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Thank you

Thank you for your comments at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents#Puppetmaster Mattisse repeatedly removing puppetmaster tag, as well as you kind edit comment when you protected the userpage. I wasn't aware of the conversation going at the admin notice board at the time, but from this comment confirm my fears that Mattisse was in a perilous position. I really do believe that Mattisse is a good editor. Makes mistakes sometimes in edits, but given the volume of contributions, that is to be expected. Thanks again. --BostonMA ^talk 12:27, 19 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

A tip o' the hat to you. Your handling of the Mattisse issue was quite classy. Cheers, TenOfAllTrades(talk) 13:48, 19 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

WP:RFA/Cynical

Thank you for contributing to my RFA. Unfortunately it failed (final tally 26/17/3). As a result of the concerns raised in my RFA, I intend to undergo coaching, get involved in the welcoming committee and try to further improve the quality of my contributions to AFD and RFA. All the best. Cynical 14:58, 19 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Help in moving category

hey Nish, Is there any way you can use your admin powers to move this category Category:String theory physicists to Category:String theorists. I don't think i can do it --Ageo020 (Talk • Contribs) 17:04, 19 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Trivia Cleanup status and notes

Well, the project is slowly growing. But the category for too much trivia usually grows at an alarming rate, then goes back down. Upon investigation, people have been vandalising (some of the time at least) and removing the tag with no reason at all, even though the trivia is clearly still too long. I'm getting pretty sick of having to make an extra long edit summary to try to explain too much trivia to people. I don't think it's the same user everytime, so there doesn't seem to be a simple solution to the trivia tag removers. RobJ1981 23:13, 19 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Hmm...if you have the usernames or IP addresses of some of these vandals, I can deal with the situation. Also, I'm sorry I haven't gotten around to actually doing any trivia stuff. I'm busy in real life, and all I do on Wikipedia is repetitive tasks that don't require too much attention. Nishkid64 23:18, 19 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Wikipedia:WikiProject Trivia Clean Up is now the official place for it. A userbox for user pages for members should be made. I don't know how to make one though. I need help on the main page as well, I'm not sure what else to put there. RobJ1981 18:50, 20 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Dave Lozo

dude, you have to give it time. i'm very notable. plus, i know lots of livingston high grads. do you know harris bornstein? or devra bornstein? come on. you have to let it grow my friend!

love,

dave

I'm still at LHS, and I never heard of any of those people. Anyway, you're not notable. Case closed lol...If you do become notable, then an article will be created, but not just yet. And by notability, I mean on an international, regional or national scale. Nishkid64 23:34, 19 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Advice for a friend

Hi, Sorry to bother you. Could you please take a look at this and give your honest opinions. Thanks --BostonMA ^talk 23:49, 19 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Honestly, I think Mattisse quite enjoyed the situation. He (i'm assuming here) started to talk to other people, just trying to attract attention to the whole situation when he himself said he reverted the edits because he had some private information on his user page. You basically summed up my motive behind protecting the user page. You can see by the protection comment I made, that I had only good intentions, and that I did not want someone to see Cyde's comments and immediately act upon it. Also, Cyde is probably one of the higher up admins, and I would assume he has a good deal of experience and seniority here. Nishkid64 00:04, 20 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks. Yes I know you were acting with good intentions. I guess what I was hoping for was for you to say to Mattisse that things might have turned out very badly, for example, if you had not intervened in a positive way. Of course, say that only if you believe it is true. Thanks again. Sincerely --BostonMA ^talk 00:11, 20 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Well it is true. Things could have been much worse had I not intervened. I wasn't exactly sure what you meant by "honest opinion" on your response, so I just told you what I thought of your comment. Nishkid64 00:16, 20 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks. --BostonMA ^talk 00:18, 20 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Sorry mate

Was my fault. My edit linked to the deletion log (which is no longer existant) - however the link still had the phone number. If I had just removed it would still be in the history. Hope thats ok Glen 04:15, 20 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

MCB's RfA

Ta, Nish, I'll adjust my !vote accordingly. :) riana_dzast a 04:46, 20 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks

