User talk:Curps/archive17

User:Fvw/POPBot/scan

Hi,

Is this a real page created by you (or your bot), or was it originally created by the recent pagemove vandal? I restored it just in case. -- Curps 04:57, 1 October 2005 (UTC)

Nope, that's mine, thanks for rescuing it. See User:Fvw/POPBot, the short version is it's an open proxy scanner. --fvw* 16:39, 1 October 2005 (UTC)

alien2 I should give another star* for blocking so many Users at the IPs, I do need confessions, I have a direct line to Up there <Allah~> BTW waht time when you block? our time here was Saturday U know me? Those terrorist started bombing on my sign<Alien2!!!>, Meeee a newbie, got to be <joking> I'll have a whole bunch|team here <on the little Island> of FBI investigators jumping from the sky if that's little mEEEEEE so far it's silent except the that stir U cause on the last attack on our IPs roaming address! By the recent pagemove vandal a newbie hehehhehehe!21:10, 2 October 2005 (UTC)locate Ultimate Island to find my physical self or got [[1]] welcome to contribute if U are that smart<prodigy!> I'll drop U a secret line email me norey_23@hotmail.com tattat@Alien2 21:10, 2 October 2005 (UTC) the next time will ??? U got it <wow>

Regarding Richard Reid

The (terrorist) part is considered to be POV by many people. There may be a dry, clinical definition but the word itself is still considered POV. That's why I moved it! WhisperToMe 04:25, 2 October 2005 (UTC)

External-style interwiki link in refs

Policy (Wikipedia:Cite_sources/example_style#Other-language_wikipedias) requires an external-style link in references to another language Wikipedia. I noticed that you changed the one in article Shmuel Yosef Agnon. If we're only talking about one case, it's no big deal. But if you're considering many similar changes, please argue it out on the policy page first. --Hoziron 13:20, 2 October 2005 (UTC)

Nu Draconis

Thank you for letting me know; I don't have even amateurish knowledge in astronomy. I made this entry for the sole purpose of disambigging Kuma. mikka (t) 16:52, 2 October 2005 (UTC)

WP:RFAR/SV

In spite of any disagreements Im glad we see eye to eye on that issue, and I very much regard your good fairness in bringing it to attention. Without it, the case would appear to rest entirely on my appearing to be an asshole —which I'll freely admit, even if it doesnt... well... help my case. ;) Sinreg -St|eve 16:58, 3 October 2005 (UTC)

OK, no problem. I appreciate your words. -- Curps 17:07, 3 October 2005 (UTC)

There are genuine sentiments behind those words too. Dont forget those. -St|eve 17:17, 3 October 2005 (UTC)

It goes without saying. Despite our differences, I think what you say is what you believe. -- Curps 17:59, 3 October 2005 (UTC)

I stand by my words, provided I'm confident that my words have been chosen with care to begin with. Otherwise I will simply apologise. Its hard to explain spirit and action in terms of words, but indeed words alone are easy. -St|eve 19:43, 3 October 2005 (UTC)

Sorry , didn't know it was inappropriate.

Thanks for the tip. I moved the "article" back to the "user" page. Since I am the cofounder of the Community Miracles Center and the coeditor of Miracles Monthly it IS probably appropriate for me to have an article but I'll have to let someone else write it. Maybe Scott Perry will, he's written many of the other A Course In Miracles related articles here. I'm new here and didn't know the "culture." Rev. Tony 02:44, 4 October 2005 (UTC)

OK, fair enough, no problem. -- Curps 03:52, 4 October 2005 (UTC)

"Insert" section

Thanks for the info. I am using a simple skin, so I am not aware of various conveniences. Will take a look. mikka (t) 20:28, 4 October 2005 (UTC)

Julian year

Thanks for the heads up. --Philip Baird Shearer

Ubeda

At User:Philip Baird Shearer's suggestion, this discussion has been moved into Talk:Úbeda (see Talk:Ubeda#Talk_page_discussion_on_page_move or possibly Talk:Úbeda#Talk_page_discussion_on_page_move if the page has been renamed). -- Curps 05:10, 7 October 2005 (UTC)

You are probably sick of it by now but if you have time please have a look at the edit history of Ubeda. Philip Baird Shearer 09:23, 11 October 2005 (UTC)

The poll

Regarding Talk:Yom Kippur War -- well, at least you tried. →Raul654 05:17, 6 October 2005 (UTC)

