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Suggest longer block. It caused University Canada West to be protected six months by its edit warring against consensus beginning August 2 and continuing until today. I think several weeks would be in order. Cheers, Enigma^msg 22:07, 1 September 2010 (UTC)

If they keep it up I will just semi-protect the article. --Chris (talk) 22:19, 1 September 2010 (UTC)

I don't see the logic there. I'm saying a longer block for the IP is justified. Enigma^msg 22:25, 1 September 2010 (UTC)

If they are IP-hopping as the report at AN/EW seems to indicate then a block will do little good. (Or am I missing something?) --Chris (talk) 22:30, 1 September 2010 (UTC)

The IP indicated is the only one over the last 17 days. I think a longer block would do good. Enigma^msg 22:56, 1 September 2010 (UTC)

User:Gregmm

Emailed you. Black Kite (t) (c) 21:35, 7 September 2010 (UTC)

OnCamera

Is requesting unblock here. I'm inclined to grant it due to their comments and the first offense nature, but wanted to check with you first.  7  23:52, 7 September 2010 (UTC)

Oncamera block

This editor promises he will not edit-war. What do you say to reducing this block to time served with a prohibition on any edits to the affected article (Gackt) until the block would have expired? Original AN3 report is here.--Chaser (talk) 23:59, 7 September 2010 (UTC)

You said she should not be editing pages about herself.

Replying to your talkback comment Re. Wikipedia:Requests_for_undeletion#Liz_Meyer: I can't readily locate an authoritative source for what 'should not' means in common parlance better than http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/should , which lists as the only or most relevant synonym for should, must. Thus I lean toward the view that 'should not' comes very very close to the meaning in common parlance of 'must not', not of 'may', when used in the context in which you used it. (RFC 2119 is specialized, not an appropriate general reference.) We agree that policy indicates that "She may edit the article." I do not think it's accurate to represent that that policy states that she should not edit the article except to correct simple, factual inaccuracies. I don't think it's appropriate to admonish a user for doing what policy says she may do. But I doubt the above will change your view, so let's agree to disagree and get back to improving the content. --Elvey (talk) 23:52, 15 September 2010 (UTC)

I found this definition of "should" on Google, and it's the one that I usually mean: "Auxiliary verb indicating a lesser obligation to comply with the main verb that follows. Used when there is recognition that although bound by duty, there may be circumstances that warrant not proceeding as stated." So I think we are actually in agreement -- all editing is permitted, but most editing is strongly discouraged to the point where it's better if she simply doesn't edit outside of what the guideline explicitly permits (correcting simple factual errors being one such case, and others documented in this section of the COI guideline). --Chris (talk) 00:14, 16 September 2010 (UTC)

Wikibench

Are you still working on it? --I dream of horses @ 03:18, 15 October 2010 (UTC)

Honestly I haven't touched it in years. Most of the functionality I was working on I've lost interest in. :( Maybe if I dig up the sources I can publish them and others could continue working on it. --Chris (talk) 16:48, 26 October 2010 (UTC)

Okay, just curious. Thanks for telling me. :-) I dream of horses If you reply here, please leave me a {{Talkback}} message on my talk page. @ 18:32, 26 October 2010 (UTC)

Children's Museum backstage pass

Hi Chris. Just getting around to confirming guests for tomorrow. I already did this via your email; but didn't want you to feel left out :). See you tomorrow! HstryQT (talk) 21:26, 4 November 2010 (UTC)

Yup, thanks! BTW, my wife is still a tentative yes for tomorrow -- she will know for sure sometime today. --Chris (talk) 21:30, 4 November 2010 (UTC)

Hello!

Hello! I need some help! 60.240.214.156 (talk) 05:46, 17 November 2010 (UTC)

Children's Museum project

Hello! I just wanted to touch base here a couple weeks after the Backstage Pass event. You can see that images from the day are being added to theChildren's Museum of Indianapolis category in Commons. Thanks for your great panoramic of the building, and for updating the Children's Museum article! We also received a little press on both the Children's Museum blog:The Wikipedians are Coming! and the Wikipedia Signpost had the event as their lead story last week. I will be continuing to work on organizing TCMI research content and moving forward with the content donation in the coming months. I will probably have an announcement about the content donation sometime around February, and I could certainly use your help in spreading the word at that point. In the meantime, do let me know on the project requests page if you are working on a TCMI related article and if you would like more resources or would like to be connected with a curator. Thanks! HstryQT (talk) 21:48, 17 November 2010 (UTC)

Thanks for the info/offer. I'm still sitting on a pile of pictures -- real life has me too busy to sort the remaining ones at the moment, but I will definitely be asking some questions about them once I get around to it. --Chris (talk) 22:21, 29 November 2010 (UTC)

Can't get Vandalsniper to run

I'm on Ubuntu 10.4. See log:

angela@Athena:~/Desktop/vandalsniper-63$ ./vs.exe

• • (./vs.exe:14210): WARNING **: The following assembly referenced from /home/angela/Desktop/vandalsniper-63/vs.exe could not be loaded:

    Assembly:   gecko-sharp    (assemblyref_index=5)
    Version:    2.0.0.0
    Public Key: ccf7d78a55e9f021

The assembly was not found in the Global Assembly Cache, a path listed in the MONO_PATH environment variable, or in the location of the executing assembly (/home/angela/Desktop/vandalsniper-63/).

• • (./vs.exe:14210): WARNING **: Could not load file or assembly 'gecko-sharp, Version=2.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=ccf7d78a55e9f021' or one of its dependencies.

Unhandled Exception: System.TypeLoadException: Could not load type 'VandalSniper.MainWindow' from assembly 'vs, Version=0.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=null'.

Your help would be greatly appreciated! Silivrenion (talk) 20:54, 28 January 2011 (UTC)

Children's Museum Update

Hello!
I wanted to give you an update on the Children's Museum Wikipedia collaboration. You can check out my brief overview in the Children's Museum blog, which includes details on the Apprentice Program project to create five new Wikipedia articles as well as the image donation and use of the new Wikipedia Widget to link the museum's website to Wikipedia.

Last month we completed our first museum image content donation of 30 images. While this seems to be a low number, what makes the donation unique is the curatorial involvement in choosing and vetting the images for their appropriateness and usefulness within Wikimedia (many of the objects are copyrighted toys and other works that have copyright restrictions.) The curators in the collections department were very hands-on in their involvement, and we'll be outlining this process in an upcoming case study. If you would like to help further this process, I'd be happy for you to help disperse the images into useful Wikipedia articles, or let the appropriate WikiProjects know of the new images. Another 30 will be uploaded in the coming month.

In addition to the collaboration with the Museum Apprentice Program students and the curatorial department, another important collaboration was between User:Ealdgyth and the American Collections curators to significantly update the Broad Ripple Park Carousel article. After an impressive amount of time and work, the article has now received Featured Article status. The museum is absolutely thrilled and will now be adding a QR code to the carousel exhibit Carousel: Wishes and Dreams. In the future, more QR codes will be added to the objects that have had articles written by the MAP students. We're excited by the success of this collaboration & will also be writing a case study on the process.

There is now a recurring Indianapolis Update on the newly minted GLAM Newsletter. If you'd like to subscribe to the GLAM newsletter, you can do so here. Thanks! And let me know if you have any questions! HstryQT (talk) 17:51, 19 April 2011 (UTC)

Old account template?

Hello, I was wondering if there was a template to tell people that User:Meegar is my old account. I was rather young and immature at the time that account was created, but I wanted a fresh start with Wikipedia and made a new account. However, I can't seem to find an appropriate template, though I have seen it a few times. Thank you! Equivamp (talk) 16:15, 29 April 2011 (UTC)

I think you're looking for {{Former account}}. --Chris (talk) 19:51, 29 April 2011 (UTC)

Hi!

I just wanted to point out your attention here, I'm not trying to be 'pushy' or 'make a decision now'. It just doesn't look like it gets seen to regularly. Thanks. ;-)
--Thepoliticalmaster (talk) 17:25, 14 June 2011 (UTC)

Next Children's Museum Backstage Pass

Hello! I wanted to personally invite you to The Children's Museum of Indianapolis' 2nd Backstage Pass and Edit-a-Thon, which will occur on Saturday, August 20. The Wikipedian in Residence project is coming up on one year and is going strong. While the first year focused on garnering institutional enthusiasm among staff, organizing multiple content donations, and guiding teens in research and article creation, the next year will focus on establishing an E-Volunteer program and more deliberately connecting with local Wikipedians and WikiProjects around the world. You can read a summary of our projects on the museum's blog, or visit the project page.

We hope you're able to attend the upcoming Backstage Pass! If you're not able to attend, but are interested in remaining involved and up to date on the museum's Wikipedia project, please sign up on our E-Volunteer page. There will also be an opportunity to participate in the Edit-a-Thon online, if you cannot attend on-site. If you'd like to make a request for images or research content from our curators, you can add to the Requests page. Let me know if you have any questions and I hope to be in touch! LoriLee (talk) 11:42, 15 July 2011 (UTC)

Your opinion is needed

Hello! The Children's Museum of Indianapolis is considering adapting a formal E-Volunteer program and they welcome your opinion as a Wikipedian. Your responses to this E-Volunteer survey will be extremely valuable. The survey will come to a close on October 1st. If you're interested, here are other ways you can help the Children's Museum's Wikipedia project. Thanks so much! LoriLee (talk) 20:07, 28 September 2011 (UTC)

Gary Yourofsky

Yo. I have been exchanging emails with Yourofsky over the past few months and informed him on the article which I started back in June. He demanded to have any references to PETA removed from the article because he hates them now. He started threatening me and swearing at me by email. So, I told him he can fuck off and get one of his ass kissers to write his page. I tried to explain that I can't remove the PETA references because that wouldn't be a complete biography, I also tried to explain that it takes time to write the article and bring it to a nice level of quality. He refused to listen. This is why I blanked the page and put a db-author tag on it. I'm VERY angry right now because of Gary. Please consider still deleting the page. I, personally, am done with it. Sentient Planet (talk) 15:01, 29 September 2011 (UTC)

I can understand your frustration, but note that the decision to delete is not mine to make, except when the page meets one of the CSD. The community will have to decide what to do with it. You are free to nominate the page for deletion, and the community can discuss how to proceed. --Chris (talk) 15:14, 29 September 2011 (UTC)

Three hours?

With the exception of highly dynamic IPs, like those from mobile phones, three hours would generally seem to me to be far too short-a-block for an IP vandal. Most IP addresses are static enough that they can be blocked for at least a day or so (like the fairly standard 31 hours), and three hours really isn't along time for a vandal to wait. I've noticed you make quite a few three-hour blocks, but the block of 152.26.67.2 caught my eye, because they had two previous blocks for vandalism (by me, for 60 hours and a week respectively) and because they resumed vandalising about an hour and a half after the block expired. If I could get you to consider a slightly lengthier default block length, I'd be much obliged. Best, HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 19:32, 29 September 2011 (UTC)

I'll look at that block. I usually take into account previous blocks, but also the timespan for the offending activity. If I see most of the activity in the last hour or so, then I usually consider a three-hour block sufficient to direct the vandal's energy somewhere else. --Chris (talk) 20:07, 29 September 2011 (UTC)

Ah see, I missed the block that had just expired. Anyway, I see they've now been blocked for another month. --Chris (talk) 20:09, 29 September 2011 (UTC)

edit on BD) 2012

sorry? that edit wasn't made by me I'm afraid. this happens to me very often. I get put the blame. (not complaining) why does more then one computer share the same IP address? because of this my IP addeess has been changed four times before. --124.183.113.244 (talk) 22:34, 29 September 2011 (UTC)

It's very common to have multiple computers behind a single external IP address, especially at organizations (companies, libraries, schools, etc.) since it's usually costly to purchase public IP-space for every computer. If you're given a warning for an edit you personally didn't do, just ignore it; the message was left for the user who performed the edit.