Many thanks for your support on my RfA, kind comments, and offer for help. Hopefully, I'll be able to figure stuff out. — TKD::Talk 09:38, 20 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Well, it officially closed, and at a flattering 38/0/0 at that. Thanks again for your support. I appreciate your trust, and will do my best to uphold it. Don't hesitate to let me know if you ever need anything. — TKD::Talk 05:33, 21 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Portal:Iceland

Hi Nish. I've noticed that you've been working with portals. So I thought that maybe you would like to know that I've just created Portal:Iceland. I know that most people aren't very interested in that particular country, but anyway I would like to invite you to have a look. Feel free to contribute whenever you (if you ever) wish. :-) Best regards.--Húsönd 00:31, 21 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for your collaboration. :-) By the way, I think that you deserve this:

		The Business and Economics Barnstar
		I award you The Business and Economics Barnstar for your excellent work on Portal:Business and Economics. Best regards. Húsönd 02:01, 21 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

You're welcome. :-)
BTW Nish, I just reverted your formatting edit to Portal:Iceland, as it causes some disruption when displayed on smaller screens (especially the Biography section, for its picture is quite large and squeezing it into a smaller space results in an undesirable compression/split of the text next to it). If you are using a large screen, please inform about eventual disruptions/odd visualization the current format may cause. Ideally, the portal should be built while viewing through different sized screens at the same time, in order to prevent undesirable effects.--Húsönd 17:49, 21 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks. :-) The picture looks fine on my screen after your change.--Húsönd 18:08, 21 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Muchas gracias

Hey Nishkid, thanks a lot for supporting me in my recent RfA. It succeeded, and I am very grateful to all of you. If you ever need help with anything, please don't hesitate to ask. Also, feel free point out any mistakes I make! Thanks again, —Khoi khoi 04:01, 21 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I actually do have some. :-) Could you briefly look over my admin actions so far and please let me know if any of them could possibly be out-of-line? Bonaparte is a banned user, along with Mywayyy. Is this a possible "abuse of admin powers"? I'd just like to know these things so I don't get into any trouble Thanks! —Khoi khoi 23:23, 21 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

You're doing a great job so far! I noticed that you're big on the 24-hour block, hehe. Anyway, I didn't check all the block logs of those guys, but I just wanted to tell you that I usually do 31-hour block for 1st offense, 48-hr or 72-hour for second offense, and so on. If it is an unshared repeatedly blocked IP vandal, then I'd block him/her for multiple weeks or months. Also, the Lake Iznik thing is perfectly fine. I would have done it just by manually fixing it, but it doesn't matter. You only get in trouble if you did something really bad, or really stupid lol. Also, try to be civil to other users that you may block or get into conflicts with. That's usually where other admins have faltered over time, and in some occasions, serious consequences have resulted. Just keep up what you have been doing, and you'll be just fine. And remember...I'm always willing to lend a hand to a friend. =) Nishkid64 23:37, 21 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks! I'll do 31 hours from now on. I figured I didn't need to warn him since he was banned anyways (see WP:LOBU). As for Lake İznik, I was referring to the fact that I had to delete the redirect to make way for the move (you knew that, right?). I couldn't manually fix it because the redirect had categories in it. Also, I'll take your advice and make sure to be careful. :-)

One more question: when should I hand out indef. blocks? When an account is only used for vandalism & trolling is it ok? BTW, when I see the "block user" page, there are two boxes to check - "Block anonymous users only" and "Prevent account creation". Can you provide some more info into what they mean exactly? Thanks again, —Khoi khoi 23:50, 21 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I haven't myself done any page moves like yours so I might be getting this mixed up...but... I meant that you did not have to do a page move there. You could have just moved the content from Lake Ascansus to Lake Iznik, and then created redirect on Ascansus. If there were categories, you could also manually move those too. Well, if you're lazy then you can delete =).

Also, if you want to, you can go harder on the bans for sockpuppetry. You can make them somewhere between 2 days and one week.

Okay, for indef blocks, you can hand those out to sockpuppets, vandalism-only accounts, trolling, etc. When banning indef, put the indefblock tag on the user page. If the user has not had any edits made to the user talk, then add indefblock there too. If the user has, you can either remove all convos and add indefblock, or add vandalblock to the bottom of the page.

