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Archive: November 15, 2005

List of minerals (complete)

What did you have in mind? The cleanup tag could be interpreted in many ways. Please post your suggestions on the talk there (preferred) or just answer here. Vsmith 12:07, 15 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]

(vandalism counter)

Perhaps you didn't understand my joke when you rerverted Rhymeless's page , but technically it had been vandalized six times (the joke was that by vandalazing the page and increasing the vandalized counter, i was technically still keeping it correct, so there was no need to revert it back. get it?) So, your revert was actually incorrect :) 66.75.49.213 05:01, 16 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]

MediaWiki:Protectpage

The change you made to that particular MediaWiki page now has a bug submitted for it. [1] Thanks for catching that. --AllyUnion (talk) 10:24, 16 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks

Thanks for supporting me for adminship. The RfA passed today. I look forward to working with you to make Wikipedia a better place. --Nlu 04:12, 19 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you!

Hi Ixfd64,

Thank you very much for your support on my RfA. I was both surprised and delighted about the amount of support votes and all the kind words! If I can ever help with anything or if you have any comments about my actions as an admin, please let me know! Regards, JoanneB 14:45, 21 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks

Hey, thanks for clearing up that nonsense on my userpage. I see you're a new admin, but you wield your mop like a trained old hand!--Pharos 08:49, 22 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]

RuneScape cheats call for help, article nominated for deletion

Please comment on the talk page of RuneScape cheats, it is being called 'illegal information', pov and instructional, it's going to be deleted if I can't get some help on the talk page. Jonathan888 (talk) 15:35, 22 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]

MONGO RfA

Thank you for your support on my RfA. I'll do my best to not let you down. Thanks again!--MONGO 03:37, 23 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Sean Black RfA

Thank you very much for your support of my RfA. Thanks, in part, to you, I am now an Administrator, and I pledge to use my newfound powers for good rather than evil. Thanks again!--Sean|Black 08:13, 26 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for letting me know

I see what you're talking about here... ya, I saw a blanking, and ran with it. Thanks for letting me know, I'll strikeout my warning on the user's talk ;] --негіднийлють (Reply|Spam Me!*) 05:03, 30 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]

That was weird. The wiki err'ed 3x, and it posted my message 3x. repaired! --негіднийлють (Reply|Spam Me!*) 05:16, 30 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Hola

Could you please help me understand how to revert a pic that has been vandalized?...all I know what to do is deleting the whole pic... Rosameliamartinez 07:05, 1 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Someone has already taught me how to do this...don't worry ;D Rosameliamartinez 07:16, 1 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you!

Appreciate the revert...at least they weren't threatening to kill me this time!--MONGO 08:30, 1 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Unblocking Santa vandal

Thanks for unblocking my Santa vandal. I just blocked the IP until I could find out what I needed to do about a Willy impersonator. I checked the IP and saw that it was dynamic. I was going to unblock and reblock for a shorter time, but you beat me to it. Thanks. -- Psy guy Talk 00:05, 2 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

FYI : Singapore

Hi Danny,

Singapore (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) has been re-protected for another 48 hours in further anticipation of Australian anger and vandalism over Van Tuong Nguyen.

When it cools down we'll see how additions can be made to the article about him.

This message is purely for your information only, no further follow-up is needed. (unless you may have 2nd thoughts, in which feel free to let me know.)

- Cheers, Mailer Diablo 11:38, 2 December 2005 (UTC) :)[reply]

Is/are

Hiya,

Technically the correct one is is not are. Defamation is singular, even when used with all, so it is removed. If it read defamations then it would be are, but it is a small point. FearÉIREANN\(caint) 03:00, 3 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Mindmatrix scam adminship

I have recently been granted greater access to your systems, and can begin the process of salvaging the sensitive information from my politically unstable land, as I promised. Please accept this loonie as a token of faith that I will conduct myself as required to complete our transaction. Thank you for your support. Mindmatrix 20:29, 4 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

What's with numeric user blocking?