Alternatively, consider creating an account. While logged-in, you won't be notified of messages posted to the talk page of the IP address you're using, since the address and the account are considered separate. --Chris (talk) 23:45, 29 September 2011 (UTC)

204.184.207.16 (talk · contribs)

I looked at the IP and it's a University, do you think a longer block than 3 hours might be in order given that there has been vandalism spread over the last few weeks? Dougweller (talk) 15:46, 30 September 2011 (UTC)

It is the first block against the IP, so I'd rather see if this will have any effect on the vandalism level first. If the vandalism resumes, we can always block again for longer. --Chris (talk) 16:05, 30 September 2011 (UTC)

Ok, but it's likely it's different people each day. We'll see next week. Dougweller (talk) 16:06, 30 September 2011 (UTC)

That's the reason I don't want to block for longer... the risk of collateral damage is high, but the volume of vandalism is rather low. --Chris (talk) 16:06, 30 September 2011 (UTC)

Mount Vernon

What do you mean? That is true he grew cannabis for his priamry crop for HEMP not for smoking, that is a fact, not controversal atall because hemp has been used for thousands of years to make clothing and beauty products. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Soprano123 (talk • contribs) 19:18, 30 September 2011 (UTC)

I reverted your edit because you did not cite any sources for your claim. Please provide a reliable source for the content you are adding. --Chris (talk) 19:42, 30 September 2011 (UTC)

Bizeso

why do you think that it is a deletion content, you can see lots of references in the wiki. Also you can search on google about site covering and please do not add these kind of unrelevant tags without visiting site. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Sonal.bajaj (talk • contribs) 21:30, 30 September 2011 (UTC)

I did not say that I thought it should be deleted, only that you need to let the deletion discussion run its course and not disrupt it. --Chris (talk) 02:32, 2 October 2011 (UTC)

Engineer Vipin Gupta(article)

Hey! why are you deleted my informative article about Vipin, i need to further include additional information on that article but it got removed by you. Vipin 04:21, 1 October 2011 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Shen.gupta (talk • contribs)

Because the article did not assert notability for the person. If you want to work on an article without being interrupted, consider creating a userspace draft, or mark the page as in-progress by placing the text {{in creation}} at the top of the article until you are done with the initial version. --Chris (talk) 02:39, 2 October 2011 (UTC)

Anti-Vandalism Barnstar

		The Anti-Vandalism Barnstar
		I see you already have a few of these anti-vandalism barnstars, but it looks like you deserve another. Thanks for your efforts; they make a big difference! You are awesome! Strafpeloton2 (talk) 22:31, 3 October 2011 (UTC)

Thank you! It's nice to know my work is helping. --Chris (talk) 22:37, 3 October 2011 (UTC)

IP

22:46, 3 October 2011 Crazycomputers (talk | contribs) blocked 81.96.198.25 (talk) (anon. only, account creation blocked) with an expiry time of 24 hours ‎ (Violation of the three-revert rule)

I noted above and decided to keep an eye on this, and the second IP removing it. The IP adding the url appears to have admitted on the Talk page that it is his/her self-published webpage, and persists in adding his/her url to the article above (what appear to be, at least) official homepages of the church. Not sure what further action might be appropriate in such cases? Cheers. In ictu oculi (talk) 02:49, 7 October 2011 (UTC)

At the very least, this is a case of COI and the user should be advised to take the matter to the article talk page and get input from other editors. --Chris (talk) 14:53, 13 October 2011 (UTC)

New Page Patrol survey

New page patrol ? Survey Invitation Hello Crazycomputers/Archive 9! The WMF is currently developing new tools to make new page patrolling much easier. Whether you have patrolled many pages or only a few, we now need to know about your experience. The survey takes only 6 minutes, and the information you provide will not be shared with third parties other than to assist us in analyzing the results of the survey; the WMF will not use the information to identify you. If this invitation also appears on other accounts you may have, please complete the survey once only. If this has been sent to you in error and you have never patrolled new pages, please ignore it. Please click HERE to take part. Many thanks in advance for providing this essential feedback. You are receiving this invitation because you have patrolled new pages. For more information, please see NPP Survey

Children's Museum update

Kit Cat Klock

It's time again to share the latest news on the Children's Museum of Indianapolis Wikipedia project! In the last few months we have been busy with our third image donation, which was made up of 150 images that were professionally photographed specifically for this upload. We are asking for volunteers to categorize these images and distribute them into Wikipedia articles. Your help is appreciated! Check them out here.

We have also donated our first video and a second GLAM-Wiki Infographic to Commons. In September we were thrilled to welcome Jimmy Wales to the museum. Following our successful Edit-a-Thon and Translate-a-Thon in August, translations have continued with the help of the established QRpedia community, (particularly Russian translations thanks to Lvova!) We have begun to analyze our implementation of QRpedia codes and completed an extensive case study. In November we presented at the Museum Computer Network conference about how museums can effectively collaborate with Wikipedia. You can see more details on the Prezi.

In more general news, in addition to serving as the Children's Museum's Wikipedian-in-Residence, it was recently announced that I will be taking on the role of US Cultural Partnerships Coordinator for the Wikimedia Foundation. In this role I will be working to streamline the process of connecting interested US GLAMs with the Wikipedia community. If you have any questions or suggestions, feel free to let me know. Be sure to sign up for This Month in GLAM to keep up with the latest GLAM-Wiki news from around the world (subscribe).

We have a listing of High Need and Moderate Need requests on the Ways to Help section on the project page. I encourage you to lend a hand if you're able. While the Children's Museum partnership continues to truck along, we still are in desperate need of volunteers to help disperse our images and update and maintain content. Thank you for your time and help. Happy holidays! LoriLee (talk) 16:45, 21 December 2011 (UTC)

Watchlistbot

Resolved

 – "Typing" notifications in XMPP are sent as messages with no body. This was confusing the bot. It will now ignore such messages.

Hi, I noticed with excitement that you had resurrected Watchlistbot, and I successfully added him to my contact list via XMPP, but it seems that any command I issue knocks him offline and he immediately comes back. I have not been able to elicit a canned response or acknowledgement of any commands. Please advise! Elizium23 (talk) 20:51, 31 January 2012 (UTC)

Hmm, I see. I have a theory about this. Give me a minute or two to experiment in my test environment and I'll get back to you. --Chris (talk) 20:56, 31 January 2012 (UTC)

I can't reproduce the problem myself. I've added some debugging code to the bot. Can you try again? --Chris (talk) 21:02, 31 January 2012 (UTC)

It's working great now... Elizium23 (talk) 21:04, 31 January 2012 (UTC)

Excellent. I think I've found the problem. The bot will restart a few times in a minute or two. Thanks for the report! --Chris (talk) 21:05, 31 January 2012 (UTC)

Can you send the bot another message so I can collect a bit more data? --Chris (talk) 22:10, 31 January 2012 (UTC)

Warning of Zenkai

Hi Chris. Thank you for responding to the AN3 report and warning Zenkai. I think your note on harassment is a good one, however, I'm not sure it adequately addresses the real problem area. I hope you noticed my comments below noformation's showing his edit warring on Genesis creation narrative, and ample warnings against edit warring in the past. Add to that his resuming a long-term edit war at creation myth, also today: [1], [2], [3], [4] (and those aren't his only reverts today). In case you are unfamiliar with the backstory, Zenkai has been brought up at ANI a few times, and has narrowly escaped a topic ban for disruptive editing (such as this) twice. On one occasion, the only reason he escaped was due to my opposition to the ban, in the hope that I'd be able to work with him and improve his behavior. I wasn't. He has only recently come back to the topic, and his behavior has been rapidly degrading. It is my fear that, if this behavior goes unchecked, we're going to end back up at ANI (very soon), and formal sanctions are going to be applied indefinitely. It's for this reason that I don't think a warning about harassment is enough at this point. If possible, could you re-examine the situation? ANI may be inevitable, but I was hoping this situation might be a wake-up-call that he needs to confer more with his mentor. Thanks.   — Jess· Δ♥ 05:56, 1 February 2012 (UTC)

Well, at this point he is definitely on a tight leash as far as I'm concerned. He is close to breaking 3RR and he's been harassing Noformation. I will be watching him closely and won't hesitate to stop any further disruption. --Chris (talk) 06:02, 1 February 2012 (UTC)

Ok, well, I appreciate the extra eyes. He's had quite a few of those in the past, but somehow the message that he needs to work collaboratively and speak to his mentor hasn't come across. I don't know how better to convey that message before he's topic banned. Maybe that will be the best in the end, so he can concentrate on non-contentious areas. I don't know. I expect this to hit ANI again in the next week or two based on behavior thus far... I was just hoping he'd see a clear indication his behavior was problematic before then. Oh well. Thanks for the help - I do appreciate you looking things over.   — Jess· Δ♥ 06:12, 1 February 2012 (UTC)

No problem. A block may very well be warranted, but I haven't dug too deeply into his past and I tend to err on the side of not blocking where possible. If what I've seen from today continues into tomorrow, I won't hesitate to act appropriately. --Chris (talk) 06:19, 1 February 2012 (UTC)

Oh, and should another admin decide that a block is necessary I won't have any problem with that. --Chris (talk) 06:20, 1 February 2012 (UTC)

Blocked editor back to BLP-violating edit warring

Two days ago, you blocked User:68.113.25.188 for his or her BLP-violating edit warring at Arne Duncan. This was his or her first block so it was for 24 hours. The block has expired and he or she has picked up right where he or she left off. Can you please block again with a longer duration? Thanks! ElKevbo (talk) 13:03, 1 February 2012 (UTC)

 Done. --Chris (talk) 16:02, 1 February 2012 (UTC)

Thanks! But now he or she has migrated to User:71.80.152.141. :( ElKevbo (talk) 17:17, 1 February 2012 (UTC)

Blocked again. --Chris (talk) 17:21, 1 February 2012 (UTC)

Thanks again! ElKevbo (talk) 17:29, 1 February 2012 (UTC)

Our friend is back: User:68.113.25.188 (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)

ElKevbo (talk) 00:09, 8 February 2012 (UTC)

Yup, I am watching the IP and am already on it. --Chris (talk) 00:09, 8 February 2012 (UTC)

Consider reconsidering

I believe your imposition of a 1 week block was more punitive than preventive as it regards Youreallycan. Even considering Off2riorob's block log 72 hours would seem adequate. I am asking that you reconsider your criteria and if you agree that 72 hours would serve the desired end, modify the block accordingly. Thank you for giving this request consideration. My76Strat (talk) 14:22, 2 February 2012 (UTC)

One week is fairly standard for a third 3RR block in my experience, and this user has already had three 3RR blocks (four, if you count one that was overturned by the community, which I don't), plus two blocks for edit warring. If there is demonstrated consensus against the block I will have no objection to lifting it early. --Chris (talk) 15:12, 2 February 2012 (UTC)

Thank you. Your rationale is congruent with both policy and logic. I would never seek a consensus against your decision for it is entirely within reason. My request was to ask that you consider a reconsideration, which you obviously did, fully satisfying my request. If I may close with this final mitigation; my primary reason for asking regards two threads, an RfC/U and related ANI where his input is valuable and currently missed, and a new ANI thread where the omission of his input is glaring. Perhaps if you can facilitate allowing participation in these three discussions, the best end would be served. Again, thank you for vesting your time in considering these. Sincerely - My76Strat (talk) 15:41, 2 February 2012 (UTC)

I would not object to an unblock early if he accepts a 0RR restriction until the one-week block would have expired. --Chris (talk) 16:50, 2 February 2012 (UTC)

Youreallycan has chosen to accede your generous compromise. While your words allow another admin to effect the modification, I think it would be exceedingly appropriate if you had time to modify the block yourself. In any regard, thank you for emerging as abundantly reasonable. Best - My76Strat (talk) 17:37, 2 February 2012 (UTC)

• Thanks for the good faith reduction - Youreallycan 17:57, 2 February 2012 (UTC)
  • No problem. I hope I've communicated in some form that the block was not an endorsement of the talk page header you were attempting to change, but was only a reaction to the resulting edit war. --Chris (talk) 18:01, 2 February 2012 (UTC)

Shrikatnv's socking?

Are you aware of User:Shrikanthv's sockpuppet finding (see User:Vshrikanth)? The sock went on to continue some of the behavior that led the sock master to make a legal threat. I don't know how it impacts the unblock today but I assume no block was added to the master's account for socking since it was blocked indef already. Perhaps you could check with the SP admin, User:Amalthea. Jojalozzo 18:05, 6 February 2012 (UTC)

No, there was nothing whatsoever linking from Shrikanthv's pages to Vshrikanth's. I'm not sure how Amalthea thought a reviewing admin was supposed to know about the puppet account's block... :/ --Chris (talk) 18:11, 6 February 2012 (UTC)

That's what I figured. As far as I can tell this user isn't malicious but doesn't have the language skills to navigate and understand policy well enough to stay out of trouble. It's been one blunder after another with little willingness to spend the time looking at (and probably ability to comprehend) policy pages that have been suggested multiple times. I suspect there is job-related pressure to obtain particular results that do not coincide with WP's goals. Jojalozzo 18:21, 6 February 2012 (UTC)

That seems likely. Reblocking the account is easy enough though; I guess we'll see what happens. Also, in response to your edit summary (probably an assumption that existing indef block wouldn't be undone) the standard WP:NLT drill is to block indef when a threat is made and unblock when it is withdrawn. NLT was the only context I had when evaluating the block. --Chris (talk) 18:24, 6 February 2012 (UTC)

Hi, this was an unusual situation in several ways which resulted in the unclear situation here, I apologize for that. The unblock was absolutely correct under the circumstances, you had no chance to find the additional concerns of WP:COI editing without me or a clerk leaving a pointer to the SPI case page.
I notified the user to study the WP:Business FAQ, and he has for now stopped doing direct promotional edits. Instead he has tagged two pages on what appears to be competitors for deletion. :/
I've left him another message, if he continues with similarly inappropriate edits he may have to be blocked again.
Amalthea 21:13, 6 February 2012 (UTC)

Understood. Are you going to keep an eye on him or shall I? --Chris (talk) 00:12, 8 February 2012 (UTC)

Thank you for your participation on the 3RR noticeboard

Thank you Chris :-) Can you at least have a chat with this user though? It seems like he is no longer interested in discussing with me. Also User:Morbidthoughts appears to be guilty of canvassing by recruiting User:Nymf [5] (or could it be a sockpuppet?), someone I have no interaction with whatsoever. Nymf came out of no where to support Morbidthoughts without stating any reason [6]. Could you please look into this and perhaps have a talk with Morbidthoughts? Thank you!!--TheBigNatural (talk) 19:47, 8 February 2012 (UTC)

Copyvio notices / warnings

I've noticed that twice today you've added warnings / copyvio notices to user pages, presumably after you've deleted the article in question. I've noticed this because I was the one that tagged the articles. I've reverted this addition as the user already had an identical notice on their page (apart from the article / file involved) so I'd simply add a line saying that it also implied to that article. I've left this warning in place, as although I think it's redundant, it as at least a different message. I think it's unhelpful to repeatedly tag user pages with similar or identical message (and I'm sure this is suggested somewhere that I can't currently find), do you not agree? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Dpmuk (talk • contribs)

In the first case, I simply didn't notice this text and so I thought that warning was just for the image. In that case, yes, my warning should be removed and I thank you for doing so. In the second case I thought I would leave a note stating that the removal had actually happened. It probably wasn't necessary... I could be convinced either way on that one. --Chris (talk) 00:05, 9 February 2012 (UTC)

Fair enough. I'd noticed the second one but thought it wasn't worth saying anything until I saw the first as I don't feel too strongly about that one either way either. With respect to the first one I'm trying to engage with that editor and thought a wall of warnings would be not be useful. Glad that you agree and you just didn't notice my edit. Sorry for not signing my edit. Dpmuk (talk) 00:09, 9 February 2012 (UTC)

Sounds like we're on the same page then. :) Good luck in your discussion with the editor, I hope they stick around. --Chris (talk) 00:13, 9 February 2012 (UTC) (Np about signing, it happens to the best of us.)

