos and other nonsense. I didn't go into lengths investigating the user's earlier "crimes", but such usernames are now blocked immediately, pending verification (or talkpage salting in case of a recurring pattern). Миша1320:59, 19 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Hey -- you speedy deleted this while I was in the process of declining the speedy request. I think the notability of the person is clearly explained -- a teacher's union rep convicted on Child porn charges, with published sources backing it up (it arguably even meets WP:BIO, let alone the bare "claim of significance" needed for CSD A7. I was going to take it to AfD, because I feel that having an article like this that can only be negative about its subject needs a very good rationale, and some borderline notable case like this should be deleted per WP:BLP concerns, but I know that's a somewhat controversial stand. Anyway, if you still feel deleting it with no further debate is okay, I won't complain, but I think it might be better to debate the issue. Mangojuicetalk18:21, 20 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Sorry, but I hardly find a mere fact of being convicted a "claim of significance". Also, neither of the "source" links seem to me as "media coverage", but if you contest the speedy deletion, let's see what discussion it generates. Feel free to nominate. Миша1318:30, 20 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Hello. I notice you were able to quickly restore BigDTs talk page minus the abusive edit summary. Is there a faster way to do this than what I was trying to do - which was manually clicking all 270 checkboxes individually. Thanks. -- No Guru18:54, 22 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Yes, there is at least one super-speedy way. There is a lot of nice code to be found on User:Voice of All/UsefulJS - among others the "Admin only JS", which, again among others, adds a tab named "Select all" when browsing deleted history of a page. Needless to say, it ticks all boxes with just one click. :-) Миша1319:08, 22 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Not normal (what's normal on Wikipedia anyway?), but did he vandalise except that edit? Was warned for that edit and seems to be an otherwise regular contributor. Миша1319:14, 22 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Since except the one edit to Ice Cube I haven't found any other disruptive edits, I'll leave the user be for now, especially when seems to be contributing to the encyclopedia. If his userpage bothers you (I'm close to neutral on it), you may ask him directly to change/soften it. Just let me know if he picks up the line of hate & vandalism in articles or towards others; then I'll react accordingly. You may also ask other administrators for an opinion on WP:AN. Миша1319:46, 22 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]
I think the reason the backlog tag was restored wasn't because of the one image that remained, but because of the categories of images that remained (i.e. images with no copyright, images with no fair use rationale, etc.). I assume that's why Zsinj (talk·contribs) readded the tag. Metros23220:28, 22 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Yeah, but I'm at the same time in the progress of redesigning the whole process. I have, for example, noticed I'm sometimes deleting a user page and leaving the corresponding talk (or vice versa) because the're not categorized. For start, on this run, I'm logging whenever the "mirror" page existed (will have a semi-manual run through them later on). In future, I'm planning on sucking the entire CAT:TEMP (pages with contents and timestamps) into a mysql db, running some analysis on them and then proceeding to the proper deletion run. Миша1323:30, 22 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]
I thought you weren't meant to judge people by their edit count... ;). I can see the sense in what you're saying, but I remember being welcomed when I first signed up, before I'd even edited. It gave me the confidence I needed to start doing things, and an opening for finding out how to both use and edit Wikipedia, when the Help portal was much harder to understand. —Vanderdecken∴ ∫ξφ17:39, 23 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]
It didn't. The vote passed by 255 to 18, but the MediaWiki developers refuse to implement it, because they hate us – Gurch23:20, 23 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]
merry Winterval(s)!!!! (12-22-06)
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It certainly won't discourage on simple type of vandalism: WTF IN HELL? OH NVM, JUST BLANK THE WHOLE DAMN THING! And I found it out on some technical discussion related to usernames containing this character. They cannot be created anymore, but apparently cannot be blocked either. o.O This means problems in cases of usernames that are reversed usernames of established users, i.e. selaW obmiJ becomes (or at least looks like) Jimbo Wales if the character is prepended to it, although it's an entirely different user. Миша1320:24, 24 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]
What can I do to make Annie Mae Leonard Mitcham's entry acceptable for this site? —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Mitchamz (talk • contribs) 22:13, 28 December 2006.
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Hi Misza, I just started this discussion on WP:HD - I noticed something very strange in my editbox display when having a look at your user page in edit mode (I didn't actually edit anything, just wanted to see what code/template you used for the "evaluate this edit" section). Hope you don't mind me using your userpage as an example for that discussion :P -- Ferkelparadeπ15:58, 30 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Just a geeky joke on my side & I'm glad to see you fell for it. :-D Technical explanation on WP:HD. And the core of the "vandalism box" is pretty simple, really: {{Special:Recentchanges/1}} (change 1 to more for more edits), plus some <div>s to hide the headers that Special:Recentchanges is producing by default. Миша1316:12, 30 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]