Regarding those two options. "Block anonymous users only" is used when blocking IP users. I recently dealt with a case in which I blocked a school IP for a period of 48 hours, but there was one user who wanted to go on his Wikipedia account at school. The problem was that I didn't check off "block anonymous users only", so as a result, anyone operating from that IP, registered or not, could not edit. So, I had to unblock, and then reblock with that box checked off, and then the registered user was allowed to edit again at school. "Prevent account creation" is the default checked box, and it means that a person from that IP address can not make a new account from that address. It just basically prevents an abusive IP user from making a vandalism-only account. Nishkid64 00:07, 22 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

If I did that then it would destroy the edit history of the page. :-) Thanks again for the above advice, however. I recently blocked (indef.) Fuck! at the Wikipedia, WoW! at the Wheels, and Vandal! at the Blocked. I didn't check the 1st box but I checked the 2nd (maybe that was default). Was this the right thing to do? Also, is it necessary to put {{indefblockeduser}} on their userpages? —Khoi khoi 00:56, 22 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

2nd button is default, first is optional. So you did the right thing with the indefblocks. I suggest you add indefblock tags to userpages just so it is easier to actually know. Avoid indefblock tags for pages that are advertising. (There was a user with the an admin's phone number yesterday, so I added the tag, but another admin deleted the page to avoid attracting attention).

Done! —Khoi khoi 01:05, 22 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Happy Diwali!!!

Hi this is Sushant. Wish you and your family a very happy, prosperous and safe Deepawali Sushant gupta 06:02, 21 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Happy Diwali

Happy Diwai

This is just Sea dog .M.S wishing you a very happy Diwali. Have a great day.

Another Diwali greeting!

Happy Diwali from BostonMA ^talk 12:51, 21 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

My very best to you and your family! Happy and prosperous New Year! Rama's arrow 22:05, 21 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

The lighted path

I wish you All The Best on the ocasion of the Indian festival of light, Diwali. I am sure that the light of hope, confidence, and all positive attributes shall always remain inside you – lighting your path and guiding you to attain higher and higher levels of excellence in all your endevours! All the best! --Bhadani 16:47, 21 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Vandalism on Middlesborough

Thank you for the comment on my user page. YOU are completely and utterly out of order!!! Before firing off stupid warnings I suggest you take time to look at the facts. I don't know where you are from, but if you're from the UK you might know that Middlesbrough did indeed feature in the well-known publication mentioned. Crap Towns has its own article and lists many UK towns. A number of these have references back to the article. So did Middlesbrough - briefly - and it will again. Think First! I would have expected more from an Admin. Arcturus 21:06, 21 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

OK - no problem - put a line through the above if you like (I don't know how to do that foramtting), or delete it. Cheers, Arcturus 21:12, 21 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Dear fellow Editor

I Sea dog .M.S am inviting you to edit my quote page. I do understand that you are very busy in the Wiki but I would greatly appreciate you editing the quote page. If you decide to edit the page please follow the rules you see inside.
Sinceraly yours,

Sea dog .M.S 21:11, 21 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for editing my quote page, that was very kind.--Sea dog .M.S 01:56, 22 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

User talk deletion

From the note the user left, it looked like they really just wanted recognition for being a vandal, I guess I took a bit of DENY into play there to see how it would work -- Tawker 23:33, 21 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Freepository article deletion - please explain

The deletion log indicates that this user account recently (in fact within a few seconds of the posting) deleted an article called Freepository about freepository.com, a free & open source hosting site. If in fact you [[ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Nishkid64 |Nishkid64 ]] deleted the article, would you please explain the reasoning behind this action?

It a) was encylopeadic in writing style, b) not an adverstisement (the site is used freely by thousands of university students every day, c) contained no copyright-infringing material, d) was not nonsensical, and e) all content was verifiable (the article included links to existing Wikipedia articles and two external links.

In the parenthetical citation for the deletion, CSD A7: Unremarkable people/groups was cited. As stated in the article (and verifiable), Freepository is today used by thousands of software developers around the globe daily. It is often compared to Sourceforge, and is a reference site in the [[ http://www.ibiblio.org/fosphost/versions/exhost0.03.htm | FOSHosting ]] page at ibiblio, and is referenced in other Wikipedia articles. How exactly is this unremarkable?

Under what published, objective criteria was the article deleted?