MSU Interview

Dear Crazycomputers,

My name is Jonathan Obar user:Jaobar, I'm a professor in the College of Communication Arts and Sciences at Michigan State University and a Teaching Fellow with the Wikimedia Foundation's Education Program. This semester I've been running a little experiment at MSU, a class where we teach students about becoming Wikipedia administrators. Not a lot is known about your community, and our students (who are fascinated by wiki-culture by the way!) want to learn how you do what you do, and why you do it. A while back I proposed this idea (the class) to the community HERE, were it was met mainly with positive feedback. Anyhow, I'd like my students to speak with a few administrators to get a sense of admin experiences, training, motivations, likes, dislikes, etc. We were wondering if you'd be interested in speaking with one of our students.

So a few things about the interviews:

• Interviews will last between 15 and 30 minutes.
• Interviews can be conducted over skype (preferred), IRC or email. (You choose the form of communication based upon your comfort level, time, etc.)
• All interviews will be completely anonymous, meaning that you (real name and/or pseudonym) will never be identified in any of our materials, unless you give the interviewer permission to do so.
• All interviews will be completely voluntary. You are under no obligation to say yes to an interview, and can say no and stop or leave the interview at any time.
• The entire interview process is being overseen by MSU's institutional review board (ethics review). This means that all questions have been approved by the university and all students have been trained how to conduct interviews ethically and properly.

Bottom line is that we really need your help, and would really appreciate the opportunity to speak with you. If interested, please send me an email at obar@msu.edu (to maintain anonymity) and I will add your name to my offline contact list. If you feel comfortable doing so, you can post your name HERE instead.

If you have questions or concerns at any time, feel free to email me at obar@msu.edu. I will be more than happy to speak with you.

Thanks in advance for your help. We have a lot to learn from you.

Sincerely,

Jonathan Obar --Jaobar (talk) 02:42, 9 February 2012 (UTC)

Thanks to have solve my IP problem

Thanks a lot, It works fine now. See you--Bruno2wi (talk) 10:16, 11 February 2012 (UTC)

No problem! --Chris (talk) 21:06, 11 February 2012 (UTC)

Thank you for the edit!

Hi, I'd like to say thank you for the edit on NCLab wiki. You cropped out the browser to make my screenshot more compatible with wiki policy. I appreciate any help I can get. JordanBlocher (talk) 19:22, 13 February 2012 (UTC)

No problem. It is a wiki after all... why wait for someone else to fix something when I can fix it myself? :) --Chris (talk) 19:28, 13 February 2012 (UTC)

Personal Attack

Is this a personal attack? FWIW, I am calm and if you had a bad hair day or something, somewhere else in "real life", that's really not my problem as I have no obligation to take it any other way here on Wikipedia I can so don't be an asshole and make it mine Abhijay (☎ Talk) (✐ Deeds) 02:33, 16 February 2012 (UTC)

It's definitely not civil, and it's rude. I'm not sure I would call it a personal attack without knowing more context. --Chris (talk) 02:46, 16 February 2012 (UTC)

Heres more: ([7]). Crazycomputers, this issue has been going on for a long time now. I told him that we both made mistakes, and I told him I would accept his as well in good-faith, yet he is delivering more attacks on this User talk:Baseball Bugs, and insulting my editing habits further here: ([8]). I'd really recommend a block on this user because he is again going on insulting me in this ([9]). Abhijay (☎ Talk) (✐ Deeds) 02:54, 16 February 2012 (UTC)

I've looked into the situation a little and it's all a bit convoluted. I'm afraid I'm not terribly good at investigating these sorts of things in depth. Perhaps it would be more appropriate to take it to WP:ANI. --Chris (talk) 15:30, 16 February 2012 (UTC)

Thanks, will consider as this situation is getting out of hand. Abhijay (☎ Talk) (✐ Deeds) 18:01, 16 February 2012 (UTC)

Please also come there and decide what matter should be done to resolve the issue. Abhijay (☎ Talk) (✐ Deeds) 18:02, 16 February 2012 (UTC)

I may observe and chime in periodically, but I will let my more experienced colleagues spearhead the discussion. --Chris (talk) 18:03, 16 February 2012 (UTC)

Thanks and see you around :) Abhijay (☎ Talk) (✐ Deeds) 18:22, 16 February 2012 (UTC)

No problem. Note that you're supposed to notify editors when starting an ANI thread about them. I've done this for you. --Chris (talk) 18:26, 16 February 2012 (UTC)

I'm sorry about that, and In the near future I'll remember to do something like that, not let someone else do it for me. If Drmies is away, I just wanted to let you know that there's been a violation of the ANI Discussion as shown here ([10]). Anyways, I just wanted to thank you for your kind support in that ANI discussion and I'm grateful to have someone such as yourself do all you could to come to an agreeable solution. Again, Thanks a lot and happy days. :) Abhijay (☎ Talk) (✍ Stalk me) 05:01, 18 February 2012 (UTC)

I'm not sure that this is a violation of the spirit of the interaction ban, as he appears to be primarily discussing the interaction ban itself and not you. I would suggest that you ignore him where possible and don't dig through his contributions. Let others worry about enforcing the interaction ban. --Chris (talk) 20:27, 18 February 2012 (UTC)

Block IP address

Can you block this IP address: 206.248.123.79 for removing correct information and putting incorrect information? Thanks!NCISfan2 (talk) 17:35, 16 February 2012 (UTC)

It looks like there are lots of admin eyes on that IP following this report. I don't think a block is necessary at this time. --Chris (talk) 17:38, 16 February 2012 (UTC)

Well, according to this page the IP address has been blocked for falsey reporting vandalism with no expiry by me. Just in case you're wondering, I am part of Wikipedia:User warnings. So, I took care of it. No more need to worry about it. NCISfan2 (talk) 17:13, 17 February 2012 (UTC)

Adding an indef block template to the IP's userpage does not block the IP. The IP has in fact never been blocked. I've removed the template from the IP's userpage since the IP is not blocked and therefore the template was incorrect. --Chris (talk) 17:21, 17 February 2012 (UTC)

Ashford template

Hey. Thanks for pointing that out. It's the template I want to be deleted, not the sandbox it appeared on. I've replaced the template now. Should I use a different speedy delete for a template? Del_♉sion23 (talk) 18:19, 16 February 2012 (UTC)

G7 will still work if you are the only substantial author of the template, and it's not in widespread use. --Chris (talk) 18:22, 16 February 2012 (UTC)

Great, that's the situation here. Del_♉sion23 (talk) 18:27, 16 February 2012 (UTC)

Yup, it's gone now. :) --Chris (talk) 18:30, 16 February 2012 (UTC)

Delete edits on Michael Golay's page

Someone accessed my account and made changes to Michael Golay's wikipedia page, could you remove them from my account so they aren't linked to my page? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Nbishop92 (talk • contribs) 21:22, 26 February 2012 (UTC)

Help me

Discussion copied from User talk:Joseph A. Spadaro

{{adminhelp}} I would like to request the assistance of an admin. Please advise. Thanks! (Joseph A. Spadaro (talk) 06:03, 26 February 2012 (UTC)) You'll need to actually say what you need help with, as different admins work in different areas -- Boing! said Zebedee (talk) 11:38, 26 February 2012 (UTC) (non-admin comment) I suspect this is about the previous section here. -- John of Reading (talk) 20:58, 26 February 2012 (UTC) I don't see anything here that requires admin attention. Joseph, if you have a specific question or concern, please feel free to ask it and re-activate the {{adminhelp}} template. --Chris (talk) 19:03, 27 February 2012 (UTC)

Thanks to each of you. Apparently, the other editor (Choyoołʼįįhí:Seb az86556) has stopped harassing me. So, there is no issue at the moment. Thank you for your help and input. Much appreciated. Best, Joseph A. Spadaro (talk) 18:17, 28 February 2012 (UTC)

SPI

As you were the administrator that blocked Zenkai251, I wanted to cover all my bases and notify you that I opened an SPI report on them at Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Zenkai251 for what I suspect is block evasion. - SudoGhost 16:38, 29 February 2012 (UTC)

Thanks for the link. I'll definitely keep my eye on that investigation. --Chris (talk) 16:40, 29 February 2012 (UTC)

Thanks

Thanks want to be friends. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Nickerss (talk • contribs) 22:17, 29 February 2012 (UTC)

Unblock request

from HistoryofKushwaha

I have reviewed HistoryofKushwaha's unblock request. He is ready to be ublocked. Thanks! NCISfan2 (talk) 17:27, 1 March 2012 (UTC)

from Kathleenglica

I have reviewed Kathleengilca's unblock requests, that's right, reguests. All of them should be declined becuase it is supposed to be one at a time. Thanks! NCISfan2 (talk) 17:34, 1 March 2012 (UTC)

I appreciate your efforts, but the admin team is quite capable of appropriately responding to unblock requests. :) Why don't you find an article in need of improvement and work on it? --Chris (talk) 17:42, 1 March 2012 (UTC)

Protection on 2011–12 Serie A

Please cancel the semi-protection for the Serie A 2011-12 page, which obstructs timely updates. Many thanks. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 92.75.217.47 (talk) 17:54, 4 March 2012 (UTC)

Review

Please review the following: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Enforcement#Request_concerning_Tiamut
Regardless if I am sanctioned, I would really like the antisemitic content removed.
Regards, Jaakobou^{Chalk Talk} 17:13, 6 March 2012 (UTC)

Unfortunately, it looks like the consensus is that the content is fine. As an administrator, I am trusted with access to extra tools, with the understanding that I will use them in accordance with community consensus. It would be a violation of that trust to apply these tools to remove this content when the community has decided that it is acceptable. --Chris (talk) 08:57, 7 March 2012 (UTC)

If you have a point of view on the validity of such content as a 'welcome to my talkpage' note, I would really appreciate it if you add it to the WP:AE discussion. You can also review my personal perspective on the supposed validity of the "no consensus" situation there.

Thank you for your time, Jaakobou^{Chalk Talk} 12:31, 7 March 2012 (UTC)

Unblock/Sandbox

Thanks for your help with unblocking my account and sorting my username out crazycomputers - There is one more thing I was wondering you could help me with. When I was blocked my sandbox was deleted. Do you know if I am I able to get this back? I had been trying a few things out on it and would like to see them again! Thanks again for your help. Za'atar94 (talk) 16:18, 1 March 2012 (UTC)

Yup, I've undeleted it for you. --Chris (talk) 16:21, 1 March 2012 (UTC)

Thank you! Za'atar94 (talk) 17:23, 7 March 2012 (UTC)

77.254.134.147

Please help me with IP 77.254.134.147 and the editing war he has dragged me into. The user has hundreds of edits on both Polish and English name spaces concerning only topic: Nokias Meego-based N9 vs Nokia Windows Phone-based Lumia-devices - good vs evil, Linux vs Microsoft. I'm not interested in the debate (which I knew nothing about before this), I simply want to bring the WP and Lumia -articles to normal standard. IP user is bringing bias into the concerned articles and is aggressively defending and "owning" many times fictional and unsourced negative claims. Now my talk page is the users new target. I'm a grown-up person, and this is utterly frustrating!--Caygill (talk) 14:12, 11 March 2012 (UTC)

I have left a note on your talk page that is mostly directed at the IP editor. The article in question has already been protected, so there isn't anything left for administrators to do here unless this escalates further. Cheers, --Chris (talk) 22:19, 11 March 2012 (UTC)

Ok, thanks. The article of concern is actually Nokia Lumia 800, not the already protected Nokia N9. There are big issues with N9, but the article I tried to build - and got attacked with - was Lumia 800 (and peers). I have posted a consolidating message on the concerned IP:s talk page, which I hope would put an end to this matter. Thanks again! --Caygill (talk) 13:10, 12 March 2012 (UTC)

Re:173.234.0.0/16

Hi Chris, actually I've only changed the block to anonymous only since an user were complain about it. Basically this network belongs to a large hosting facility containing several open proxies. Actually this prefix is not supposed to originate legitimate traffic but I switched the block to anon-only when an user showed me his working place holds a VPN exiting through it. Feel free to use Special:GlobalBlockWhitelist but actually I cannot see relevant side effects to an anon-only block. Have a nice day! --Vituzzu (talk) 13:03, 12 March 2012 (UTC)

Thanks, this is exactly the info I was looking for. --Chris (talk) 13:51, 12 March 2012 (UTC)

NCISfan2

Hi, Crazycomputers. I see you're having a time of it with NCISfan2, too. I've come across evidence that suggest he's a sockpuppet, and may be reopening the SPI on User:WBJB03 and his sock User:WBJB003 soon. I have to give you a pat on the back for your patience with this editor, and a heads up about the potential SPI. --Drmargi (talk) 02:34, 17 March 2012 (UTC)

Thanks for the pointer. I suspected that the editor might not be new. I guess we'll see where the SPI goes. --Chris (talk) 03:44, 17 March 2012 (UTC)

He's blocked, although he's still editing his talk page although he's oblivious to it. --Drmargi (talk) 20:04, 18 March 2012 (UTC)

Not a really big deal, but...

