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User talk:166.109.124.231

Would it be OK if you or I tried unblocking this IP address, it has been blocked for the better part of two years? It was part of a list I initiated a discussion about here. Thanks, –xeno (talk) 18:31, 24 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

No objection here. — Ocatecir ^T 20:51, 24 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

cheers, I'll keep an eye on it. –xeno (talk) 21:36, 24 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Requesting unprotection of Mount Carmel High School, (San Diego, California)

[Mount Carmel High School (San_Diego, California)] has been protected indefinitely since November 2008 due to vandalism. That seems quite a heave handed step for a page that is vandalized maybe once ever 2 months (like most high school wiki pages are). In the mean time, constructive edits are also blocked.

Since you were the admin who initiated the protection, can Mt. Carmel High School be unblocked so that even registered users can edit it? I need to make a constructive change (Bobby Lee did not go to Mt. Carmel, since according to http://www.signonsandiego.com/uniontrib/20040917/news_lz1c17bobby.html he went to rival Poway High School, and needs to be removed from alumni.) and am prevented from doing so by your block. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Mbarrien (talk • contribs) 15:49, 26 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

The page is only edit protected from unregistered and newly registered users. After you have been registered for a few days you may edit it.— Ocatecir ^T 05:11, 27 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

My user account, although mostly inactive since I like editing anonymously, has been registered for over 6 months (at least September 2008 when I last made edits while logged in). The article may be over protected, or my user account may have issues. I see you've made the edits (thanks!), but I still argue that Mt. Carmel High School's article should have the protection reduced, if not removed altogether. Mbarrien (talk) 22:44, 30 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Once you reach 10 edits your account will be autoconfirmed. I'm not going to unprotect it because the page attracts a high level of vandalism when unprotected. This does not affect the qualtiy of the page as high quality additions rarely come from anonymous IPs. Once a user takes the time to register and understand the rules of wikipedia the quality of their posts increases. — Ocatecir ^T 14:19, 1 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Rancho Bernardo High School

Regarding Rancho Bernardo High School, the alumni should be alphabetized and Tom DeLonge did go there. Why would you undo my edit? Donmike10 (talk) 18:56, 14 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Because they were unsourced additions. Please review WP:CITE.— Ocatecir ^T 19:20, 15 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Slightly Stoopid

I'm a fan of Slightly Stoopid and to be completely transparent, I'm an intern for Silverback Artist Mangement. I'm also a musician myself and understand how these pages and help one's careers. It seems that the content on the slightly stoopid pages is a bit lacking (as well as the other artists managed by Silverback) and I was hoping you might be able to help me improve the content for these artist. I mean, Silverback isn't even on the slightly stoopid article and we manage them, haha. Anything you can do to help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance, and I hope this reaches you in good spirits!

Kindest Regards,

Will B.

Wikipedia has standards, specifically regarding notability, sourcing, and most notably in your case, conflict of interest. While this may preclude you from improving hte article, it doesn't mean someone else can't. It ust needs to conform to wikipedia's standards if it is to last. Cheers, — Ocatecir ^T 13:13, 25 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for writing back. Do you have any suggestions to people who might be able to help me out? I definitely would not want to violate any Wiki standards, as I am a fan of Wikipedia and would prefer to keep the content consistent with organizational guidelines. Any advice or suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!

Here you go: Editors who may have a conflict of interest. — Ocatecir ^T 06:34, 26 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

List of CKY Crew members

Hi

You protected this page back in January 2008 - please can you now unprotect it for a while? I'd like to add some tags and remove some non-notables. Thanks. 58.8.4.113 (talk) 16:51, 18 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

If you register you'll be able to edit it.— Ocatecir ^T 04:55, 19 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

2 girls 1 cup

I've proposed that this article and its talk page, which you semiprotected in December 2007 and June 2008 respectively, might be unprotected and watched with great vigilance to see if the problem has gone away. --TS 22:41, 4 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks. Since you've been so adventurous, you may as well go ahead and unprotect the article's talk page, too! --TS 21:22, 7 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Ehren McGhehey

