User talk:Ck lostsword/Archive/Archive 5

My recent RfA

Thanks for your support in my recent, unsuccessful RfA. It's much appreciated. IvoShandor 16:17, 14 June 2007 (UTC)

Your an admin.

Congrats on becoming an admin! Politics rule 16:09, 17 June 2007 (UTC)

You're an Admin!

It is my pleasure to inform you that you are now an admin. Congratulations. You can feel free to do everything you're supposed to do and nothing you're not supposed to do. If you haven't already, now is the time look through the Wikipedia:Administrators' how-to guide and Wikipedia:Administrators' reading list. If you have any questions, feel free to ask me, or at the Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard. -- Cecropia 16:54, 17 June 2007 (UTC)

Congrats

Congrats on becoming an admin! Good luck:)--†Sir James Paul† 17:27, 17 June 2007 (UTC)

RfA

Congratulations on becoming the 1250th Admin! (By the way, I still have 2 GCSEs left - Stats and RE (Buddhism)) Stwalkerster talk 17:49, 17 June 2007 (UTC)

Fine, so far, but I thought the AQA modular maths paper 1 was a nasty one! The rest have been fine though. What about you? Stwalkerster talk 18:04, 17 June 2007 (UTC)

Yeah congrats! Politics rule 18:57, 17 June 2007 (UTC)

Woo, congrats! -- G1ggy ^Talk/_Contribs 22:00, 17 June 2007 (UTC)

Congratulations, i know you'll make a fine admin. Black Harry (T|C) (Go Red Sox!) 23:35, 17 June 2007 (UTC)

Congratulations --wpktsfs 00:38, 18 June 2007 (UTC)

Yay!! Congratulations. Good luck :) Peacent 01:49, 18 June 2007 (UTC)

Very well done mate. Good luck in future -- Anonymous Dissident^Talk -- (dated 08:18, 18 June 2007 UTC)

Congratulations. Here are what pass for words of wisdom from the puppy:

Remember you will always protect the wrong version. Remember you must always follow the rules, except for when you ignore them. You will always pick the wrong one to do. (See #5) Remember to assume good faith and not bite. Remember that when you are applying these principles most diligently, you are probably dealing with a troll. Use the block ability sparingly. Enjoy the insults you receive when you do block. Remember when you make these errors, someone will be more than happy to point them out to you in dazzling clarity and descriptive terminology. and finally, Remember to contact me if you ever need assistance, and I will do what I am able. KillerChihuahua?!?

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User talk page protection

Can you please protect User talk:82.195.156.186? IP is abusing the unblock template. Momusufan 19:44, 17 June 2007 (UTC)

And congrats on becoming the newest admin! Momusufan 19:57, 17 June 2007 (UTC)

My sig / Your RfA - Cheers !

Wotcha! Well done with your RfA - press the buttons wisely! And you're welcome to the code on the sig - and BIG thanks for the acknowledgement! Happy editing, and see you around! Pedro |  Chat  20:22, 17 June 2007 (UTC)

Please put semi-protection on my userpage and talk page

I would like to have my Userpage and my Usertalk page semi-protected to stop IP's from making edits to them. User:Momusufan and User talk:Momusufan. Thanks. Momusufan 22:16, 17 June 2007 (UTC)

I just noticed that User:Vicissidude tried to report me for those edits to Offshoring. Obviously he is the same as User:24.17.42.210. I don't know why he is making a big deal about this. Thanks for noticing his "bad faith" report. Momusufan 23:06, 17 June 2007 (UTC)

Zokkko

Hi, I noticed you blocked this user for a day. This user vandalised the same pages (with the same image) as Killacat who was blocked indef a few minutes earlier. Anyway, Zokkko got banned for a day, but is that enough when he's obviously a sockpuppet/meatpuppet? Spellcast 15:28, 18 June 2007 (UTC)

Wow these people just don't give up. There's evidently another sockpuppet (Zocker) whose re-uploaded the same image deleted a few minutes ago and has targeted the same page. Spellcast 15:53, 18 June 2007 (UTC)

Deletion of a add to a page

hi, im just writing here to put why do you think that a certain edit I made to June 18 you found unconstructive or along the guuidelines of that how do you fing it to be that I think it's quite a good edit and because you deleted this picked up on this why havent you gone to September 17 and delete the add about an album that was released.