Hi, CC. I agree with the principle, but I don't see your rationale spelled out on the page to which you linked. Am I missing something? Tiderolls 04:19, 17 March 2012 (UTC)

Erm, apparently the page is missing something. :/ Guess I haven't read that guideline in two weeks. --Chris (talk) 04:21, 17 March 2012 (UTC)

Schnikes...that means I have to read the policies and guidelines ever other day.......or some such unreasonable expectation... Tiderolls 04:37, 17 March 2012 (UTC)

Yet another vandal on Dera Sacha Sauda

Greetings, you recently blocked User:Biharibhai for being a Vandalism-only Account, putting inappropriate/demeaning animal pictures into the article Dera Sacha Sauda (a religious organisation in India). The same type of edits for which User:Myrambharose was blocked. It's only days later and User:Gufawala swapped bio photos for a picture of donkeys mating. Oddly enough, it's not a new-reg account, but has been active since January. Not sure if the original vandal just set up multiple "parachute accounts" or if it's a group, but it is an ongoing disruption. Would you suggest page protection, or an IP block to keep him from making new accounts? MatthewVanitas (talk) 20:01, 18 March 2012 (UTC)

I've blocked the latest account indef too. Page protection probably won't help much, as the vandal seems to have no problem waiting long periods of time to conduct this vandalism. --Chris (talk) 20:09, 18 March 2012 (UTC)

Much obliged. I'll just keep it watchlisted, and maybe ask some other folks at WikiProject India to watchlist it too. It might not hurt to request the copulating donkeys pic be restricted to pertinent donkey/mating-related articles, as it seems to have substantial misuse potential. It actually is kind of a funny prank pic, but unfortunately not constructive. MatthewVanitas (talk) 20:15, 18 March 2012 (UTC)

Request deletion of slander

Hello, Would you mind deleting this revision if you can? I think it is libel. Thanks, Superp (talk) 11:10, 19 March 2012 (UTC)

This one was borderline (the literal translation being "I like teens" which is not overtly sexual in nature) but being cautious I have gone ahead and deleted it. --Chris (talk) 15:06, 19 March 2012 (UTC)

tks Superp (talk) 16:50, 19 March 2012 (UTC)

Well rats

I'm sorry, Chris, I didn't notice your question to NCISfan2 until after I declined the request and locked his talk page. Please, feel free to undo anything I did if you think it would be productive. I don't think it will be, but I certainly didn't mean to step on your toes. --Floquenbeam (talk) 17:45, 19 March 2012 (UTC)

It's no problem. I think there's a high chance he is just trolling us, but I was just trying to AGF and see if there is an alternate explanation for the block evasion. --Chris (talk) 18:01, 19 March 2012 (UTC)

Yeah, if it was just block evasion, I could see trying to salvage something, but it was long term disruption with competency issues, and the socking was just to avoid previous indef blocks. I figured it was time to cut bait. But I'd have let you give it a shot if I'd noticed. --Floquenbeam (talk) 18:16, 19 March 2012 (UTC)

UTRS

I confirm that I have requested an account on the UTRS tool. --Chris (talk)

I've approved your account. Thanks for registering!--v/r - TP 18:14, 19 March 2012 (UTC)

Dang, that was quick. Thanks! --Chris (talk) 18:15, 19 March 2012 (UTC)

We got IRC notifications.--v/r - TP 18:16, 19 March 2012 (UTC)

\o/ --Chris (talk) 18:17, 19 March 2012 (UTC)

Blocking based on invalid warning

I am sorry to bother you here, but the unblock procedure makes no sense to me. Here is the diff i am unhappy about. http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk%3A93.96.148.42&diff=482715839&oldid=482658583 As you can see, another user gave me a warning that is only valid if given by an administrator- which i imagine he shouldn't do. I explained that, and that no warning was present on the page in question, which that user then added to that page. I would be most grateful if you would rescind the block. If I have misunderstood what happened, i beg your pardon.93.96.148.42 (talk) 04:52, 21 March 2012 (UTC)

From what I saw before placing the block, you have been warned about ARBPIA before (also not by an admin, but warned nonetheless) and about edit warring in general. Going into the war that got you blocked, you knew about ARBPIA. You knew that edit warring is not tolerated. I therefore contend that the block was in fact valid.

Your defense that only administrators are allowed to warn someone about ARBPIA appears to me as wikilawyering. When you already know that certain behavior will lead to a block, a warning in the midst of that behavior (no matter the source) is a courtesy and is not mandatory.

The block has already expired and so there is nothing to rescind, but you are welcome to have my actions reviewed by other uninvolved administrators if you think the block was made in error. --Chris (talk) 05:08, 21 March 2012 (UTC)

I would like that if possible. While I understand that anyone can warn about anything, the warning I was given by the user was one that should have been used by an administrator, and the user did not sign it - giving me the impression that he was trying to mislead me. I also asked him to add the relevant warning to the page, which he did. I do not see how that constitutes edit warring, and I made no further edits to the page in question after receiving that warning so I feel that it was unjustified. I also feel that i was quite justified to ask him what page he was talking about, given the number of edits I make. He was also rather rude. 93.96.148.42 (talk) 05:21, 21 March 2012 (UTC)

Shrike had already warned you just five days earlier about ARBPIA, so I really don't see how you can excuse this warring: 1 2. You are free to open discussion about my block at WP:RFC or WP:ANI if you would like my actions reviewed. But beware that such requests will cause your edits to be scrutinized as well. --Chris (talk) 15:12, 21 March 2012 (UTC)

Every article that is have to do with conflict is under 1RR even if it doesn't have any banner.--Shrike (talk) 07:20, 21 March 2012 (UTC)

Healthnet11

Hi Chris. Just a quick note to let you know that I've commented here. Jakew (talk) 11:01, 21 March 2012 (UTC)

Question

Awadal stat where do you get your information from ?? i wonder there is no country by this name.... — Preceding unsigned comment added by 3abdush 77 (talk • contribs) 21:25, 23 March 2012 (UTC)

Why are you asking me? I do not edit those articles. --Chris (talk) 21:28, 23 March 2012 (UTC)

WTF

Yo bro

Why you deleting my posts? what's your problem man? I'm just telling it how it really is. Don't be jealous that u dont know the truth.. Aight.. Bitch — Preceding unsigned comment added by Benohana123 (talk • contribs)

The reason your addition was deleted is thoroughly explained on your user talk page. --Chris (talk) 22:08, 23 March 2012 (UTC)

Transdev York & Coastliner

You blocked Transdev York & Coastliner (talk · contribs). Just wanted to note that in this diff they admit to representing the company. As soon as you blocked they continued with the reverts from 94.2.100.199 (talk · contribs · info · WHOIS). I've Aiv'd it but thought I'd let you know as you put the block in - cheers. QU ^TalkQu 22:34, 23 March 2012 (UTC)

They also created a new account, which I've indeffed. This time I turned on autoblocking, so they shouldn't be able to edit from their IP for a day without successfully appealing the block. --Chris (talk) 22:38, 23 March 2012 (UTC)

Super, thanks - QU ^TalkQu 22:40, 23 March 2012 (UTC)

Armbrust

Hi, you blocked User:Armbrust about 48 hours ago, for 48 hours, for edit warring on Snooker templates. Now, instead of discussing things at Template talk:Snooker world rankings, this user is back to edit warring again. Reverting changes on snooker templates (see here. Frietjes (talk) 15:30, 28 March 2012 (UTC)

Whoo! I just reverted the templates to a long-standing format, which was first used on 13 April 2009. Now Frietjes changes them all, and think he's right. Sorry, but I think it doesn't work this way, this format was used for almost 2 years, thus theres is an implicit consensus for it. Until last weekend nobody wanted to change it. I don't made any change to the template, I just reverted to the state before the dispute. Frietjes wants to make this changes, than xe should discuss them, before unilaterally making them. Armbrust, B.Ed. ^{Let's talk}_{about my edits?} 15:40, 28 March 2012 (UTC)

Also the discussion at Template talk:Snooker world rankings, doesn't contain any discussion about other templates. Armbrust, B.Ed. ^{Let's talk}_{about my edits?} 15:41, 28 March 2012 (UTC)

Also if you look at the page, you can see, that Frietjes doesn't engage in discussion for his preferred changes. Armbrust, B.Ed. ^{Let's talk}_{about my edits?} 16:06, 28 March 2012 (UTC)

This is a bit ridiculous. There isn't an excuse for this behavior. I have blocked you both for edit warring. After the blocks expire, you both need to follow the dispute resolution process. --Chris (talk) 16:20, 28 March 2012 (UTC)

• I've started at project discussion regarding these template changes at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Snooker#Template changes. This dispute clearly needs to move into a discussion phase, but the problem now is that both warring parties are blocked! Would you consider unblocking both editors on the condition that neither of them initiate layout changes/revert on the snooker templates, so they can both join the discussion? Either way, once their blocks run down they will either start warring again or join the discussion, so if they both agree to not alter the templates then we can get this thing moving. Betty Logan (talk) 02:04, 29 March 2012 (UTC)
  • If they agree not to edit the appearance of the templates until their discussion concludes then yes, the blocks would no longer be necessary to prevent disruption. --Chris (talk) 03:13, 29 March 2012 (UTC)
  • And, just to clarify, any admin may lift either or both of these blocks without contacting me if the blocked parties agree to the terms above. I'm definitely not on here 24/7, so feel free to seek out another admin if I'm not responsive. --Chris (talk) 03:17, 29 March 2012 (UTC)

As he's unresponsive to concerns, returned to edit-warring immediately after his last block, and does not appear to be at all reflective on his actions, I wholeheartedly disagree. (talk→ BWilkins ←track) 10:52, 29 March 2012 (UTC)

Wiki Project Management Class Interview, Michigan State University Reasearch Project

Hi, my name is Matt Cavanaugh. I am a student at Michigan State University, working on an exploration of the Wikipedia adminship process under Dr. Jonathan Obar. I was wondering if you were still interested in participating in an interview about your experiences with the adminship process via email. Message me on here or email me at cavana60msu.edu. Thank you for your interest.

Cavana60 (talk) 06:58, 2 April 2012 (UTC)

Sure, I'd still be interested in participating. Feel free to send me an email and we'll get started. --Chris (talk) 08:58, 2 April 2012 (UTC)

Invitation to events in June and July: bot, script, template, and Gadget makers wanted

I invite you to the yearly Berlin hackathon, 1-3 June. Registration is now open. If you need financial assistance or help with visa or hotel, then please register by May 1st and mention it in the registration form.

This is the premier event for the MediaWiki and Wikimedia technical community. We'll be hacking, designing, teaching, and socialising, primarily talking about ResourceLoader and Gadgets (extending functionality with JavaScript), the switch to Lua for templates, Wikidata, and Wikimedia Labs.

We want to bring 100-150 people together, including lots of people who have not attended such events before. User scripts, gadgets, API use, Toolserver, Wikimedia Labs, mobile, structured data, templates -- if you are into any of these things, we want you to come!

I also thought you might want to know about other upcoming events where you can learn more about MediaWiki customization and development, how to best use the web API for bots, and various upcoming features and changes. We'd love to have power users, bot maintainers and writers, and template makers at these events so we can all learn from each other and chat about what needs doing.

Check out the the developers' days preceding Wikimania in July in Washington, DC and our other events.

Best wishes! - Sumana Harihareswara, Wikimedia Foundation's Volunteer Development Coordinator. Please reply on my talk page, here or at mediawiki.org. Sumana Harihareswara, Wikimedia Foundation Volunteer Development Coordinator 01:25, 4 April 2012 (UTC)

Message

hi are you okay if i type you alot!!!??? — Preceding unsigned comment added by MaijahEvans11 (talk • contribs) 16:09, 5 April 2012 (UTC)

A kitten for you!

i am sorry thank you for sending me that note ;^)

MaijahEvans11 (talk) 16:14, 5 April 2012 (UTC)

Nathanielfirst

Go ahead and unblock (I think there was also a problem about overlinking). Dougweller (talk) 14:49, 13 April 2012 (UTC)

Armbrust

Hi. The user Armbrust is the most disruptive member of the community I have encountered. He just twice reverted a correct edit at the 2012 World Snooker Championship where in the context "Stephen Hendry's" was right over "Stephen Hendrys". Then when he realises it was correct the first time he rewrites the section for no apparent reason. It is this constant barrage of pointless reverts and edit wars and his attempts to "own" the snooker articles on here that make it almost impossible to contribute to any of the articles without him coming back 5 minutes later to change in the most minute way. Spc 21 (talk) 13:52, 16 April 2012 (UTC)

Hello

What is watch list bot.--Deathlaser :  Chat  17:20, 6 May 2012 (UTC)

It's a bot that sits on the XMPP federated chat network. You can tell it which articles to watch and it will send you an instant message immediately whenever one of them is edited. --Chris (talk) 18:13, 6 May 2012 (UTC)

Vandal Sniper Access

Hi, Can you check WP:SNIPE applications, or is the tool now non-operational? I would like to use this tool to help my vandalism-reverting attempts

Thanks in advance,

Mdann52 (talk) 18:15, 10 July 2012 (UTC)

Hey. User:AGK is the current moderator for tool access. Have you asked him to check your application? As far as the operability of the tool, I have not maintained it in years so right now the state is "it works if it works."  :) --Chris (talk) 18:26, 10 July 2012 (UTC)

Notification of RFC/U concerning Youreallycan

I'd like to notify you, as a previous blocking administrator, that I've initiated a Request for Comments/User concerning Youreallycan (talk · contribs). The RFC/U, which mentions your block, can be read at Wikipedia:Requests for comment/Youreallycan. Prioryman (talk) 14:36, 5 August 2012 (UTC)

Appeal

This appeal seems to have been forgotten. Can you please update it's status?--v/r - TP 22:29, 22 August 2012 (UTC)

The Olive Branch: A Dispute Resolution Newsletter (Issue #1)

Welcome to the first edition of The Olive Branch. This will be a place to semi-regularly update editors active in dispute resolution (DR) about some of the most important issues, advances, and challenges in the area. You were delivered this update because you are active in DR, but if you would prefer not to receive any future mailing, just add your name to this page.

Steven Zhang's Fellowship Slideshow

In this issue:

• Background: A brief overview of the DR ecosystem.
• Research: The most recent DR data
• Survey results: Highlights from Steven Zhang's April 2012 survey
• Activity analysis: Where DR happened, broken down by the top DR forums
• DR Noticeboard comparison: How the newest DR forum has progressed between May and August
• Discussion update: Checking up on the Wikiquette Assistance close debate
• Proposal: It's time to close the Geopolitical, ethnic, and religious conflicts noticeboard. Agree or disagree?