Same routine as before. I've started a review of the semiprotection of this article which was only semiprotected, apparently, because of the release of Jackass 2.5 in late 2007. See talk:Ehren McGhehey --TS 04:39, 9 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

See also Talk:Preston Lacy. Another semiprotection review. --TS 13:36, 14 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Ditto Jackass: The Game and Jackass: The Movie. --TS 16:52, 14 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Ditto talk:Minghags: The Movie. --TS 10:49, 15 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Ditto Talk:Jackass (TV series). --TS 10:40, 28 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Ditto talk:Dillon Freasier. --TS 03:54, 1 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Delta Force

Until you have a source stating that what Beckwith described as the training process, stop changing it. As an admin, I'd expect you to have a stronger grasp of WP:V. Also, don't blindly revert another good-faith editor without explanation; I would have hoped you also had a better understanding of our policy against edit-warring. Not to mention your inappropriate use of the rollback button. Parsecboy (talk) 11:14, 16 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I respond to most of these attacks on your talk page, but I will point out that that I did provide an explanation on the talk page, so it was not a blind revert, you just failed to check. — Ocatecir ^T 02:17, 17 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Hi, I'm a friend of Parsec's. Without looking at what is in dispute (I'm lazy ;-), can I suggest soliciting outside opinions from WT:MILHIST? Sometimes an uninvolved editor who has knowledge of the topic can come in and provide good thoughts without needing [{WP:DR]] or arbitration. Just my two cents. Cheers, —Ed (talk • contribs) 03:23, 17 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I welcome all opinions, but I don't feel like the source of this is lack of knowledge on the subject but a question of being as accurate as possible given the sources and of blind reversion without thought on how the section can be improved. As far as going to a project for arbitration, my experience with wiki projects is that there is sometimes a compulsion to defend the project's articles from outsiders, so I would rather go the normal process for dispute resolution by neutral editors. — Ocatecir ^T 03:34, 17 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

What reason do you have to believe that the training process has changed significantly from that described by those sources? Parsecboy (talk) 08:27, 17 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

The fact that almost 30 years have passed makes it irrelevant whether or not it has actually changed or not (though it most certainly has had to). The fact is, with such outdated sources, it is not honest or accurate to sell them as supporting what the present days selection is like. No one can purport to know what the selection is like today because it is highly guarded so no sources will likely exist describing modern-day methods. The text as it is written hurts Wikipedia's credibility and is putting out misinformation by definitively stating that's what the current selection entails. If you notice all I'm advocating is a change of language to reflect what it has been described as in the past based on the sources we DO have, instead definitively asserting what it looks like today. — Ocatecir ^T 17:05, 17 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Actually, on another glance, many of the statements about what SFOD-D looks like today are supporting by these 20-30 year old accounts, so this needs to be applied to the entire article. I think an article rewrite is in order. If you aren't willing to help me I will do it myself. — Ocatecir ^T 17:10, 17 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Here's the problem, Ocatecir. You think the material is out of date, given that it was published 20-30 years ago. Fine. You feel it is reasonable to assume much has changed in those years. Fine. Do we write articles based on what we think is reasonable? No. We write them based on the sources at hand. If you want to change some of the wording so that it is very clear to the reader that the information we're using is 20-30 years old, and may be out of date, that's fine, but you can't go so far as to label it explicitly as historical without a source stating as much. Parsecboy (talk) 21:57, 22 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Fair enough, I have no problem with changing the word "historical", so long as it reflects the fact that the accounts we are quoting describe the selection process in it's first few evolutions (Haney's was the third ever OTC). Why couldnt we have had this discussion in the first place without a blanket revert? — Ocatecir ^T 02:39, 23 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

RBHS Redirect Page

Hey Ocatecir, I just wanted to bring to your attention that the redirect page, RBHS, which is protected indefinitely by you, should also redirect to Rock Bridge High School, since both schools have oppressively long names, and the same initials. Thanks, MWLXVC (talk) 15:19, 14 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]

RfD nomination of Libra (Academic Search)

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Requesting unprotection of Rancho Bernardo High School

