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Response to your question
In response to your question on my talkpage, there is a difference between blocking a named user and blocking an anonymous IP account. When an account is registered and every edit is serious vandalism (well beyond the testing stage), at some point an administrator can conclude that the user is not going to make valid contributions and block indefinitely. In the case of an IP, however, we cannot always assume that every edit coming from that address is by the same individual, as some IP's fluctuate or are shared by more than one person. Moreover, even if an IP is "static" (only one user) today, it might be reassigned sometime in the future, and we have to take that history into account in setting block lengths. In the instances you identified, the first user was a registered editor whose only edits were vandalism and harassment, while the second one was an IP. Newyorkbrad 18:19, 30 March 2007 (UTC)
- If you're curious, you can find lots of additional information at WP:BLOCK. Newyorkbrad 18:46, 30 March 2007 (UTC)
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Community Bulletin board
if you look at the very next section entitled 'New project pages seeking contributors', you can add it there. hope this helps. JoeSmack Talk 23:04, 30 March 2007 (UTC)
Chambersburg
Sure! Do you just need some general cleanup and referencing, or were you looking for something more specific? Seraphimblade Talk to me 04:55, 31 March 2007 (UTC)
My Editor Review
I've replied to your question on my editor review. --TeckWiz ParlateContribs@(Lets go Yankees!) 03:24, 4 April 2007 (UTC)
Protection of Mandy Moore
I'm sorry but I can't. As it's on the front page, WP:NOPRO applies as it's not normal to block the mainpage article. - Alison☺ 03:58, 4 April 2007 (UTC)
Dark Ages/NPOV
The Dark Ages article is already in extreme violation of the NPOV policy, and has been ever since it was written. There's a years-long thread on the Talk page about it, but any edits in a positive direction get reverted. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 216.23.105.26 (talk) 05:41, 4 April 2007 (UTC).
Chambersburg 2
Thanks for your help on Chambersburg, PA. Please let me know if there is anything else I can do there. I'd think that there might be a lot more info on the burning of Chambersburg - but I'm not in a position to find it now. The comment about history after 1870 is good. Smallbones 09:59, 4 April 2007 (UTC)
Temporarily removed RFCN entry
Howdy! I temporarily removed the User:Pothead1234 entry from RFCN, it appears to reference a non-existant item. Once it's ready, re-add it. - CHAIRBOY (☎) 14:53, 4 April 2007 (UTC)
- That's the problem. I was trying to add the user, however I am having problems adding him/her because I don't understand the new format for adding names into the RFCN. The user is user_talk:Pothead12345. Could you please go ahead and add him? Thank you! Wǐkǐɧérṃǐť(Talk) (Contributions) 14:56, 4 April 2007 (UTC)
- I think you need to create the page first, _then_ add the reference to the section as a transclusion. Regards, CHAIRBOY (☎) 15:56, 4 April 2007 (UTC)
Pothead12345
The username request for comments has begun: Wikipedia:Requests for comment/User names/Pothead12345. But you need to specify which part of the policy you think it is in violation of. HighInBC(Need help? Ask me) 15:01, 4 April 2007 (UTC)
- Yes I know. I was having problems with the new format for adding user names to the RFCN. Wǐkǐɧérṃǐť(Talk) (Contributions) 15:02, 4 April 2007 (UTC)
Blackhorse
re: [1]
How on earth is an article about a large finance company in the UK inappropriate? I created an article that is linked off Lloyds TSB but doesn't exist, giving it what I believe to be the basic information about the company. I would link the article I created, but you have deleted it off the face of the earth.
What exactly is your problem that you give me warning on my talk page? Timb0h 15:18, 4 April 2007 (UTC)
- Yeah, like I'm going to bother typing all of that out again so that another deletionist trawler can come along again. The real question is, why didn't you make some simple changes to it if you thought it read like an advert? It certainly was not written that way, it was written in a matter of fact way. They are a very large finance company in the UK, and provide Vehicle Finance. How is any of that an advert? I didn't even link their website. Timb0h 15:28, 4 April 2007 (UTC)
- I've never heard of 90% of the subjects of articles on wikipedia. Before nominating something for deletion however I would do a least a basic amount of research. And it was in a general wiki-format. It might not have been perfect, but most articles aren't, and that is no reason for deletion. Timb0h
- Since when has helping people been a requirement for an article on wikipedia? What did Ford ever do to help people? It just sells cars. blackhorse provide finance so that people can buy cars. Of course their primary purpose is to make money, as with most companies. They are a very large brand, and as such should have an article on wikipedia. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Timb0h (talk • contribs) 17:43, 4 April 2007 (UTC).