Read the entire first edition of The Olive Branch -->

--The Olive Branch 18:56, 4 September 2012 (UTC)

Hello II

Hi, I answerd your here. --WSC ^® 10:44, 8 September 2012 (UTC)

Widescreen (again)

I'm not sure if this might be considered a canvass but Widescreen seems to have resumed in making edits against the consensus without properly discussing it. CartoonDiablo (talk) 01:43, 9 September 2012 (UTC)

Deleted a page?

Hello, Crazycomputers! What happened to my page, Style guidelines for biographies of California public officials? Thank you, your friend, GeorgeLouis (talk) 05:13, 10 September 2012 (UTC)

It looks like it was moved to Wikipedia:Style guidelines for biographies of California public officials. Pages related to the functioning of Wikipedia itself belong in the Wikipedia namespace, not articlespace. --Chris (talk) 13:40, 10 September 2012 (UTC)

Thank you, Crazy! Have an insane day! GeorgeLouis (talk) 23:33, 10 September 2012 (UTC)

PiCo

I am disapointed that you, in effect, took PiCo side by letting him change the article as he likes and then protect the page just the way he wants it. If you look closly you will see there isn't any "discussion" on his part on the article talk page. He just made post on my talk page that should have gone there. tahc ^chat 01:44, 14 September 2012 (UTC)

I did not take anybody's side; I followed the page protection policy on this matter. --Chris (talk) 01:55, 14 September 2012 (UTC)

The page protection policy says in part "Since protecting the most current version sometimes rewards edit warring by establishing a contentious revision, administrators may also revert to an old version of the page predating the edit war if such a clear point exists." tahc ^chat 02:01, 14 September 2012 (UTC)

That "clear point" is the version you want, and the current version is the version he wants. No matter which I chose, somebody would be unhappy. I'd suggest trying to discuss this dispute with the other editor instead of trying to get your preferred version of the article displayed for the two days it will be protected. --Chris (talk) 14:53, 14 September 2012 (UTC)

FICS

FICS links to a disambiguation page, so I changed the link on your user page from that to Free Internet Chess Server and piped it. --I dream of horses @ 05:23, 26 September 2012 (UTC)

I saw, my bot IMed me for that change. :) Thanks for fixing it up. --Chris (talk) 05:24, 26 September 2012 (UTC)

No problem. It's the sort of work I do on Wikipedia anyway. --I dream of horses If you reply here, please leave me a {{Talkback}} message on my talk page. @ 05:25, 26 September 2012 (UTC)

I need help I have caused a mess

Hi Chris its Dale Embry. I noticed you live near Anderson I worked with Bill Gaither and Paul Sizelove of Gaither Music while working with Rick Hendrix. I started a wiki for him while my tenure at Rick Hendrix Company and after leaving I attempted to keep it up. People have recently decided to deleted the page. Would you be able to remove the deleted page from public view? I have pleaded my case with these other folks and they no longer email or correspond. I dont care if they think Mr Hendrix isnt worthy of a page-But their comments and opinions should not be a page about him searchable thru Google either. Please advise me or help me. Dalestorian (talk) 19:52, 28 September 2012 (UTC)

Hi Dale. Deleted pages and Articles for Deletion pages are not indexed by Google. As soon as Google checks his Wikipedia article again and finds that it is no longer eligible for indexing, the Wikipedia result for his name will disappear. The AfD page itself should never appear in Google results. Does this address your concerns? --Chris (talk) 20:25, 28 September 2012 (UTC)

Sorry link below

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rick_Hendrix

Dalestorian (talk) 20:05, 28 September 2012 (UTC)

Thank you Chris. I had a question. Just from the notes on the page do you feel my page is not notable for Hendrix? Or should I try and get it recreated? Dalestorian (talk) 20:28, 28 September 2012 (UTC)

As written, the article does not assert any of the points listed at WP:MUSICBIO. I would not recreate the article until you can demonstrate using reliable sources that he meets at least one of those criteria. And, as you have a conflict of interest regarding the subject, I would suggest instead using the articles for creation process so that your article can be reviewed before it becomes part of the encyclopedia. Declaring your conflict of interest (if you have not already done so) would also be wise, as it won't appear that you're trying to hide a connection. --Chris (talk) 20:32, 28 September 2012 (UTC)

PLEASE REMOVE/ DELETE REVISION HISTORY!!!

Hi! Could you please remove/delete the entire revision history asap on the page listed below? I would really really appreciate it. thank you!!!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Endre_Boros — Preceding unsigned comment added by Pieditor (talk • contribs) 02:39, 29 November 2012 (UTC)

Under which revdel criterion? --Chris (talk) 21:47, 14 December 2012 (UTC)

TeamSentaSecurity

Quick question about the threats the user issued do I need to email emergency@wikimedia? Or should I not bother? --Cameron11598 (Converse) 20:51, 28 March 2013 (UTC)

Based on the discussion in #wikipedia-en, I believe someone already has reported it. --Chris (talk) 20:52, 28 March 2013 (UTC)

Or the decision was reached not to report it, since it was not a threat to any person. The technical team may be made aware so they can assess the severity of the threat against the WMF network, but the consensus seems to be that it's not something that emergency@ needs to know, since it's not a threat against any person. --Chris (talk) 20:53, 28 March 2013 (UTC)

Thanks! --Cameron11598 (Converse) 20:54, 28 March 2013 (UTC)

Because you said "If another admin disagrees with revdel in this case, they are free to revert this decision without my consent", I've restored the edits. This is purely because of the possibility that Philippe might contact the city and the possibility that someone from the city might need to see the edits; if that weren't being considered, I wouldn't have seen any reason to undelete them. If we hear that Philippe has decided not to notify them, I'll happily redelete them unless you get there before I do. Nyttend (talk) 22:49, 28 March 2013 (UTC)

Sounds reasonable. Thanks for keeping me informed. --Chris (talk) 18:53, 29 March 2013 (UTC)

Urgent

Chris, could you please do a UTRS pull immediately? Toolserver has a new IP address. See changes here and VP:T thread here.--v/r - TP 12:37, 17 April 2013 (UTC)

Done. --Chris (talk) 13:13, 17 April 2013 (UTC)

Thanks--v/r - TP 13:31, 17 April 2013 (UTC)

Need another pull.--v/r - TP 15:31, 18 April 2013 (UTC)

Will do. We should probably make this a matter of config instead of being hardcoded. There's no reason we should have to change code for this, IMO. --Chris (talk) 15:35, 18 April 2013 (UTC)

RFC bot

I noticed that you blocked the IP address for User:RFC bot a.k.a. User:Chris G. It looks like Chris G is on Wikibreak, and had previously tried to get someone to take over his bots (see Wikipedia:Bot_owners'_noticeboard#Four_bots,_looking_for_a_good_home). Anyway, I wasn't sure if you were aware of this or not, or if you can do anything to remedy it, but I thought I'd let you know, since RFC bot seems to have a lot of work to do. ~Adjwilley (talk) 20:59, 6 September 2013 (UTC)

There's also a note from User:Legoktm at ANI regarding blocking IPs in that range. I probably should have notified you that I mentioned your block at ANI, I apologize for not doing so and appreciate your quick action on it. Cheers! --Tgeairn (talk) 22:00, 6 September 2013 (UTC)

https

I have a question/possible enhancement for WatchlistBot. I use https to access Wikipedia at all times, and I do not log in over the http connection. Therefore, every time I click a link from WatchlistBot, I am thrown into a non-logged-in unencrypted page and I have to manually edit the "https" in the URL. Is there some way we can set a flag so that all links point to the https area instead? Thanks for your work! Elizium23 (talk) 17:48, 28 July 2013 (UTC)

I will look into this and see if it's easily possible. Right now I just pass the URL straight through as it was received on IRC, so I will have to add code to parse the URL out and recreate it as an HTTPS link. --Chris (talk) 23:36, 22 October 2013 (UTC)

It is interesting; after I posted this, at some point, whenever I got a message from WatchlistBot, while it was clearly pointing to an http URL, when I clicked it I would be directed to the https equivalent. I don't know why this started happening, maybe Wikipedia changed something internally; you didn't change anything, right? At any rate, I would now call this "handled" because I am not having the trouble I mentioned anymore. Elizium23 (talk) 23:46, 22 October 2013 (UTC)

No, I haven't made changes to WLB in many months. Perhaps there is a non-HTTPS cookie set when you sign in using HTTPS that the non-HTTPS site detects and redirects you to the HTTPS site. Anyway, glad it's resolved; that makes my life easier. :) (And yours, I suspect.) --Chris (talk) 23:48, 22 October 2013 (UTC)

WOw

it is a very well known fact through my teachers, and my source was my physics professor, ask any physics teacher in the world if in any shape or form centrifugal force is a actual force, it isnt, is the lack of centripetal force that people assume to be centrifugal, like the lack of the wall on the holes on a salad spinner, since there is no wall, there is nothing to push the water so it gets pushed out — Preceding unsigned comment added by 99.244.72.96 (talk) 23:40, 22 October 2013 (UTC)

Regardless of whether or not that is true, the salad spinner article is a completely inappropriate place to have that debate. If you think that this force is fictitious then the proper place to start a discussion on this viewpoint (insofar as it relates to the appropriate article) is Talk:Centrifugal force. --Chris (talk) 23:44, 22 October 2013 (UTC)

Missed the Talk page

Hello, Crazycomputers … You missed deleting the Talk page for Rai Baripal Chand (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) when you did the Speedy Delete. Happy Editing! — 96.231.5.47 (talk · contribs) _{23:58, 22 October 2013 (UTC)}

Hmm, I remember checking for one and I don't think one existed at the time... the editor was probably creating it as I was deleting the article. Thanks for bringing it to my attention. I've deleted it. Cheers, --Chris (talk) 23:59, 22 October 2013 (UTC)

2013 in British music charts

There's no need for two tables titled number one compilation albums. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 31.51.83.90 (talk) 15:22, 23 October 2013 (UTC)

I completely missed the fact that the chart had been duplicated, and went back and removed it again. Thanks for your contribution and I apologize for my error. --Chris (talk) 15:25, 23 October 2013 (UTC)

Washington, D.C. mayoral election, 2014

the destructive delete the 'I suffered more than three times, on this page, are acandidato to the position of mayor for the city of Washington, then left intact or my two lines or who clears my part that destroys, I rewrite my part for the fourth time — Preceding unsigned comment added by 93.50.86.136 (talk) 17:40, 23 October 2013 (UTC)

If you are having trouble with formatting or citations then feel free to ask for assistance, but please do not delete entire sections of the page without a good reason. --Chris (talk) 17:44, 23 October 2013 (UTC)

changes

mind your own business JACK  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 66.114.29.5 (talk) 14:29, 24 October 2013 (UTC) 

archive.is

I tried to add some references to article Carbon print and an automated filter disallowed it. Problem is with archiving website(archive.is); removed it and insert original solved the problem. http://archive.is/B0Kuw is archived and http://unblinkingeye.com/Articles/Carbon/carbon.html is original link. Try without login.-- 117.216.71.4 (talk) 15:56, 25 October 2013 (UTC)

I'm happy you got the problem resolved, though I'm a bit confused why you're discussing it with me since I've never edited that particular article as far as I know. Am I missing some context? --Chris (talk) 15:58, 25 October 2013 (UTC)

I asked you because, I think this is a technical issue ; why automated filter filter blocking archived links, isn't it necessary or better to archive every link provided, for avoiding rotlinks.-- 117.216.71.4 (talk) 16:06, 25 October 2013 (UTC)

I don't work much with edit filters so I'm not sure I can assist you here. I'd suggest asking Kww (talk · contribs) instead, as he's the one to last change the filter that prevented you from adding that source and he'll likely know of the abuse that led to the creation of that filter. Cheers, --Chris (talk) 16:11, 25 October 2013 (UTC)

Copied it to User talk:Kww#archive.is.Thank you.--117.216.71.4 (talk) 16:18, 25 October 2013 (UTC)

He didn't answer me and I wondered why, then I saw this(Wikipedia:Archive.is RFC). He wouldn't think I intentionally put that question on his page right? :)-- 117.208.219.184 (talk) 13:54, 26 October 2013 (UTC)

Right-to-work_law

I don't understand your undo or the need for citation. The item is simply the first item in a list of things that are found in ref 18, the Economic Policy Institute document in pdf form. I know that item is in there and I think all the rest of the items are to. I thought someone understand that the Economic Policy Institute document itself is sourced at the bottom of the pdf. 18 is the citation.

Jackhammer111 (talk) 06:56, 9 November 2013 (UTC)

Request for comment

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Unblock request

I'm reviewing the unblock request by User:Pingsonthewing and with his promise not to continue reverting, and his understanding of the differences in the 3RR bright line versus edit warring, would you be opposed to my unblocking them? I'd do the same with the other user if they made a similar request. Thanks! Dreadstar ☥ 21:37, 27 May 2014 (UTC)

Unfortunately, User:Docram chose a different style unblock statement. Dreadstar ☥ 21:52, 27 May 2014 (UTC)

The blocks I placed were based on the facts I observed, namely that (a) both users were engaged in edit warring, walking right up to the 3RR line in a short span of time, and (b) neither indicated to my satisfaction that they intended to discuss instead of trying to force their way. However, I am open to appeals and differing interpretations. I generally don't care if another admin lifts my blocks if they believe the situation warrants an unblock (I'm not perfect!), but I do appreciate you checking with me first. --Chris (talk) 02:04, 28 May 2014 (UTC)

They were good blocks, I'd have blocked both of them too. It was the updated unblock request by Pigsonthewing that made me consider unblocking them; and despite the wall of text 'blame' unblock request by Doncram, the tacit admission of wrongdoing with the 'shorten my block' statement; along with Pigsonthewing's statement that they would no longer revert, there was nothing to prevent (blocks being preventative, not punitive, and all). So, yeah, good block Chris. Dreadstar ☥ 04:15, 28 May 2014 (UTC)

Ah, fair enough. Thanks for the clarification. --Chris (talk) 14:09, 28 May 2014 (UTC)

Revdel request

Hi, Can you please help me with a Revision Deletion? I may have gotten carried away with my comments and it was seen by a coworker. Any help would be greatly appreciated I am referring to the 3 times I made an EDIT SUMMARY on this page regarding our real names and safety concerns. Thank you! I hope I did this correctly according to your instructions

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elvis_Duran_and_the_Morning_Show — Preceding unsigned comment added by 65.209.23.146 (talk) 17:59, 5 August 2014 (UTC)

Can you including links to the specific diffs you want suppressed? --Chris (talk) 17:58, 20 January 2015 (UTC)

Permission for RollBack

HI , I am actually a student of GCI (Google Code - In) and I have claimed a task where I have to work with Huggle. After installing it , I realized that we need RollBack permission for it. I really need to publish my work. Is it possible that I can get Rollback immediately ?