You blocked that guy unfairly

You're so full of shit. All that guy said was he wasn't vandalizing the page when he reverted it after I did. All I did was see the guy help me out so your block was bullshit TV2007 01:48, 20 June 2007 (UTC)

Please see this person's other contributions and see what you think. *sigh* -Ebyabe 02:01, 20 June 2007 (UTC)

Sorry, but user TV2007 is right. You shouldn't have blocked him and all I might just help the two other editors because I am sure they will want to complain about you. Also, Ebyabe stop causing shit. You're the reason why they're both pissed ExcellentEditor 10:53, 20 June 2007 (UTC)

STOP BLOCKING PEOPLE UNFAIRLY AND CALLING THINGS THAT AREN'T THREATS, THREATS, AND MAYBE YOU WON'T BE TREATED UNCIVILLY. YOU'RE PISSING ME OFF. DEAL WITH IT, BITCH ExcellentEditor 11:07, 20 June 2007 (UTC)

Congrats, you're obviously using the tools well :P G1ggy ^Talk/_Contribs 23:22, 20 June 2007 (UTC)

Thank you ExcellentEditor :) TV2007 10:47, 21 June 2007 (UTC)

question

• What's involved in looking into the {{spa}} aspect of these accounts for possible socks? Lsi john 13:27, 21 June 2007 (UTC)

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Vandal

Hello mate - like your sig. Ha Ha ! Can you look at User:Testacate Massive and substantial vandalism to various music related pages. Looks like an IP (one which vandalised his page and was just blocked by you) might actually be the same person. In all the confusion I took Testacate to test 4 before I noticed the user was not active today. However vandal only and very offensive user page. Your thoughts ? Pedro |  Chat  10:30, 20 June 2007 (UTC)

Thanks my man. I was going to remove my warnings, but it looks like he went on a largely undetected rampage yesterday. Coupled with his user page an indef. block seems the only choice. Guess the buttons do come in handy then! One of these days I might ask for them too.... Pedro |  Chat  10:36, 20 June 2007 (UTC)

Bugging you again

Hiya, I'm not going to haunt you honest!!! If you have a moment could you look here and at the draft article on the users main page. They already had this deleted once and I advised a re-write. I think it stands no chance, as it is really a blatant advert, but if you have a moment to make a comment it would be appreciated. Pedro |  Chat  11:47, 20 June 2007 (UTC)

Thanks. It was a real juggle of WP:AGF, WP:BITE and a healthy dose of WP:SPAM. The editor has decided not to post it (or her boss has!) so it's all good. Pedro |  Chat  20:42, 20 June 2007 (UTC)

Stop

About the fablehaven rocks thing, there are 3 people. fablehaven rocks is a guy named Chris, mrbsball825 is a guy names Justin and Crocsie is me, Tony. We were all on one article but then we got in a fight and split up, so please don't block our user pages! Crocsie 8:45 20 June 2007

Pesky Vandals

this is simply special! You can't beat informed comments can you! By the way, I'm on IE7 on a widescreen laptop and the formatting in the second box blows the line "Please leave any comments or questions on this page. I will reply on your talk page." across the table with your contents. In addition the contents box is tiny. I think {{User:Ck lostsword/Border|100|center}} may be the issue as it looks like it's setting the column to 100px. Pedro |  Chat  20:57, 20 June 2007 (UTC)

Pedro - RfA

Hey Ck. I recently offered to nominate Pedro, and he mentioned that you had mentioned this in passing too. If you'd like to co-nominate, I would be (and I think he would be) honored. If you don't show any opposition to this, I'll bring a link here when I've created the RfA page. G1ggy ^Talk/_Contribs 07:37, 21 June 2007 (UTC)

Avocent deleted

An editor has asked for a deletion review of Avocent. Since you closed the deletion discussion for this article or speedy-deleted it, you might want to participate in the deletion review. -- Austin Murphy 16:22, 21 June 2007 (UTC)

My userpage

Can I have indefinate semi protection on my Userpage? I don't want IP's messing up my page, in fact one did just now. Momusufan 18:07, 21 June 2007 (UTC)

Miley Stewart

Okay, so maybe i took like 5 edits to be completely done with the edit but you know why? cuz my computer's having problems and it automatcially close the internet explorer so i had to save it first and then continue!!!