Thanks in advance,

John Minnihan

The last editor to the page tagged the article as db-web, citing its Alexa Web Traffic Ranking. If you go to Alexa.com and search Freepository, you get a web traffic ranking of 4,449,067. This definitely fails WP:WEB criteria. If you do a Google search, you get only 11,900 hits. If you look at "What links here", you see that the article was only linked to one other article. All this led to my decision to delete the article. I doubt that Freepository really handles that many accounts when it has that low of a Alexa ranking, and I also doubt that it really is compared to SourceForge at all. SourceForge is ranked #88 on Alexa, and Google generates nearly 80,000,000 hits for "SourceForge". How does 4,449,067 compare with 88? How does 80,000,000 compare with 11,900? Upon reviewing all these items, I still believe the article was correctly deleted. Nishkid64 13:07, 22 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for your reply. There are two factual and/or logical errors in the approach you've outlined:

1. Freepository and Sourceforge are either compared, listed together or discussed on 1340 pages (Google 8:15am MST 22-Oct-2006).

2. Freepository's usage as a source control tool - on a daily basis - is via sserver traffic that isn't measured by Alexa, or any of the other traffic sites. By our internal measures (not externally verifiable), there is approximately 8 times more direct traffic to the site via sserver connections than https (all traffic is either sserver or https, http is immediately redirected to https so that no tranmission of source code goes across the wire in clear-text). Freepository manages over 12,000 very active projects for engineers worldwide, the majority of whom access the service via a direct sserver connection.

Trusting Alexa's ratings is widely disputed in general, so citing Alexa rankings as a factor in making a speedy delete decision is unsound. See [[ http://cyber-knowledge.net/blog/2006/10/19/alexa-amazons-most-flawed-idea/ | Alexa - Amazon's Most Flawed Idea ]] for one example of the analysis of Alexa, and conclusions about its usefulness.

May I suggest you take a look at the paper that was cited in the original article - [[ http://www.ibiblio.org/fosphost/eval_fosphost090.pdf | Construction of an Evaluation Model for

Free/Open Source Project Hosting Sites, Haggen Hau Heng So, RMIT Univeristy ]] to learn more about the FOSHosting. Becoming more well-inforemd on this topic will allow you to make better editing decisions. "Doubt" as you express above, especially when it can be easily and immediately muted, should at a minimum place the article as a Candidate for Deletion, subject to the 5 day review.

I am challenging the Speedy Delete Decision.

John Minnihan

Happy Diwali

Happy Diwali to you too. Hope you had a bright and colourful diwali. Thank you for your wishes. Jisha C J 02:25, 22 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for your message. It is great to meet a new Wikipedian on Diwali (or the day after). Gizza^Chat ^© 04:02, 22 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Happy Diwali

HAPPY DIWALI !!! to you and your family.

By the way, if you are interested, you can join this project.

--N R S | ^T/_M\^B 05:10, 22 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Wish you a very happy Diwali! utcursch | talk 07:52, 22 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

My RfA

Hello Nishkid! Thank you for comments and wishes related to my recently concluded Indian RfA. I hope I live up to the confidence you have shown. I'm still exploring the new tools, so feel free to point out of any mistakes on my part. I certainly will ping you in case I need advice. Belated Diwali greetings to you and your loved onces. Thanks again! --thunderboltz^(Deepu) 07:47, 22 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

hi - please help

Please help me in preventing the vandalism on the Template:Castes and Tribes of the Punjab. There has been non-stop vandalism of that template for the last 2 months with the Jat clans being deleted by anon 82.37.198.177 he kept on vandalising. I do not have the expertise you have (as I am very inexperienced) can you please do me 2 favours (I would be really greatful) can you pratrol this template and get this anon blocked. As you are expert on wikipedia it would take you minutes to do due to his consistent vandalism he has been warned many times, you can see on his anon talk page. Please help!--Indian50 08:58, 22 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I blocked the user for one week, and I hope that will prevent them from coming back and vandalising. I'm not totally familiar with the subject area, but I have seen that many of the contributing edits to the page were done by established editors. So, I have decided to semi-protect the page from vandalism by anons and new users. Nishkid64 13:20, 22 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Happy Diwali!

Thank you and a happy Diwali to you too! --May the Force be with you! Shr e shth91 13:36, 22 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]