My user account is - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Anshoe

I don't feel comfortable granting this to an account without any contributions yet. :/ --Chris (talk) 17:59, 20 January 2015 (UTC)

Request for Rollback.

hi, i would like to be granted access to "rollback" reason why is, i see alot of Vandalism on some pages. of course admins tries to prevent that, but sometimes there need to be people like me who can help pages not to be ruined by vandalism. and i won't ever misuse the permissions in any possible way if i get it granted, i will take full responsibility for my actions with this feature, best regards. Applejacksmith (talk) 20:10, 5 February 2015 (UTC)

Hi Applejacksmith. Please see the note on my talk page. Best regards, Arbitrarily0 ^(talk) 18:59, 6 February 2015 (UTC)

ok thanks for the answer.Applejacksmith (talk) 21:40, 6 February 2015 (UTC)

Thoughtless edit summaries!

In correcting a particularly obnoxious bit of vandalism on the Hiri trade cycle article I left a highly inappropriate edit summary. I will not copy it here, or (worse) translate it - but believe me it is really disgusting. At the moment I hit the "save page" button I think I probably forgot that while the edit summary in question will not be understood by very many Wiki users, the users it will be understood by are quite likely to visit this article!

Regardless, I am really bothered that anything as bad as this is enshrined in my my name, even on an edit summary. I hasten to add that the actual edit summarised is a straight and obvious vandalism correction - it's only the edit summary itself that needs to go - perhaps to be replaced with a simple "Revert vandalism" note. If this is possible. --Soundofmusicals (talk) 00:07, 2 March 2015 (UTC)

I have removed the edit summary in question. --Chris (talk) 23:31, 23 March 2015 (UTC)

Thank you very much indeed. Swearing is still swearing even if it is not understood. Actually Motu (including its Hiri variety) is a lovely language for swearing in, but everything in its place! All kidding aside, I am very grateful. --Soundofmusicals (talk) 09:24, 24 March 2015 (UTC)

Preciso. Da vossa ajuda! I need of you for help me — Preceding unsigned comment added by Alejadro Domingos (talk • contribs) 13:27, 21 May 2015 (UTC)

Quixotic plea

You are invited to join the discussion at Wikipedia talk:Wikipediholism test. Thanks. — {{U|Technical 13}} (e • t • c) 04:45, 23 May 2015 (UTC)

Hello from the past

Hey, are you still active on Wiki? Jaakobou^{Chalk Talk} 08:05, 30 October 2015 (UTC)

From time to time, yes. --Chris (talk) 16:10, 9 November 2015 (UTC)

Have you heard of the recent wave of stabbing (and other) attacks in Israel? I have reintroduced the issue of poetic militancy (aka "sharpen the weapons") due to the multiple daily stabbings. My original complaint is more valid than ever. As you saw the original complaint way back, I'd be happy if you review the matter a second time. See here. Jaakobou^{Chalk Talk} 20:56, 9 November 2015 (UTC)

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http://watchlistbot.chrishowie.com DOWN - 502

http://watchlistbot.chrishowie.com shows "502 Bad Gateway nginx/1.6.2" — Preceding unsigned comment added by Elvey (talk • contribs)

Thanks for letting me know. For some reason the backend process is occasionally crashing and fails to restart by itself.  :( --Chris (talk) 21:51, 8 January 2016 (UTC)

Thanks. Its up....

AND: I suspect I stumbled on a potential security issue in your app. I'm emailing you the details, Chris.

This is the error I'm seeing:

Runtime Error

A runtime error has occurred

Description: An application error occurred on the server. The current custom error settings for this application prevent the details of the application error from being viewed (for security reasons).

Details: To enable the details of this specific error message to be viewable, please create a <customErrors> tag within a "web.config" configuration file located in the root directory of the current web application. This <customErrors> tag should then have its "mode" attribute set to "Off".

<!-- Web.Config Configuration File -->

<configuration>
    <system.web>
        <customErrors mode="Off"/>
    </system.web>
</configuration>
Notes: The current error page you are seeing can be replaced by a custom error page by modifying the "defaultRedirect" attribute of the application's <customErrors> configuration tag to point to a custom error page URL.

<!-- Web.Config Configuration File -->

<configuration>
    <system.web>
        <customErrors mode="RemoteOnly" defaultRedirect="mycustompage.htm"/>
    </system.web>
</configuration>

Version Information: 3.4.0 ((no/c3fc3ba Wed Jul 2 14:50:54 UTC 2014); ASP.NET Version: 4.0.30319.17020

--Elvey^(t•c) 03:19, 9 January 2016 (UTC)

Thanks for your bug report. I've investigated and there is no security issue here. The value was stored correctly (as you entered it) into the database, and was being correctly read back out and escaped properly in every case I examined. The "runtime error" was actually the web framework aborting the request because it perceived the request to be malicious, as it contained a value that resembled an HTML tag. This is a framework feature that tries to prevent XSS attacks, but in this case actually prevented a legitimate request. I have disabled this feature. Please try to remove this entry again. (Thanks for giving me the details privately, and for your concern. I appreciate you disclosing the details responsibly, even if it turned out not to be a security problem. Better safe than sorry!) --Chris (talk) 03:48, 9 January 2016 (UTC)

Appreciate the response. You've convinced me. Solid explanation. (I wouldn't have disabled it - defence in depth and all.) I've removed the entry. (I guess I could have removed it on the command line w/o the disablement.) --Elvey^(t•c) 08:07, 10 January 2016 (UTC)

I thought about leaving it enabled, but the entire purpose of this feature is to prevent XSS attacks. It will only choke on posted data that looks like HTML. Since this utility doesn't show you other users' data, the only way you could conceivably be attacked is by yourself (or someone with your credentials, and in that case you have bigger problems). So I don't think that this feature defends against a reasonably useful attack vector. --Chris (talk) 20:37, 10 January 2016 (UTC)

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False news published

The article is wrong. I am Orlando Iannotta and I am the designer of the J4 aircraft not the Airmak. Raffaele Violetti (Airmak) has stolen my project and he is not the designer. Please publish the following information:

J4 has been totally designed by Orlando Iannotta (aeronautical engineer) who authorized Raffaele Violetti (Airmak) to industrialize and produce the ultralight and to share the business adventure. Violetti, once received plans, drawings and designs, betrayed Iannotta and joined Proietti to produce the aircraft. In simple words J4 project has been stolen from Iannotta and should be returned to the original owner. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 87.1.199.87 (talk) 20:06, 1 January 2018 (UTC)

Do you have a reliable source for this information? --Chris (talk) 20:08, 1 January 2018 (UTC)

Delete this Page.

The information is either wrong or a complete lie. I don't know who did this but it was without my approval. I want this page deleted.

                                                                                                                    Tony Fate.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by TF61 (talk • contribs) 20:11, 1 January 2018 (UTC) 

Please use Talk:Tony Fate the article's talk page to raise any issues you have with the article's content. Content that is verifiable and relevant cannot be removed, but you are certainly welcome to propose edits. Blanking the page repeatedly, however, is not productive. --Chris (talk) 20:15, 1 January 2018 (UTC)

Delete this Page.

The information is either wrong or a complete lie. I don't know who did this but it was without my approval. I want this page deleted. I didn't create this page. I don't know who created this page. The information has caused me problems in the real world. I want this page deleted.

                                                                                                                    Tony Fate.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by TF61 (talk • contribs) 20:16, 1 January 2018 (UTC) 

Airmak J4

Please contact me at victorianusa@yahoo.com

I'd like to publish the following information: J4 has been totally designed by Orlando Iannotta (aeronautical engineer) who authorized Raffaele Violetti (Airmak) to industrialize and produce the ultralight and to share the business adventure. Violetti, once received plans, drawings and designs, betrayed Iannotta and joined Proietti to produce the aircraft. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 87.1.199.87 (talk) 20:19, 1 January 2018 (UTC)

As I requested above, do you have any reliable sources for this content? --Chris (talk) 20:24, 1 January 2018 (UTC)

Content removal

I removed the content as it had nothing to do with the book, and was just about the author. I then added the text to the authors page. I was going to remove more, and leave a summary in my last edit, but then I realized that almost everything is about the authors so I sent it to AFD. Ty for the heads up, I'll leave edit summaries in my first edits as well (I usually do, just slipped my mind this time). Elektricity (talk) 04:01, 2 January 2018 (UTC)

Thanks for following up. I'll remove the warning on your talk page. The edit looked like simple vandalism based on the lack of an edit summary. --Chris (talk) 04:02, 2 January 2018 (UTC)

Chris much sheepish I am, looks just like drive by vandalism in retrospect. Elektricity (talk) 04:08, 2 January 2018 (UTC)

No worries. It's clear that there was no intent to vandalize. --Chris (talk) 04:11, 2 January 2018 (UTC)

@Chris if you have a minute or two can you explain something to me? I have gone through the GNG policy page and the relevant section on books, but I am still not sure exactly what qualifies a book to be given a separate article from its author. There seem to be 5-4 books that I do not think fit the criteria, just like this one. example Going to Tehran could be included in Flynt Leverett but it has an article by itself. I don't want to just start an AFD cuz I am not 100% sure atm, can you look at the pages and tell me if they are worth AFD? or perhaps you can guide me to some helpful essay on notability of books? Elektricity (talk) 04:21, 2 January 2018 (UTC)

I think WP:BKCRIT might be what you're looking for? I'm not very good at evaluating subjective things so I tend to abstain from that and let others tackle those questions. You might wait to see how this AfD shakes out first -- maybe the comments (whether supporting or opposing deletion) will provide some additional wisdom that you can apply to the other articles. --Chris (talk) 04:25, 2 January 2018 (UTC)

Ivelisse Velez

Added source to Ivelisse Velez addition Zorbo678 (talk) —Preceding undated comment added 18:08, 2 January 2018 (UTC)

Thanks, it looked like vandalism at first glance. --Chris (talk) 18:21, 2 January 2018 (UTC)

Asking for Reason

Hey,

What is reason for my link removing ? , Is it against rules ? Is it not related post? Did I added wrong anchor ?

Thanks — Preceding unsigned comment added by AlexHales (talk • contribs) 08:59, 4 January 2018 (UTC)

Please have a look at our external links policy. Additionally, external links are generally placed in their own section, not in the main article content. --Chris (talk) 17:02, 4 January 2018 (UTC)

Hi!

I love you! --2601:205:C100:424D:FC71:7339:EDB3:9EEC (talk) 06:42, 13 January 2018 (UTC)

refute CSS changes

You removed a few words from the article:

Libdvdcss is actually _invaluable_ since there is no other reliable source (for all three types of protection).

Protection measures have not been completely defeated! If the drive adheres to region protection there is nothing you can do. And even if the drive let you access the feature, but not the title keys, then there is no guarantee that "Ethan Hawkes" approach will work.

cheers — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2003:C9:4BD5:1400:6006:4AF7:FEEB:1D26 (talk) 19:05, 23 October 2018 (UTC)

An encyclopedia should not make claims like "___ is invaluable." That is a judgement of worth, a point of view. Wikipedia could quote a source claiming that something is invaluable, if it substantially contributes to the article. --Chris (talk) 02:13, 24 October 2018 (UTC)

Fair enough. However, I removed your other edit since there is no evidence for your claim (yet?). Cheers, Wicky75 (talk) 14:47, 10 November 2018 (UTC)

Hi, again. You added to the article: "However, drives which do not enforce regional restrictions are inexpensive and _widely_ available, which makes regional restrictions largely ineffective as a component of CSS."

It is true, that many drives permit access to the feature on region code mismatch (which makes them vulnerable to "Ethan Hawkes" prediction; which then still may fail, especially if the producer leaves "unsafe" sectors unprotected -- so you wouldn't have a chance to get the title-key for the remaining "strong" sectors). However, RPC I drives (that's what you mean, don't you?) are (to my knowledge) quite rare. Do you have a source for your claim?

I won't argue that circumvention is quite easy (if you know what you're doing), however, for the regular guy it might be not that easy. Hence, libdvdcss (the popular lib that is the de-facto CSS circumvention for free software) states, that regional protection is an issue.

Thanks and Cheers, Wicky75 (talk) 13:15, 16 November 2018 (UTC)

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reverting my edit

Hi dude, or dudette, as the case may be, you left my other edits, which were constructive, thank you. Your straight reversion of my final paragraph in the lead does not stand up, imho. I merely took cited references from the text below, and summarized them in a sentence. Wikipolicy is clear that we don't need to clutter the leads with citations if the info is from below.

Sure, it might have sounded "gushy" to you, but if you re-read it, you'll realize each one is clearly cited in his "politics" section, ie: his position on Nato, oligarchs, etc. I'm a Canadian, with no affiliation to him.

It is important to briefly summarize the political beliefs of politicians. I think your reversion was hasty. I will leave it to your conscience to consider putting it back. Perhaps instead of a wholesale revert, which is always bad, you could consider strengthening the paragraph with "According to statements released during his campaign..." etc., or adding one of the citations?

I wish I knew how to reduce citations from giant gobbledygook passages to simply a number. If you know, please let me know how.