71.63.51.42

I would like to disagree with you that I gave MORE than ample warning to this user on this and another IP (making the same changes). This user may have "stopped" for today, but this behaviour will continue. - NeutralHomer ^T:C 23:48, 21 June 2007 (UTC)

76.7.121.99

Thanks! He was getting just a tad annoying. Take Care....NeutralHomer ^T:C 09:53, 22 June 2007 (UTC)

It would be a good idea, only problem is, it would encompass all the TV stations on Wikipedia. From what I have read and heard, the IP user in question made the same edits as User:BenH and he pretty much went to all TV stations. If it would be possible to semi-protect all of them, then great....but I don't know if one admin can do that (then again, I learn alot here). Take Care....NeutralHomer ^T:C 10:20, 22 June 2007 (UTC)

To me the edits aren't that bad, but since he does this on every single page and stubs each and every single one, I guess it peevs some, so I revert what I can. I will keep an eye out to make sure he doesn't pop back up on another IP address. Take Care....NeutralHomer ^T:C 10:31, 22 June 2007 (UTC)

Many thanks:) Enjoy your Friday and Weekend. Take Care...NeutralHomer ^T:C 10:37, 22 June 2007 (UTC)

70.237.213.151

Thanks for responding to my block request - man that guy was prolific! I've just undone the rest of his vandalism, about 20 edits on 7 different articles. Wonder what his fascination with dog catchers is? AulaTPN 11:56, 22 June 2007 (UTC)

Your recent blocks

Hi Ck! Glad to see you enjoying your new tools :) Could I please request you to leave a rationale when you block accounts/IPs? This helps them later on if, say, it's a shared IP address, and they don't know what they've done wrong... reduces the angry e-mails we get an unblock-en :) Hope you're well! Riana (talk) 11:57, 22 June 2007 (UTC)

Not a problem... just one of those things to keep an eye on :) Riana (talk) 12:01, 22 June 2007 (UTC)

Vandalism

Please do a quick check on this IP: 75.82.254.154 They recently edited the article "Thousand Oaks High School" which you can see in their history. I'd leave them a nasty comment, but I figure it would be best if you were to handle it. Thanks.

Monday Sleeper deletion?

Hi there, you deleted my submitted page "Monday Sleeper", stating it wasn't notable enough. For future reference, I was wondering when an artist was considered "notable enough" to be eligible for inclusion on Wikipedia? Thanks mate, Crasp

Is this a better way?

I got your message about the Dodge Nitro page. I made another change. Is this better?

Thanks!

Thank you for your comments on my essay. I stand by my comments on protection, but having not been an administrator, it is difficult to understand how blocks are applied. I saw some accounts that were indef blocked immediately, and I assumed that they were the rule, not the exception. I plan to re-write the blocking part of the essay as a finish it.
However, I stand by what I said about protection. Yes, they can edit after 4 days with new account, but if we really are "the encyclopedia that anyone can edit" people would be able to edit "cheese" without waiting for 4 days.
Nonetheless, I appriciate all of your comments. I really mean that. Thanks again, and happy editing,
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User:Times-standard

Hi, I see you blocked this user, and rightly so. It appears however that he or she is now editing as 63.192.11.254. This diff in particular should be familiar. Thanks! --Butseriouslyfolks 23:23, 22 June 2007 (UTC)

AIV

Mean to report this IP instead of the other one there....VP reported the wrong one. Corpx 23:52, 22 June 2007 (UTC)

User:DavidYork71

Thanks for being so decisive. That's the first time I've taken it direct to vandalism noticeboard. Until now we've been playing the check user game, and playing by 3RR was useless since his socks of course didn't need to. cheers Merbabu 13:24, 23 June 2007 (UTC)

also: BustingTheCravenCabal (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log). ITAQALLAH 00:45, 24 June 2007 (UTC)

so i'm assuming it'd be a good idea to just take future cases to AIV? ITAQALLAH 01:01, 24 June 2007 (UTC)

If so, that's good news for everyone.Proabivouac 08:56, 24 June 2007 (UTC)

Tonight's sock is User:Flubird. Merbabu 10:50, 27 June 2007 (UTC)

Tonight there's definitely two so far:

• User:TheTathagataBuddha & User:BigDeeTee

and most likely a third who's playing around with my report of the two above: User:Superstew Merbabu 10:51, 3 July 2007 (UTC)

Xenophobia

Stop trolling please - a phobia is an irrational fear.