Elephants
Sorry, slip of the keyboard - it was meant to be in userspace but I forgot the prefix. Gone now. Cheers, Yomanganitalk 15:25, 4 April 2007 (UTC)
Re: Barnstar
Sweet! Appreciate it heaps. =) Spellcast 15:51, 4 April 2007 (UTC)
Re: Judeo-Pagan Mysticism
I would like to know how I am violating anything by just posting the writings for the religion I created. - River WindWhisperer
- WP:NOR. Hope that clears it up. Wǐkǐɧérṃǐť(Talk) (Contributions) 16:31, 4 April 2007 (UTC)
Very, very innappropriate SD notice on this article. You tagged it as an empty portal- in fact, it was a badly formatted disambiguation page. Please try to be more careful in future- I have cleaned up the article to a much higher standard and removed your tag. J Milburn 16:46, 4 April 2007 (UTC)
Paul Boag
You have left the following:
Please do not violate Wikipedia policy by introducing inappropriate pages, such as Paul Boag to Wikipedia. If you would like to experiment, please use the sandbox. Thank you. Wǐkǐɧérṃǐť(Talk) (Contributions) 05:55, 4 April 2007 (UTC)
I believe it was an automated response but the page has now been deleted. I don't understand, it is a perfectly valid contribution and if other similar public figure heads for web design and standards in the UK like Andy Budd have a page, Paul Boag should. Chris Grainger 4 April 2007
Your sig
Wikihermit, currently your sig reads as follows:
- [[User:Wikihermit|<font color="black"><b>Wǐkǐɧérṃǐť</b></font>]][[User talk:Wikihermit|<font color="green"><small>(Talk)</small></font>]] [[Special:Contributions/Wikihermit|<font color="green"><small>(Contributions)</small></font>]]
It only takes a few comments from you to fill up the editing window with markup, making editing significantly more difficult. Would you consider simplifying it to reduce the clutter?Proabivouac 18:13, 4 April 2007 (UTC)
- Thanks a lot. Many editors get very touchy about their sigs. User:Netscott uses a transclusion from a user-restricted page. Someone told him it violated policy somehow, upon which I have no opinion, but it gets the look he wants while creating zero clutter - less, actually, then a default sig.Proabivouac 18:18, 4 April 2007 (UTC)
i was putting correct informaton about washington high cuz i live in the sbi and my kid goers there
Signature
Wikhermit,
Just a thought. You can have your signature as long as you like and still only use a small amount of coding to protray it if you create a template within your user subpages.
To do it you need to create a subpage spurring from your user page, and then use a referene to it followed by five tildes, e.g. {{User:Urbane_User/Signature}} ~~~~~
If you are unsure what i mean, take a look at the bottom line of this message in edit view:
User:Urbane User/Signature 12:10, 5 April 2007 (UTC)
Blues Never Fade Away discussion
Wikihermit, Blues Never Fade Away is not inappropriate. That happens to be a good song by one of the best artists known as Elton John. Please leave me alone. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Jon Doh (talk • contribs) 17:13, 5 April 2007 (UTC).
CSD A7
CSD A7 is supposed to be used only for articles that make no claim at all to notability. If there is any chance they might be contested, one of the other processes should be used. School district articles are now usually kept--partly so the individual articles for Non notable schools can be merged into them. All of them are therefore likely to be contested. If you want to delete some, i suggest you do one or a small batch directly to Afd so it can be discussed. Perhaps the community will decide to start deleting them. I myself have no strong personal opinion about them. DGG 17:44, 5 April 2007 (UTC)
Untitled
You claimed that the edit I made on Casey Serin's wiki page was vandalism. I was reverting an edit made by Saranary that removed a seemingly important, verified, sourced FACT from a reputable source.
This is what I included: It is a direct quote from the scotsman guide. "and that the cash was paid to a bogus company, controlled by a third party. It was then funneled back to Serin. In all other escrows, cash was paid to the seller, then back to Serin after closing"--
Sorry I forgot to sign and am too lazy to login--149.101.1.120 19:47, 5 April 2007 (UTC) And thank you
- Hey, umm, I signed in because of the vandalism warning. The DOJ shares 1 outgoing IP. I noticed this when I was the vandalism warning, because I've never actually edited any martial arts entries. If you banned that IP, you'd ban the whole USDOJ DC-office from umm, editing wiki--Jerichohill817 20:05, 5 April 2007 (UTC)
Soros Neutrality?
Dear WH,
I'm puzzled by the POV tag on Soros. I didn't see anything new on the discussion page, but there has been a lot back and forth about pretty much unsubstantiated claims that he collaborated with the Nazis. The back and forth is over a period of about a year and so a POV tag without explanation pretty much just confuses things. Could you add an explanation?
BTW, I'm of the opinion that unsubstantiated claims like that should be kept out under WP:BLP but since there is a paragraph or 2 in various Soros (auto)bios and there was a question on 60 minutes about it that it could be addressed in a sentence or maybe 2. The problem is that some fairly disreputable sources or extreme political groups, interpret a lot into a few words said by Soros, so coming up with an NPOV sentence is extremely difficult. With something like this the rule ought to be "when in doubt leave it out."
BTW2, I'll only be able to get back to Chambersburg, PA later this summer when I have more printed resources. Could you do a brief one over on Media, PA and make any suggestions? Unfortunately "later this summer" describes that one too.
Any help appreciated.
TonyTheTiger
I've closed your RFCN. Next time, make a good faith effort to resolve the problem through discussion first, especially in the case of an established user. Mangojuicetalk 20:32, 11 April 2007 (UTC)