At least you didn't give me the "vandalism" "blocking" template nonsense, for which I thank you. The "sandbox' crack was a little condescending, but what the hey, I forgive you! Unless I screwed up a link, but I did check it...

The whole notion of a president getting elected by creating and acting in a TV show is hilarious and very modern by the way. The article should expand on this facet, imho. Cheers mate, Ben 184.66.50.117 (talk) 04:08, 23 April 2019 (UTC)

PS: sorry I didn't ping you @Crazycomputers: from my page. I don't keep a page. I closed my editor account years ago because I find the edit warring nimrods out there so tiresome. Peace and Love. BB

@184.66.50.117: I didn't actually revert any of your edits. The warning I left was meant for another user entirely. --Chris (talk)

excuse me but the changes I have made was important because there was unnecessary information added that is useless to keep it or I will sue you. thank you. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 178.80.151.80 (talk) 13:12, 26 April 2019 (UTC)

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IP number

Last week, you blocked an IP number for edit-warring on the Independent Journal Review page.[11] That same editor appears to be editing under different IP numbers to continue the edit-warring. I also strongly suspect a conflict of interest, given that the content that keeps getting edit-warred is self-sourced puffery. Snooganssnoogans (talk) 11:02, 6 May 2019 (UTC)

@Snooganssnoogans: Thanks for letting me know. I will monitor. --Chris (talk) 15:30, 6 May 2019 (UTC)

@Snooganssnoogans: I've requested protection at WP:RFPP WP:AN3. (I'm now a party to the dispute, having reverted anon's edits, therefore protecting it myself would be inappropriate.) --Chris (talk) 18:28, 6 May 2019 (UTC)

Locked MGTOW

Of course you did... They are not on SPLC list, https://www.splcenter.org/hate-map/by-ideology but PLEASE let more disparaging remarks from online feminist bloggers with one paragraph continue to be added. It may save a man's wallet one day. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Jtcampbell baseball (talk • contribs)

@Jtcampbell baseball: The talk page is not protected. There is an open discussion on the dispute resolution noticeboard. Pick a venue and discuss. --Chris (talk) 16:55, 7 May 2019 (UTC)

14:28, 16 May 2019 diff hist -371‎ 7 Little Johnstons ‎ WP:TONE -- We are not here to promote shows

That wasn't a promotion. That was just an overview what the series is about. I added something to the existing description. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 188.105.90.33 (talk) 04:56, 17 May 2019 (UTC)

My comment was regarding the following text, which appears to have been copied from a promotional source:

Amber and Trent Johnston are living the American dream. They have been happily married for 14 years and have five children ranging from 6 to 13 years old.

On paper, they might seem like your average family...yet in person, they attract a lot of attention.... because all seven members of the Johnston family – Amber, Trent, their two biological children, Jonah and Elizabeth, as well as their three adopted children, Anna, Emma and Alex - happen to have Achondroplasia Dwarfism.

Together, these spunky seven make up the largest known family of Achondroplasia dwarfs in the world, and even describe themselves as "the real life seven dwarfs".

This is not an appropriate tone for an encyclopedia, and adding this text is probably also a copyright violation. --Chris (talk) 19:53, 18 May 2019 (UTC)

WP:RFPP

I am confused why you declined my report to WP:RFPP for page protection for Old Town Road. It is clearly being heavily vandalized. If diffs are needed, I would be happy to provide some. StaticVapor message me! 22:41, 20 May 2019 (UTC)

@STATicVapor: When I was giving it the once-over I didn't see many edits in the past three days that were simple vandalism, which is why I made the decision I did. I'm happy to reconsider, though. Diffs would be useful, especially if there's some subtle vandalism that needs a bit of explanation. --Chris (talk) 23:04, 20 May 2019 (UTC)

These are from the last three days: Unsourced change, unexplained removal (WP:GWAR), vandalism, vandalism, vandalism, vandalism, vandalism, vandalism, test edit, vandalism, vandalism, unsourced NPOV vio, vandalism. StaticVapor message me! 01:57, 21 May 2019 (UTC)

@STATicVapor: Ah thanks. Yep, somehow I missed a lot of those. Semi'd for a week. --Chris (talk) 02:07, 21 May 2019 (UTC)

Thank you sir, appreciate your hard work as a admin :) StaticVapor message me! 02:51, 21 May 2019 (UTC)

quare

Hi. Can you fix the redirect? It should go to queer theory instead of some person. Quare is an aspect of queer theory exploring the intersectionality of race in queer theory. Gleeanon409 (talk) 23:40, 7 June 2019 (UTC)

@Gleeanon409: I replied on the redirect talk page. Please discuss there. --Chris (talk) 23:45, 7 June 2019 (UTC)

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Vinselma

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Istanbul_University — Preceding unsigned comment added by 5.46.191.4 (talk) 17:38, 18 June 2021 (UTC)

As seen in the discussion, I put the article from the history department of the university. Sources of a geologist(Celal Sengor) who offered extreme theories are cited.Istanbul University also has history on its coat of arms. However, it is constantly being changed as vandalism. https://www.istanbul.edu.tr/en/content/university/history

User:Visnelma is constantly trying to make black propaganda. The sources he wrote for a German article were removed from the article because they were not found ridiculous and serious. Hitler and Mussolini claim to be influenced by Atatürk. this person is clearly making black propaganda. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 5.46.191.4 (talk) 17:26, 18 June 2021 (UTC) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Beer_Hall_Putsch#Ataturk — Preceding unsigned comment added by 5.46.191.4 (talk) 17:26, 18 June 2021 (UTC)

Stop x nuvola with clock.svg Blocked – for a period of 72 hours by 331dot (talk · contribs). --Chris (talk) 17:38, 18 June 2021 (UTC)

Won't you review my academic resources?. trying to change the history of many institutions and vandalism. Will you allow this? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 5.46.191.4 (talk) 17:41, 18 June 2021 (UTC)

Impact on Nazi Germany https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Turkish_War_of_Independence in the same way, they are doing vandalism here as well and the resources they added have been removed. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 5.46.191.4 (talk) 17:44, 18 June 2021 (UTC)

My involvement in this incident is limited only to a clerical close of the WP:ANEW thread because the reported user was already blocked by a different administrator. I do not currently have the interest or time to investigate the sourcing of this article. Please continue discussion on the article's talk page, where parties with the time and interest can discuss. --Chris (talk) 17:47, 18 June 2021 (UTC)

Then why did you block me for 72 hours? It deletes all the references I wrote in the discussion. rejects the sources in the university's history. Aren't you going to punish this person? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 5.46.191.4 (talk • contribs)

I did not block you, and neither did the administrator who applied the block to the other IP address. If you were blocked, you would not be able to write on my talk page. --Chris (talk) 17:52, 18 June 2021 (UTC)

AIV

Hi. I reported 2605:A601:AAD8:EE00:9075:A7C3:BF56:42BE (talk · contribs · (/64) · deleted contribs · filter log · WHOIS · RBLs · http · block user · block log) at AIV and you rejected the report claiming they were not a vandal. But repeated removal of sourced information from an article is vandalism. Indeed MaterialScientist blocked that IP for disruptive editing moment after you rejected the report at AIV. Laplorfill (talk) 15:37, 19 June 2021 (UTC)

If the IP was blocked by another administrator then what are you hoping to achieve with this thread on my talk page? --Chris (talk) 15:39, 19 June 2021 (UTC)

My hope is that you will not continue to reject valid reports at AIV, since doing so often allows vandals to continue to disrupt Wikiepdia. Laplorfill (talk) 15:42, 19 June 2021 (UTC)

Your definition of vandalism ("repeated removal of sourced information from an article is vandalism") is not necessarily true -- sourced information is not always relevant, and even sourced information can violate NPOV and BLP. This did not look like vandalism to me, it looked like a content dispute. Another administrator disagreed, which is fine with me. I don't think it warrants a discussion, to be frank. --Chris (talk) 15:48, 19 June 2021 (UTC)

Vif12vf

It seems you blocked User:Vif12vf recently. If he returns under different user names, that would be considered sockpuppetery so be aware. —184.145.29.92 (talk) 06:51, 20 June 2021 (UTC)

@184.145.29.92: Thanks for the heads up. If you have specific usernames and evidence, I'd suggest making an WP:SPI report to get more eyes on it. I'm not the best at investigating sockpuppetry, so I usually leave that to other administrators (though I can sometimes handle the simpler/easier cases). --Chris (talk) 12:38, 20 June 2021 (UTC)

Tomahawk1221

I'm disappointed that you didn't follow the usual practice and check with me before unblocking Tomahawk1221. The conduct that led to the block was egregious and, just two months later, I think his appeal is entirely inadequate. There's no understanding of what went wrong and it even repeats the battleground mentality (I can't win even when trying to be democratic) that got him into trouble in the first place. I'll be very surprised if we don't see the problem repeat within a few months. – Joe (talk) 20:32, 20 June 2021 (UTC)

@Joe Roe: I must have been confused because I thought there was a comment from you on their talk page but now I see it belonged to a different administrator. That's my bad. I am keeping a very close eye on them and will swiftly reinstate the block if any hint of this behavior resumes. --Chris (talk) 20:43, 20 June 2021 (UTC)

Brescia LTA

Thanks for the block. Beyond My Ken (talk) 06:49, 1 July 2021 (UTC)

@Beyond My Ken: You are very welcome. I will keep an eye on them after their block expires as well. --Chris (talk) 06:50, 1 July 2021 (UTC)

Thanks for that. Beyond My Ken (talk) 06:53, 1 July 2021 (UTC)

Response from JamariWiki

sorry about the edits, i will stop — Preceding unsigned comment added by JamariWiki (talk • contribs)

@JamariWiki: Please do. You are one vandalism incident away from being blocked. There is no reason to be blanking articles. --Chris (talk) 00:26, 4 July 2021 (UTC)

Hound and provocation

Hi. This edit was clear provocation. The editor had previously been told by another member of WP:MMA as to why the content was as it was, here. When they saw that I had not broken 3RR, they returned to a page in which they had previously shown no interest, intentionally made an edit that they had been asked not to make (not by me), in order to provoke me into making the change so that their malicious report had a better chance of being successful. They then continued to WP:HOUND me here 1 2 3 4 5.

There is no question that this edit, which directly ignored an instruction and had already been reverted by another editor here was designed to provoke me into breaking 3RR. This is WP:HOUND.

As you made the block, I'd like to run this past you first before taking further if necessary. NEDOCHAN (talk) 09:05, 13 July 2021 (UTC)

@NEDOCHAN:

• This edit was clear provocation -- You had already violated 3RR at that point ([12] [13] [14] [15]). It's not possible to provoke someone retroactively.
• malicious report -- I'm not sure what about it you think is malicious. It does not seem so to me, it looks like a fairly standard AN3 report.
• They then continued to WP:HOUND me here -- No, they did not. WP:HOUND says: Hounding on Wikipedia (or "wikihounding") is the singling out of one or more editors, joining discussions on multiple pages or topics they may edit or multiple debates where they contribute, to repeatedly confront or inhibit their work. (Emphasis mine.) They started editing the article apparently because of an edit request on the article's talk page, thought the edit request made sense, and applied it. They did not specifically target you and follow you around Wikipedia. The dispute involves one article. By definition, this cannot be hounding.

What I observed is a clear 3RR violation with no applicable exception, from an editor who has twice been blocked for 3RR / edit warring. You are welcome to solicit the opinion of another administrator by using the standard {{unblock}} procedure, or any other review procedure that you deem appropriate. --Chris (talk) 09:27, 13 July 2021 (UTC)

They followed me and HOUNDed me on my talk page, Conor McGregor talk page, ANI and now dispute resolution. I had not broken 3rr before their edit. They very specifically did target me and follow me around.NEDOCHAN (talk) 09:32, 13 July 2021 (UTC)

@NEDOCHAN: Hounding is not discussing the same dispute on multiple venues. You are using the term "hounding" without understanding what it means. They are involved in one dispute with you, and have discussed it on the article's talk page and on your own talk page. That is not hounding. Hounding is when they follow you around between multiple articles/disputes with the intent to frustrate you. That is not what is happening here, and mischaracterizing it as such is not helpful to your case -- in fact, it is actively harmful.

Yes, you did indeed breach 3RR before the particular edit you claim provoked you into doing so. I linked the diffs in my prior response. Even if that were not the case, "they made me do it" is not a defense for breaching 3RR. You made a choice to continue warring for your preferred version of the article. --Chris (talk) 09:42, 13 July 2021 (UTC)

Making an edit that another editor had reverted beforehand and explained why, and when that edit clearly said it was correct, was obviously done to frustrate me. The edit had been reverted by two editors and was made again without discussion. ANyway never mind.NEDOCHAN (talk) 09:46, 13 July 2021 (UTC)

As a point of order, this edit had nothing to do with the 3RR dispute. https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?diff=1033208136&oldid=1033206284&title=Conor_McGregor NEDOCHAN (talk) 09:47, 13 July 2021 (UTC)

@NEDOCHAN: It is possible to frustrate someone without hounding them. I strongly advise you to actually read WP:HOUND so that you can use the term correctly in the future. You keep using it to describe a situation in which it does not apply, despite having been told that it does not apply.

Whether the reversion had anything to do with the dispute is irrelevant. WP:3RR states: An editor must not perform more than three reverts on a single page—whether involving the same or different material—within a 24-hour period. An edit or a series of consecutive edits that undoes other editors' actions—whether in whole or in part—counts as a revert. (Emphasis mine.) You were clearly already in violation of this policy before the diff you linked to here: This edit was clear provocation. You had already made your fourth revert within a 24 hour window. --Chris (talk) 09:52, 13 July 2021 (UTC)

Undoing gibberish before a dispute? Jeepers creepers. {{tq|1=This edit was provocative, and you know it.NEDOCHAN (talk) 09:55, 13 July 2021 (UTC)

@NEDOCHAN: Even if we discount that first revert, you were up to 5 reverts when I placed the block. As I've already said, perceived provocation is not an excuse to edit war.