Heyas

I thought I would let you know, along with WP:AVI, that User:63.166.22.254 is back to his tricks on WHSV-TV. I started with a Warn2a and went up to a Warn4 which I just gave. No vandalism after that warning, but I am waiting. I will let WP:AVI know as well. Many thanks for your help...NeutralHomer ^T:C 23:57, 23 June 2007 (UTC)

I am not quite sure, I even checked yesterday during 5 and 5:30 (I live in range of WHSV) and made sure the guy really was still there and he was and there was no mention of him leaving and said "I will see you on Monday"....so it looks like he is there to stay. I think it is cool a guy who used to work for a Philadelphia station (WPHL) is working at a Harrisonburg, VA station:D But I will talk to them next time:) instead of immediately Warn2'ing them. - NeutralHomer ^T:C 00:10, 24 June 2007 (UTC)

I Found A Firearm On Wikipedia - Well An Article At Least

I was browsing random pages and came across this: M16A2 rifle. I'm not sure whether to classify it as a stub, search for an appropriate redirect page, or opt it for deletion. At present it's a one sentence orphan. What should be done with it? -WarthogDemon 00:17, 24 June 2007 (UTC)

Thanks. ^_^ Usually I can tell with articles, but my knowledge of guns are limited. (You point and shoot; my knowledge pretty much ends there.) Anyways, thanks for the tip. :) -WarthogDemon 00:33, 24 June 2007 (UTC)

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Thanks

Thanks for your time, I believe this all links back to the Barry ley (deleted) article & vandalism to the BJJ page. --Nate1481(^t/_c) 13:13, 26 June 2007 (UTC)

Good suggestion, done. Thanks again for the help --Nate1481(^t/_c) 08:28, 2 July 2007 (UTC)

Thank you

Thank you for the barnstar (my first one, yay!) much appreciated! ♦Tangerines BFC ♦·Talk 19:42, 26 June 2007 (UTC)

What he said. Thank you. - Dudesleeper · Talk 21:30, 26 June 2007 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Suspected sock puppets/Freya Worshiper

Since you indef-blocked Freya Worshiper, you are in an excellent position to evaluate two other users as her suspected sockpuppets. I intend to file a checkuser, but if you consider this a sufficiently obvious match, you may block them without a checkuser. Thank you. Shalom ^Hello 06:06, 29 June 2007 (UTC)

Thank you so much for your assistance in this, it is greatly appreciated. Lucky number 49 14:14, 29 June 2007 (UTC)

Iowa Pre-Flight Seahawks football teams

You recently deleted the pages of the 1942, 1943, and 1944 Iowa Pre-Flight Seahawks football teams, citing the content and then reasoning that "Iowa13 was the only contributor." I was confused by this. Is that a valid reason for an immediate deletion? I have done a lot of research on said teams and have cited every source I have used. I saved the code and have since recreated the articles under the assumption that there has been a misunderstanding. I am fairly new to Wikipedia, but I have picked it up quickly and I have a spotless record. I am only wondering why my pages were deleted.

AfDs

Please remember to add new entries to the TOP of the day's page, not the bottom. thanks. DES ^(talk) 02:01, 1 July 2007 (UTC)

Iowa Pre-Flight Seahawks football teams

Thanks for the explanation. Your reason is valid. My time has been limited recently, so I have not had time to expand the articles; however, I plan on doing so in the next few days. I will be adding much more information than that which is currently present. I would appreciate it if you would withdraw the deletion proposal for now and check the articles in several days' time: I can assure you that by then I will have added the additional information. Thanks!

Iowa Pre-Flight Seahawks football teams

I have also provided some temporary information on the talk pages of all three articles that will soon, along with much more information, be added to each article.

Deleted articles

I figured you had probably called it a night :-) This is the first time I've gone through this process, so I realize I've made a slight fool of myself in several ways. Sorry for that. Thanks for being patient.

More sockpuppetry?

I've noticed a user, Acookie, who I have evidence for being yet another sockpuppet of Freya_Worshiper. I don't suppose you have any advice on procedure for dealing with a suspected recurrence of sockpuppetry when the puppetmaster has already been blocked? Lucky number 49 15:53, 1 July 2007 (UTC)

Thanks for your help! Edits by Acookie here, here (line 53), and here match with Freya_Worshiper's pattern of attacking Christian sources as being false/deliberately harmful, and making deliberate mention of whether a source is Christian (compre here and here. Also, note that their userpage and discussion page suggest previous problems with other editors on wikipedia, despite the account having begun editing only today. I note that the last edit by the sockpuppet account Myth_Researcher was made four hours before the first edit by Acookie, linked above. Lucky number 49 17:17, 1 July 2007 (UTC)

My deepest gratitude to you both for your assistance in this matter, and your kind words. Lucky number 49 18:16, 1 July 2007 (UTC)