On the block log, I keep seeing things like User:#12345. How can I resolve that to see which actual user has been blocked? (I'm trying to research a user that claims he's being unfairly blocked). Also, some blocks show up as "autoblocked"; how does that work, and what kind of audit trail is there to see why someone would be autoblocked? (The admin listed as the blocker didn't show any recent contribs that would explain the block). Lunkwill 00:33, 7 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

  • When a registered account is blocked, any IPs used by that account will also be blocked. However, there is a policy that disallows the disclosure of IPs used by registered accounts, except in special circumstances. That's why the actual IP is not displayed. Unfortunately, the auto-blocked IPs are not recorded in the block log, so it can be pretty difficult to match such IPs with the blocked accounts. --Ixfd64 00:41, 7 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]
    • Oh, so you're saying that if User:lunkwill was blocked, and then I logged out and tried to edit, the log would say User:#12345 was blocked, because it didn't want to reveal my IP address? (But when I see User:123.45.67.89, it's because an anon vandal is being blocked?) Lunkwill 00:55, 7 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]
That is correct. --Ixfd64 02:33, 7 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]


John Bon Jovi

One of the username policies is "no using the names of celebrities". If this is actually Jon Bon Jovi, that's a different matter. But I doubt it is. DS 00:52, 7 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Bypass redirects

Hi, I don't think we should bypass redirects, as it's of little value (both get to the same page), and it clutters up the Wikicode. For example, [[SHA-1]] is easier to read than [[SHA hash functions|SHA-1]]. There are quite a few benefits from keeping the WikiCode as clean and simple as possible. — Matt Crypto 10:37, 8 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

TfD nomination of Template:Tsd

Template:Tsd has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at Wikipedia:Templates for deletion#Template:Tsd. Thank you. I wanted to tell you because you created the template. --Wcquidditch | Talk 18:35, 9 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks

I just looked through my user page history and I realized you reverted a vandal I never even knew about. Thanks a lot for the help and sorry about the delay in response, I just realized it right now! Thanks again, JHMM13 (T | C) 02:20, 21 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

WikiGameGuides

  • Link to proposal on mailing list:
  • Naming suggestions: WikiGameGuides, Wikiguides
  • Domain name: games.wikimedia.org
  • Scope: video and computer games
  • Details: Basically, WikiGameGuides would be a collection for cheats and guides for video games. As we know, there are sites like GameFAQs, but many guides are heavily copyrighted, leaving very little room for open-content material. WikiGameGuides could change all that.
  • Potential supporters:
  • Relevant links: GameFAQs, Open Game FAQs, Gameinfo

Hello, I am Ixfd64 from the English Wikipedia. I didn't feel like registering an account just to post this. Anyways, this is basically only my rough proposal. I don't know if it would be a good idea. Please leave comments on my Wikipedia talk page.

Comment: There is already something similar on Wikicities called Gameinfo. This currently aims to achieve that goal, albeit not being a sister project. There is also the similar Open Game FAQs. I'd support such a project of course but I'm not sure it's that necessary. Garrett 03:30, 3 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]

We have a b:Wikibooks:Games bookshelf and a b:Wikibooks:Computer and video games bookshelf at Wikibooks, and I believe that these qualify as non-fiction instructional resources for b:Wikibooks:What is Wikibooks. --Kernigh 22:13, 15 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]

MainPageIntro

Template:MainPageIntro is protected. Could you update it can point the 8 links to the Portal: space rather than the Category: space? Thanks. -- Fplay 00:50, 22 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Browsebar in MainPageIntro

Nice touch changing the categories to portals. The browsebar in use almost everywhere else on Wikipedia also includes Art and Philosophy. See template:browsebar. Could you update the browsebar in MainPageIntro to include these two portals? Thanks. Go for it! 04:29, 22 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

  • Unfortunately, adding those two links makes the main page introduction look too wide. I'll see what the other administrators have to say. Thanks for your suggestion! --Ixfd64 04:39, 22 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]
  • I've looked at the problem, and I think I have a solution. Also, maybe the browsebar could be standardized to the one being used on the rest of Wikipedia? Putting these 2 ideas together, the whole thing balances out quite nicely. I've worked up a couple slight layout modifications for you to look at: Main Page New2 Main Page New. Put them in seperate windows and switch between them to see which one you like best. Notice the small margin change on the Main Page markups; the rest of the changes are in the MainPageIntro templates. Go for it! 07:04, 24 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

User boxes

You should add this userbox to your user page!