I don't believe continued discussion here will be fruitful. If anything, it has convinced me that my decision was correct. All I see you doing here is attempt to deflect criticism of your own behavior by making false accusations against other editors.

Again, you are welcome to appeal your block using any venue you deem appropriate. --Chris (talk) 10:03, 13 July 2021 (UTC)

JesseRafe's Inappropriate behaviour

Am wondering. When a user typically opens a sock puppet investigation proven false on another user, is that warning appropriate? You yourself, along with a couple other admins, p-blocked for a bit blueboy, a man Jesse claimed was right in his accusation against me. Was that appropriate of Jesse to claim blueboy was right? Jesse accused me of making edits at Vanguard that meant I was about to be blocked on numerous occasions despite the fact that I was discussing the topic in the talk page. Was that appropriate? I firmly believe disciplinary actions need to be taken against this bold, disparaging user who continually launches unwarranted personal attacks against me. If you could re-open the ANI, that would be appropriate. Sucker for All (talk) 17:48, 19 July 2021 (UTC)

@Sucker for All:

• When a user typically opens a sock puppet investigation proven false on another user, is that warning appropriate? -- It is required to tell another editor when they have an open SPI case involving them, so that the editor is able to respond to the evidence provided. JesseRafe was following policy.
• p-blocked for a bit blueboy -- This is unrelated. The block was regarding behavior of failing to engage in discussion and was explicitly not a judgement about who was correct in the dispute.
• Jesse accused me of making edits at Vanguard that meant I was about to be blocked on numerous occasions despite the fact that I was discussing the topic in the talk page. Was that appropriate? -- Yes. You were engaged in an edit war regardless of whether you were discussing on the talk page. The warnings were entirely appropriate.
• continually launches unwarranted personal attacks against me -- Show me where they have made any sort of personal attack against you. This means an attack against your character, not your actions.

Your accusations against JesseRafe are entirely without merit and you should immediately stop admin/forum shopping and drop your complaint. Valereee and I have been exceedingly patient with you and that patience is nearly exhausted. Don't push it. --Chris | Crazycomputers (talk) 18:27, 19 July 2021 (UTC)

@Sucker for All, four different editors commented at that ANI that you were out of line. In nearly 24 hours, you didn't respond to those comments, even after I left you some advice on your talk, where you responded that you wanted to keep the ANI open, and even though you were continuing to edit. IMO you're lucky Chris closed the ANI with no action, as it seems pretty clear your own behavior was coming under scrutiny. I think you should reconsider requesting this re-open. —valereee (talk) 18:39, 19 July 2021 (UTC)

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Hello, I'm Ts12rAc. I wanted to let you know that I reverted one of your recent contributions—specifically this edit to YouTube (channel)—because it did not appear constructive. If you would like to experiment, please use the sandbox. If you have any questions, you can ask for assistance at the Help desk. Thanks. Ts12rAc^{talk to me} 18:01, 23 July 2021 (UTC)

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Sorry, Crazycomputers, accidently revert your edit.--Ts12rAc^{talk to me} 18:07, 23 July 2021 (UTC)

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can you ban vandals instead

see pages delhi fc and here

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:History/2020%E2%80%9321_I-League_2nd_Division — Preceding unsigned comment added by 93.137.6.143 (talk)

You can always report vandalism to WP:AIV. --Chris | Crazycomputers (talk) 08:29, 25 July 2021 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

	The Admin's Barnstar
	Thank you for your actions in the 3RR report I messed up. I appreciate you communicating clearly with me and helping by declining the erroneous report I filed. Being an admin is not easy, thank you for being just but fair. Aussie Article Writer (talk) 21:28, 26 July 2021 (UTC)

@Aussie Article Writer: Thank you! It means a lot to me that you would go out of your way to come here and say that. Keep editing! --Chris | Crazycomputers (talk) 21:31, 26 July 2021 (UTC)

David-dalus

This user will likely continue to do the same things over and over again. Will the block be longer next time? LittleJerry (talk) 20:34, 25 July 2021 (UTC)

@LittleJerry: Yes. A first block for edit warring is typically 24 hours. Subsequent blocks for the same behavior will typically increase in duration. See WP:BLOCKDURATION. --Chris | Crazycomputers (talk) 21:20, 25 July 2021 (UTC)

The article's protection expires tomorrow and the user will probably vandalize it more under a IP to avoid violating the 3RR rule. Anything I can do? LittleJerry (talk) 21:33, 27 July 2021 (UTC)

@LittleJerry: Two things I would point out before complaining about this editor:

• The definition of vandalism is very narrow, and I'm not sure it applies in this case. It looks more like a content dispute.
• Please refraining from making personal attacks against other editors, even those you suspect to be vandals.

--Chris | Crazycomputers (talk) 13:18, 28 July 2021 (UTC)

Emmy Abrahamson

Hi, you deleted an addition I made on Emmy Abrahamson for not providing a reliable source. I have included a link in which the actress tells the story herself. I assume that that is reliable enough of a source :-) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bEYuNKVW0Ns — Preceding unsigned comment added by Helmar2 (talk • contribs)

@Helmar2: It's probably okay to use a primary source in this case, but if so it should be prefaced with something like "According to Abrahamson ..." so that it's clear these are her claims and not information that was independently corroborated by a secondary or tertiary source. --Chris | Crazycomputers (talk) 14:40, 1 August 2021 (UTC)

My AIV report

I apologize for the apparently errant AIV report on User:Nick Wilfred. My concern wasn't so much the edit summaries; it was the fact that Nick was making very bad image decisions (like placing illustrations of cats on an article about a calendar year) in the same pattern as a blocked user. I looked at several of the user's edits, and each one was the same as an edit that had been attempted on the same entry a few days ago by User:IFIKHARY RASHID, who is apparently checkuser blocked.

Reading some of the contest talk page discussions, it sounds like the prizes may be causing some new users to make bad decisions and that the organizers are trying to think through their approach to future editions of the contest. Usually I have a pretty low threshold for using SPI instead of AIV, and I apologize for creating a mess of a situation in that case. Larry Hockett (Talk) 08:00, 2 August 2021 (UTC)

@Larry Hockett: No worries, I should have been more thorough in my investigation as well. It happens. --Chris | Crazycomputers (talk) 18:19, 2 August 2021 (UTC)

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TPA

Hi Crazycomputers. You blocked the user Misosoltd but they continued spamming on their user talk page ([16]). Could you please revoke talk page access? Thanks. --Drm310 🍁 (talk) 12:51, 20 January 2022 (UTC)

@Drm310: Thanks for letting me know. I've done as you requested. --Chris | Crazycomputers (talk) 17:56, 20 January 2022 (UTC)

Special:Redirect/logid/127423686

See Special:Contributions/Hussainsindhi. Thanks, ~~~~
User:1234qwer1234qwer4 (talk) 09:45, 9 February 2022 (UTC)

@1234qwer1234qwer4: I don't understand what you're asking me to do. --Chris | Crazycomputers (talk) 19:52, 9 February 2022 (UTC)

Seems to meet the same block criterion. ~~~~
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@1234qwer1234qwer4: Ah, I didn't realize they were two different users. Thank you for bringing this to my attention, I will take a look. --Chris | Crazycomputers (talk) 20:04, 9 February 2022 (UTC)

your editions are bad

what you make in spirit of ecstasy is without knowledge... you put the work of rolls royce as nothing as being more than them... if an official press of company is issued you have to accept... living in world as computer hacker linux guy is nothing to me... maybe u go hacking people all over the world with your crazy ideas paranoic but RR did the new piece,,, that is sure it is mounted in ev cars,,, it is why wiki can not be trust because constructive information is erased and ignored by guys like you in underground — Preceding unsigned comment added by 178.4.50.18 (talk) 18:29, 10 February 2022 (UTC)

@178.4.50.18: You copied text verbatim from a source, which is against our copyright policy. What you did is not legally permissible in most jurisdictions. That's the only reason I even got involved. Your edits since then have introduced bizarre tirades not appropriate for an encyclopedia. Take a moment and chill out. Nobody is out to get you, but if you continue to make edits in violation of policy, you will be blocked. --Chris | Crazycomputers (talk) 18:44, 10 February 2022 (UTC)

@Crazycomputers, He's a Sock puppet, I've traced at least 35 IP's, always with disruptive editing, personal attacks, edit warring.

Most edits are directed to Brazilian pages but he has "contributed" with cruise ships, motor vehicle, general industry, infrastructure and politics/law enforcement articles. I've been 'improving' so,me of he's bs, such as this one (Name -> Etymology)

Most edits come with no reference or some bad ones; Which may also include policy violation like: Verifiability, Ownership of content, Original research

He's been banned in at least 2 IP's (72h* + 31h) in the past two weeks; He claimed to be in this community for 20 years (2001), but I doubt it.

*As seen in here: Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/3RRArchive446 M. (talk) 19:42, 10 February 2022 (UTC)

Thanks

Thank you for dealing with the rude IP-editor. I kinda feel like you're fighting my battle, but this is something I just can't deal with right now. It is greatly appreciated. Mark in wiki (talk) 20:47, 10 February 2022 (UTC)

@Mark in wiki: You're absolutely welcome. I'm not a prolific article editor by any means, but I became an admin so I can help out by dealing with this kind of nonsense so the good editors don't have to. --Chris | Crazycomputers (talk) 22:02, 10 February 2022 (UTC)

who was rude first ? you for sure, then rolling back .... means I am right, did the edit first all right, you guys same kind in same sack went to destroy... and what Matheus or M did is totally copy edit, you complain, but you all guys do after worse than me, with less knowledge, poor wiki, is an encyclopedia can not be trusted.... because you guys are unconstructive, disruptive and destroy.... now spirit of ecstasy is all copied equal in RR documents... so here the proof and see none prblem having 1000 ips worlwide, if wiki system allows it is not my problem, it is from you bad programmers — Preceding unsigned comment added by 178.157.94.243 (talk)

It is not rude to point out that your edits contradict Wikipedia policy. If you continue to harass me here for enforcing policy then you will very likely find yourself blocked in short order. --Chris | Crazycomputers (talk) 22:04, 10 February 2022 (UTC)

what is wikipedia policy, when this policy of wiki as base is as bad as wiki system, and that since a while far long... you can block no problem in that. as said tomorrow is just another Ip... For me the knowledge right is more important your god actions as pretend being... regards and have a nice day. Wiki is all wrong since principle. Just say, wiki Threats is like children 5 years old in garden complaining with mom and teacher and pointed out the finger, not mature. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 178.157.94.243 (talk)

Your reverts

I see you reverted my RD1 requests. According to this page, the work is still copyrighted. It was published in 1945, not the 19th century. Scorpions13256 (talk) 01:43, 13 February 2022 (UTC)

@Scorpions13256: Works published in 1945 could be under the public domain depending on whether the copyright was renewed, so my removal of the templates might have been premature at that time. However, following the link you give here to the work's metadata page, it claims the work is not copyrighted (Copyright Status: NOT_IN_COPYRIGHT), so I think we are good. Thanks for the report regardless. It's always better to check and be sure. --Chris | Crazycomputers (talk) 01:52, 13 February 2022 (UTC)

I was actually pointing to volume 70. I'll have to ping Diannaa on this one just to be safe. The biodiversity link says it is copyrighted if you click "Show Info" on the right side of your screen. You are right that it could be PD if not renewed. Scorpions13256 (talk) 01:57, 13 February 2022 (UTC)

@Scorpions13256: Ah, I didn't realize it preselected the first volume. Volume 70 says it's licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 3.0, which isn't compatible with Wikipedia's license, so it looks like you are indeed correct. If you have already pinged Diannaa, I will let them handle it (and I'll add this info to their talk page as well). --Chris | Crazycomputers (talk) 02:18, 13 February 2022 (UTC)

I hate it when that website does that. Thank you for your time. Have a good night. Scorpions13256 (talk) 02:20, 13 February 2022 (UTC)

@Scorpions13256: No worries. The law in this area is also not terribly straightforward, which makes it even more confusing. It now hinges on whether the copyright was renewed; I will defer to Diannaa's judgement. --Chris | Crazycomputers (talk) 02:22, 13 February 2022 (UTC)

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Should you see another account with similar pattern, please report directly to AIV instead of removing the link. See meta:NTSAMR at Wikipedia:Spam#Spambots. Cahk (talk) 09:07, 24 November 2023 (UTC)

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The Haunting 1963 film

Hi Chris;

You'e notified me that my contribution to this page is not allowed. 

I don't understand what is improper.

Please; remove what's improper, but ADD the parts of why the Sound Effects are such a major part of the film.

It is an unfortunate omission. Have YOU seen the film?

Regards,

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@CGFergo: What's improper is that your edit did not cite a reliable source. Whether I have seen the film is irrelevant. Whether you have seen it is also irrelevant -- Wikipedia does not permit original research to be cited in articles. If you can find a reliable source that backs up your claim, it can likely be included in the article (though not exactly in the tone or manner that you've written). --Chris | Crazycomputers (talk) 03:21, 26 November 2023 (UTC)

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Greetings, @Crazycomputers I am Nexovia and I have worked strongly in reverting vandalizing edits in Wiki and I think that I am familiar with all Wiki Policy and and I have been strongly participated in reverting vandalizing edits so I am requesting for Rollback rights that will help me more in my contribution to Wikipedia. Nexovia (talk) 15:26, 26 November 2023 (UTC)

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The Albuquerque Plaza in Albuquerque, New Mexico and The Epic Center in Wichita, Kansas

I did a height comparison of the Albuquerque Plaza in Albuquerque, New Mexico and the Epic Center in Wichita, Kansas on Google Earth and the Epic Center is taller than the Albuquerque Plaza. The Albuquerque Plaza is 351 feet to the tip of its iconic roof and the Epic Center is 385 feet to the tip of its iconic roof. 2600:8803:7:9300:795C:7DDE:964F:9CE8 (talk) 01:36, 2 December 2023 (UTC)

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