		The RickK Anti-Vandalism Barnstar
		For speedy and diligent assistance in dealing with the puppetmaster Freya Worshiper. Lucky number 49 18:16, 1 July 2007 (UTC)

Deleted articles

I actually did have them merged in the first place, but the length was an issue. I have a paragraph or so of information about each of the thirty-one games, which has not yet been added to each page (I plan on doing that either today or tomorrow). The length of the single article was much too long with this information. The vast majority of articles about individual teams (i.e. 2005 Texas Longhorns football team) include information about each game, often called "game notes" or "season". Once I've added the game information to each season page I could copy it into the main page, and we can decide if that would work, if you'd like.

Tomorrow, Monday (or today, depending on when you see this), I am out of town, so I will not be able to add game notes and postseason information to each article. Hopefully I will have this done later in the week. When that happens, I'll temporarily merge the articles and we can decide if that's the appropriate action to take. I'm leaving town next week, so I'm going to make sure we get it settled before then. Just a heads-up. Iowa13 BTW my user link is to my talk page, as I haven't set up my user page yet.

Ludovic Quistin

This one needs answers, I can't for the life of me figure out why the article on Ludovic Quistin who happens to be an international footballer with caps for his country has been deleted off, it annoys me like hell when things like this happen to peoples hard work and effort, whats the reason!!! Stew jones 01:32, 2 July 2007 (UTC)

EndUN Userbox

Hi, you recently participated in the Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/User:DieWeisseRose/Userboxes/EndUN discussion. I have reluctantly submitted the closing statement by User:Tony Sidaway for deletion review. Please consider taking a look at Wikipedia:Deletion_review/Log/2007_July_1#User:DieWeisseRose.2FUserboxes.2FEndUN. Thanks. --DieWeisseRose 19:53, 3 July 2007 (UTC)

Redirecting

Hi. I saw you were redirecting the user pages and user talks of Nate1481s impersonators to his pages. Is that really a good idea, doesn't that make matters more confused? Best wishes Pax:Vobiscum 10:18, 2 July 2007 (UTC)

I took the liberty of placing (blocked impersonator) templates on the pages instead, hope you don't mind. Pax:Vobiscum 10:55, 2 July 2007 (UTC)

Consistant Vandalism

I think its high time we got Nate 1481 banned for his consistant vandalism of anything he does not like or agree with. Wikipedia is for everybody. Not just for lonely individuals who want to jeopardise the good work of others. And its time to look at Nate´s sockpuppets too. I think we have all ignored the elephant in the room for quite long enough-

Iowa Pre-Flight

I have an odd request.. First, I decided that the four articles could become one, if I removed some unnecessary information, and re-formatted it a little. However, I am going to be leaving town early on Saturday, and I am very busy until then. I'm gone for a week or so after that. I won't have enough time to get much work done on the article until then, so it will be another two weeks or so until I can actually make significant progress. I don't want to leave the article(s) out there with little to no information for that long. Would it be possible for me to just scrap the articles and start over when I get back? I don't know if it's acceptable to leave articles mostly unfinished for a period of time like that, maybe it is. But if not, would there be a good solution? All I could think of was starting from scratch (it's getting to be kind of a mess). I wouldn't mind doing that at all. What do you think? Iowa13

My recent RfB

Thank you so much for your participation in my recent RfB. Though it closed with 72% support (below the required 90%), I'm still quite pleased at the outpouring of support shown by a fair percentage of the community.

I'm currently tabulating and calculating all opposing and neutral arguments to help me better address the community's concerns about my abilities as a bureaucrat. If you'd like, you can follow my progress (and/or provide additional suggestions) at User:EVula/admin/RfB notes. Thanks again! EVula // talk // ☯ // 04:39, 3 July 2007 (UTC)

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Iowa Pre-Flight

G7 sounds good. Go ahead and remove them. You'll have to delete the Pre-Flight categories too (Iowa Pre-Flight Seahawks football and Iowa Pre-Flight Seahawks football teams) Iowa13

Thanks for the help. I'm feeling confident about the article, now that it's down to one (four was getting confusing). But yeah, I would really appreciate your opinion once they're finished. I only have a couple of sources, one is online and one is an newspaper article from the University of Iowa library. They have a fair amount of parallel information, so the online source should give you a general idea of most of the content that will be in the article. Iowa13

thx

Thanks for the barnstar - but more importantly, thanks for your continued 'mop' work. Merbabu 13:12, 5 July 2007 (UTC)

he he - he's back as User:BomberKim - Bomber is the nickname of a prominent Australian politician; Kim Beazley. Merbabu 04:03, 7 July 2007 (UTC)

user:We only tell the truth

Page-lock, please? HalfShadow 17:33, 7 July 2007 (UTC)