Semi-protection of Rancho Bernardo High School was supposed to expire in March 2009, almost 2 1/2 years ago and almost 3 years since you protected it. In fact, looking at the edit history, I removed the protection template 6 months ago thinking it had fully expired. Keeping the page locked down this long for the small possibility of manageable vandalism is a bit much. Since you are the administrator who added the protection, I'd like to request unprotection of the page to allow anonymous users to edit it. 76.102.151.192 (talk) 00:34, 6 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Unprotecting RBHS, convert to disambiguation page

Thank you for unprotecting Rancho Bernardo High School. I would similarly like to request unprotection of the "RBHS" redirection page, so that it can be converted into a disambiguation page. You are the protecting admin for that page too. The disambiguation would be for Rock Bridge High School, as requested on your user talk page 1 1/2 years ago, a request that was never acted upon.

Also note that the indefinite protection is also preventing disambiguation that would also apply to Red Bank High School, Riverside Brookfield High School, Ross Beatty Junior/Senior High School, Red Bluff High School, Roanoke-Benson High School and Red Bay High School, Rainier Beach High School (Seattle, Washington), Roger Bacon High School as well as possibly Redondo Beach Historical Society, and Rehoboth Beach Historical Society.

Mbarrien (talk) 09:33, 13 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]

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Flexible response

Hi there Ocatecir. Just to let you know, I've unprotected Flexible response - I don't think we'll have any more problems with vandalism anymore. If you have any problems with it, just reprotect. All the best, Ryan Postlethwaite^{See the mess I've created or let's have banter} 23:00, 27 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]

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Request for comment

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Happy adminship anniversary!

Wishing Ocatecir a very happy adminship anniversary on behalf of the Wikipedia Birthday Committee! Anastasia [Missionedit] (talk) 04:03, 27 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Rajkumar Kanagasingam

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A new user right for New Page Patrollers

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Thirteen Years of Adminship!

Wishing Ocatecir a very happy adminship anniversary on behalf of the Wikipedia Birthday Committee! Chris Troutman (talk) 21:15, 27 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]

THIRTEEN YEARS WOOOOOHOOOOOO! Drmies (talk) 21:42, 27 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Happy Adminship Anniversary!

Have a very happy adminship anniversary on your special day!

Best wishes, CAPTAIN RAJU^(T) 22:15, 27 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Mark Sanders / Mark A Sanders

Looking for page about make Sanders (Strida bike designer) Noticed you deleted it > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Axis77a Why ? there seems to be plenty of notable work even from the link in page above.

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Proposed deletion of Loomis Fall

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Administrators will no longer be autopatrolled

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How we will see unregistered users

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Thank you. /Johan (WMF)

18:13, 4 January 2022 (UTC)

New administrator activity requirement

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Happy Adminship Anniversary!

Happy Adminship

from the Birthday Committee

Wishing Ocatecir a very happy adminship anniversary on behalf of the Wikipedia Birthday Committee!

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Happy Adminship Anniversary!

Have a Happy Adminship Anniversary!

Hey there Ocatecir, I'd like to wish you a happy adminship anniversary! Congratulations on your special day, and thank you for all the contributions you've made.

𝕸𝖗 𝕽𝖊𝖆𝖉𝖎𝖓𝖌 𝕿𝖚𝖗𝖙𝖑𝖊 🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦 (talk) 18:04, 27 May 2022 (UTC) On behalf of the Birthday Committee[reply]

15 years! 𝕸𝖗 𝕽𝖊𝖆𝖉𝖎𝖓𝖌 𝕿𝖚𝖗𝖙𝖑𝖊 🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦 (talk) 18:04, 27 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Pending suspension of administrative permissions due to inactivity

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Imminent suspension of administrative permissions due to inactivity

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+Inactive administrators are encouraged to engage with the project in earnest rather than to make token edits to avoid loss of administrative permissions. Resources and support for re-engaging with the project are available at [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Editor Retention/administrators]]. If you do not intend to re-engage with the project in the foreseeable future, please consider voluntarily resigning your administrative permissions by making a request at [[Wikipedia:Bureaucrats' noticeboard|the bureaucrats' noticeboard]].
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