Code Result
{{User cal}}
File:Cal-logo.gif
This user attends the University of California, Berkeley.

--Arabani 06:14, 24 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Unblocking old blocks

User:Википедия будет коммунизм was blocked on October 11 by two separate admins (not including myself) [2] as a "Wikipedia is Communism" sockpuppet (in Russian, literally: "Wikipedia will be Communism"). As you can see from the link, very adequate reasons were given in the block summaries.

For some reason, Special:Ipblocklist has a bug that truncates display of non-ASCII usernames, so this was truncated to "User:Википедия будет комму" in the Ipblocklist listing. Perhaps the name is stored inefficiently as &#NNNN; sequences, with each Cyrillic letter therefore taking 7 bytes, or some similar explanation.

Today for some reason you decided to unblock this user [3]. The unblock shows up with the truncated name, although there is no such user with the truncated name. What you appear to have accomplished instead was unblocking User:Википедия будет коммунизм, because the block for this user no longer shows up for October 11 2005 in the Special:Ipblocklist listing.

I'm not sure exactly how you managed to do this, but what you ended up doing was unblocking a bona-fide vandal sockpuppet that was originally blocked months ago with very clear edit summaries. I'm not sure why you imagined it was necessary to do so. Unblocking and reblocking old blocks is merely not very productive; however unblocking old blocks and not reblocking them can be positively harmful. If you understood Russian you wouldn't have unblocked even the truncated version, and if you don't understand Russian why are you unblocking what you don't understand? -- Curps 05:56, 26 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]


You also unblocked User:Flushvul [4]and others on the grounds that you found nothing in the log files or contributions. There are various possible reason that this could happen. For instance such a user could have engaged in article creation vandalism and all their created articles got speedily deleted, leaving no contributions behind (it would be nice if the software showed such contributions to deleted articles, but it doesn't). Similarly, they may have done image vandalism and the uploaded image (or the specific version of an image) got deleted.

Or in this case, the original block message by User:Brian0918 mentions Jimmy Wales vandalism. As you know that page has suffered edit summary vandalism, with Jimbo's personal information (phone number and address) appearing with a nasty message about raping babies. The developers have responded to this by removing such edits from the database: they no longer show up in the article's history or in the user's contributions. This is probably what happened here, an exceptional case.

Again, in the absence of any complaint from the blocked users, why was it necessary to unblock? And why do so without even consulting Brian0918 first? Your unblock summary says "let me know if I'm missing something", but you didn't actively make inquiries, and what guarantee is there that Brian0918 will ever see it there? -- Curps 06:19, 26 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

One more: you forgot to reblock User:Jake Remington!!!! (I have now done so). -- Curps 06:35, 26 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

  • I apologize for the misunderstanding. However, I would like to see the developers fix the MediaWiki software so that similar things do not happen again. I have also checked for deleted edits using Kate's Tool, but nothing came up. I guess that it was because the developers had removed the edits completely from the database. I personally don't think that it was a good idea, as it makes it harder to keep track of what the vandals have done. Also, due to recent changes in the policies, the feature on Kate's Tool for checking deleted edits has been removed. I think that administrators should have an internal tool for checking users' deleted edits. I also think that there should be a log for showing permanent deletions of edits by developers. --Ixfd64 01:09, 27 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

RuneScape Items to "RuneScape items"

What is the point of this? Does a capital "I" on the word "items" offend you? Reversing the link, as several links are currently broken thanks to your edit.Mike 07:55, 4 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

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