Congratulations

Congratulations on the adminship. :) · AndonicO ^Talk 01:03, 8 July 2007 (UTC)

My RfA

Thank you for your comments in my recent RfA. However, it was unsuccessful. I am in no way disheartened, and I am working on all the constructive critisism I have received. Hopefully next time I will have sorted out everything you pointed out. If you have any further suggestions or comments, feel free to drop me a line on my talk page, and I will be happy to respond. Matt/TheFearow (Talk) (Contribs) (Bot) 05:08, 8 July 2007 (UTC)

Nate1481's impersonators

Thanks for the barnstar. My, does this guy have energy. — Rebelguys2 ^talk 11:26, 8 July 2007 (UTC)

I just deleted everything, including user talk pages (what use is page after page of warnings, anyway?), and listed everything on Wikipedia:Protected titles/July 2007/List. That way, we won't have to worry about him backtracking on old accounts. — Rebelguys2 ^talk 11:47, 8 July 2007 (UTC)

afdt and afdb templates

Hello. Just letting you know I'm reformatting some of your AfD closures (like this). The template {{afdt}} should really be at the top of the page. Cheers, Pascal.Tesson 20:37, 9 July 2007 (UTC)

What the hell?

This user: User:Lucky number 49 has been commiting Vandalism by deleting many informations from this article

http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Freyja&diff=142019223&oldid=141790268

He has changed "Freyja"s back to Freya, and deleted a large part of what written in Prose Edda and its translation. And he was given medals??

What he deleted:

Freyja er tignust með Frigg. Hon giftist þeim manni, er Óðr heitir. Dóttir þeira er Hnoss. Hon er svá fögr, at af hennar nafni eru hnossir kallaðar, þat er fagrt er ok gersimligt. Óðr fór í braut langar leiðir, en Freyja grætr eftir, en tár hennar er gull rautt. Freyja á mörg nöfn, en sú er sök til þess, at hon gaf sér ýmis heiti, er hon fór með ókunnum þjóðum at leita Óðs. Hon heitir Mardöll ok Hörn, Gefn, Sýr. Freyja átti Brísingamen. Hon er ok kölluð Vanadís.

 + ::Gylfaginning, Eysteinn Björnsson's edition [1] 

Freyja is most gently born (together with Frigg): she is wedded to the man named Ódr. Their daughter is Hnoss: she is so fair, that those things which are fair and precious are called hnossir. Ódr went away on long journeys, and Freyja weeps for him, and her tears are red gold. Freyja has many names, and this is the cause thereof: that she gave herself sundry names, when she went out among unknown peoples seeking Ódr: she is called Mardöll and Hörn, Gefn, Sýr. Freyja had the necklace Brísinga-men. She is also called Lady of the Vanir.

 + ::Gylfaginning, Brodeur's translation [2] 

This user Lucky number 49 has been abusing his power and used it to delete correct information. He needs a warning.

Lolita Goth 09:31, 16 July 2007 (UTC)

The information I deleted was placed by a user identified as a sockpuppet of a user who had committed numerous acts of vandalism. Whether the edits were correct or not, they were introduced by a user attempting to avoid a block (which is in violation of Wikipedia policy, as far as I am aware). Lucky number 49 15:24, 16 July 2007 (UTC)

You seem to be helping this user Lucky number 49 to block and delete useful and accurate informations, without even looking at what they write and if they are correct or not. Is this how Wikipedia works? This seems to be more like a childish war than a page to give readers informations.

http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Freyja&diff=142019223&oldid=141790268

This page has been reduced a good chunk of informations thanks to user Lucky number 49. He is just trying to delete any informations he does not like. This is really Vandalism.

Lolita Goth 10:24, 16 July 2007 (UTC)

WP Australia Template

Thanks for the updates for the Wikipedia:WikiProject Gold Coast, Queensland. I'd appreciate if you could change the links though for the project and categories, as the project is now includes , Queensland in the title (to match the existing categories).

All quality and importance categories have been added to include , Queensland as well.

Thanks once again, I appreciate your help.

--Nicko 01:15, 11 July 2007 (UTC)

If you could change it all back that would be appreciate it. It seems my previous actions have been in error. Sorry. --Nicko 11:42, 11 July 2007 (UTC)

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SilverSpirit page

Hello there. I'm rather mortified that here, nobody saw fit to reply to my coments. That's not very community, is it? It does, in fact, smack rather of the unilateralism that somewhat dogs the moderation system of Wikipedia. Something which I find intriguing is that the AfD log seems to be a place where people go to pull an article to pieces. I don't see people vouching for articles which I'd say were perfectly legitimate and may just need a tidy-up. It's sad that instead of one person taking half an hour or so to add quality and value to an article, they go to the AfD section and spend less than a minute having a quick squizz on Google and writing out a one-liner about why it should go.

Hey ho, nature of the beast, n'est pas. LorD 09:28, 11 July 2007 (UTC)

More refreshing than thou!

...and I'd like to thank you for your posting on my userpage. It was also refreshing for me to see a mod who wasn't all 'I have the power, mua-ha-ha-ha' and generally holier-than-thou in attitude, so that's also much appreciated. At least now I have a new goal; I used to want to get a track we'd produced released on iTunes - we did that. Then I wanted a track we'd produced released on CD - we did that as well. And now, I want to be ...oh yes... notable! LorD 12:58, 11 July 2007 (UTC)

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Inheritance Trilogy

There was so much talk on it though and so many people argueing to keep it that I wanted to know the reasons before removing their only source of pleasure.Wild ste 21:12, 11 July 2007 (UTC)

My RfA

Well, I was looking for a prettier way to do this, but I'm not very artistic, so I'll just say thank you for your support in my RfA, which was closed as successful. I look forward to serving the community in a new way. Take care! -- But|seriously|folks  08:45, 12 July 2007 (UTC)

Withdrawn RfA/Mike33

Thanks so much. I understand entirely your reasons. I can definately be a much better editor without the broom (mop and bucket??). Thanks for the kind regards, this was never an attempt to get a quick editor review, I tried to be as honest as I could but it failed. Again thanks, kind regards, Mike Mike33 13:15, 12 July 2007 (UTC)

My RfA

Thank you very much for your participation in my recent unsuccessful RfA. I am very grateful for all of the advice, and hope that it will help me grow as an editor. Sincerely, Neranei ^T/C 11:31, 15 July 2007 (UTC)

DRV note

An editor has asked for a deletion review of Ethan Haas Was Right. Since you closed the deletion discussion for this article or speedy-deleted it, you might want to participate in the deletion review.  Grue  07:49, 16 July 2007 (UTC)

Also along these same lines, I am very mcuh confused by the history of this AfD page. It seems as though at one point, you are deleting the article, and you have a well worded answer that I happen to agree with. Then the most recent revision is a "keep", with no explanation other than "closure correction". Is that a correct interpretation of what is happening? Yookaloco 17:48, 16 July 2007 (UTC)

My RfA

Thank you for your support in my successful RfA. I appreciate the trust you and the WP community has in me. Carlossuarez46 21:29, 16 July 2007 (UTC)

My RfA

Thank you for your support in my unsuccessful RfA. I appreciate the trust you and the WP community have in me; however, this time around things just didn't work out. TomStar81 (Talk) 21:49, 16 July 2007 (UTC)

Thanks

Thanks User:Ck lostsword for the revert. ShoesssS ^Talk 22:36, 17 July 2007 (UTC)

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Pray tell, what was unproductive about changing the spelling of Prices to Prizes and changing stub to actor stub? 172.145.218.70 22:37, 17 July 2007 (UTC)

PS I would argue that not looking at the article to see what is said in the article, and comparing the changes made, before you accuse someone of vandalism is quite an underhanded thing to do. I expect an apology and/or explanation of why what I did was consider vandalism. 172.145.218.70 22:39, 17 July 2007 (UTC)

I did make a typo and if you noticed, I had two edits the last one was when I noticed I made a typo to the typo and changed it I had put the z in the wrong place. That is why I ask people to not be so quick to accuse people of vandalizing. If you had looked at the article instead of the edit history, you would have noticed that by the time you saw the article, I had already changed it to Prizes. But even still, even if I hadn't caught my mistake, accusing me of vandalism is a bit strong!

DavidYork71...

He's been editing a bit under three socks. I placed it on AVI but had it removed - told to go to ANI (such a time waste). The socks are:

• Ultrabias (talk⁺ · tag · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log · CA · CheckUser(log) · investigate · cuwiki)
• NewAgeKvetch (talk⁺ · tag · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log · CA · CheckUser(log) · investigate · cuwiki)
• CorrectOrPreferred (talk⁺ · tag · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log · CA · CheckUser(log) · investigate · cuwiki)
• RealismIncorporated (talk⁺ · tag · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log · CA · CheckUser(log) · investigate · cuwiki)

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On a personal note, thank you so much for your very kind words. - Philippe | Talk 02:45, 22 July 2007 (UTC)

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Hi, Ck lostsword, and thanks for your participation in my RfA. I've withdrawn it, and will be writing up an "analysis" of it, which will soon be available at User:Giggy/RfA/Giggy when it's done. Please come around when you get the chance, and give me feedback on how I can improve. Thanks again, Giggy _U^CP 04:27, 31 July 2007 (UTC)

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For what it's worth, 76.240.134.2 stopped spamming after the second warning. THF 20:42, 16 August 2007 (UTC)

Thank you!

For reverting the vandalism to my user page I just noticed today. Thanks, Carlossuarez46 16:50, 19 August 2007 (UTC)

• I need to get one of those boxes that says how often it gets vandalized, but why incite them? Carlossuarez46 16:55, 19 August 2007 (UTC)

Misuse of AWB

It seems you used AWB on Cayley transform to change HTML character entities to UTF-8 in a mathematics article. The mathematics communtity has repeatedly and firmly decided this is a bad idea in our specialty. In fact, I thought AWB had been fixed not to do this, and language had been added warning against it.

I've undone the changes to this particular page; please undo any others you may have changed. This is the first I have seen this problem return in many months; please don't do this to any more mathematics articles, and please help spread the word.

Thanks for your help. --KSmrq^T 18:48, 20 August 2007 (UTC)

PS: Here is a reference, for your convenience. (Happily, the nested superscripts bug it mentions has been fixed; since the fix applies retroactively, it makes that part of the discussion a little confusing!) --KSmrq^T 19:05, 20 August 2007 (UTC)

PPS: Good news (I hope). Scanning your last series of AWB edits, the only mathematics ones I notice are weighted least squares, cofactor (linear algebra), dyadic product, coordinate system, principal components analysis, permutation, and the aforementioned Cayley transform. With the exception of the last two, these are all merely good disambiguations of "matrix". I'll fix permutation, since I see some other issues there anyway. Did I miss any? (You can reply here.) --KSmrq^T 19:20, 20 August 2007 (UTC)

Hi, thanks very much for noticing; as you rightly guessed, I have been disambiguating, rather than changing coding (which, frankly, I am generally stumped by). I apologise profusely for making the changes to the mathematical coding - I was unaware that this feature was still activated and will ensure that it is switched off in future edits. That, I think, is all of the maths edits; as I say, I'll pay more attention in future. Thanks once again. ck lostsword•T•C 00:16, 21 August 2007 (UTC)

What's the use!

Thanks for the advice, but unless there is a way to do this confidentially, it's not worth it! THey are NOT going to leave me alone! If I wanted to be bullied, I'd go back to junior high school - I didn't come here for this! Unless you have a confidential alternative, or at least one invisible to IPs, this user name is worthless to me now. I may come back, I may not. We'll see. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by BillCJ (talk • contribs) 01:10, August 22, 2007 (UTC).

User:Artard Master

I upgraded this block to indefinite as the contribs indicate he is a vandalism-only account. --Coredesat 01:52, 22 August 2007 (UTC)

Can I Remove Entries?

I was about to remove that Disco guy myself but instead tried to leave a comment pointing out that he hasn't been given a final warning (which ended up in my 7th edit conflict on that page today :P) But anyways, would it be acceptable if I removed entires that I saw had not been given final warnings? -WarthogDemon 01:54, 22 August 2007 (UTC)

Just a note...

You just accidentially created the (now deleted) article Editing User talk:76.26.33.38 instead of actually editing that user's talk page. J Milburn 01:57, 22 August 2007 (UTC)

My RFA

Hey Lostsword, just out of curiosity, when you supported my RFA, you wrote, "very nice to see an editor." I was wondering what you meant by that?Balloonman 04:11, 22 August 2007 (UTC)

thanks for the clarification, that's what I thought you meant, but the emphasis on editor made me wonder if there was a little more to it and there was---and ooops, looks like I was logged out. ;-)76.205.232.164 13:11, 22 August 2007 (UTC)