Ral315- Ubeda

I guess I don't quite get what the order of events was- I know that both users did some malicious things to try and prevent moves, but where should the page logically stay? And I assume at this point that adding a CSD tag to any one of those pages should now be interpreted as vandalism? Ral315 W_S 16:15, 6 October 2005 (UTC)

The order of events was that there was a RM in March, but a later survey ran from April through August that was supposed to settle the issue globally. As I've stated above, diacritics, just like capitalization, should be governed by a global policy, not case-by-case. Philip for some reason seems to have a visceral dislike of diacritics (see his "East European squiggles" comment above) and seems to be intent on subverting any global policy by conducting a rear-guard action at this one article. Meanwhile, I've blocked Kolokol for 24 hours for 3RR and disruption. -- Curps 16:22, 6 October 2005 (UTC)

Thank you

For your help with Mario Rodríguez Cobos and my confusion over accented characters. Tedernst 19:46, 6 October 2005 (UTC)

your post on WP:AN/I

Thanks to you Redwolf24 has taken an very long wikibreak, thanks a lot :(. Jtkiefer ^{T | @ | C} ----- 01:50, 7 October 2005 (UTC)

User:Jaime Wales

Remember to always sign all of your posts on talk pages. Typing four tildes after your comment ( ~~~~ ) will insert a signature showing your username and a date/time stamp, which is very helpful. Jtkiefer ^{T | @ | C} ----- 03:37, 7 October 2005 (UTC)

Thanks for helping out on this, this is very confusing, the user created a couple of pages (all now deleted) and apparently vandalized a userpage and even though my username block was probably jumping the gun since there is unexplained userpage vandalism you have a point that I shouldn't immediately unblock, very very odd. Jtkiefer ^{T | @ | C} ----- 03:37, 7 October 2005 (UTC)

ubeda - global

thanks for your message. Even if I don't like the use of diacritics .... - of course : use global solution! This is much much more valuable. thanks again for coming around. best regards Tobias Conradi (Talk) 12:56, 7 October 2005 (UTC)

Kalakat Illam

Thanks for reminder about verifiability. I was wavering between userfy and weak support and I think I should vote for userfy now, after waiting to see if anyone better informed votes. Normally I would have abstained from voting for something I am so ignorant about, but here the others are in a worse position than me. Tintin 17:52, 7 October 2005 (UTC)

Whobot error

cross posted from User talk:Who

See [2]. It placed a category redirect notice on the wrong page (the already-redirected page). -- Curps 17:33, 7 October 2005 (UTC)

Actually, that wasn't an error, it just moved the contents from the old category to the new one. The category was flagged for manual cleanup, so I would have caught it in the cleanup directory. Thanks for pointing it out and fixing it though. ∞Who?¿? 18:11, 7 October 2005 (UTC)

Actually, it was an error, because the "new" category page already existed. I manually created it some days ago, edited all the pages in the old category to put them in the new category, and manually put the categoryredirect on the old page. The bot shouldn't have done anything. -- Curps 18:35, 7 October 2005 (UTC)

OwenX's RfA

Thank you for your support on my RfA. Your trust in me is well appreciated. Owen× ☎ 22:25, 7 October 2005 (UTC)

Nazist/Nazi

Sorry about that, I thought 'Nazi' was just a widespread colloquial term used in English, because most other followers of ideologies have that suffix, such as with communism and communist, socialism/socialist and capitalism/capitalist. --Andrelvis 00:19, 8 October 2005 (UTC)

Yes it is a bit unusual. I know that Russian uses Natsist, but for whatever reason it isn't used in English. -- Curps 00:22, 8 October 2005 (UTC)

Dvirgueza

Hello. Thank you for taking care of the pages that user reverted, and so fast. Looks like he was doing that from my contributions list.--Kaonashi 05:58, 8 October 2005 (UTC)

No problem. Any idea why he was targeting you? -- Curps 06:08, 8 October 2005 (UTC)

Oh, so you blocked him again. I didn't know indefinite blocks could actually be done that away. I thought they were only supposed to be used in cases of proxies and the like. I'm not disagreeing, though. That user has been giving us trouble for quite a long time now, and he decided to come back some days ago. That said, good job. Keep your eyes peeled, though. He might come back under different IPs. It happened before.--Kaonashi 06:10, 8 October 2005 (UTC)

Yes, I do. As you saw, he had a large collection of images on his user page. Stuff he uploaded himself. Looks like fair-use images can't be used that way on user pages, so they were removed. He added them again, so I reverted. That's what made him upset.

By the way, someone else said those images are copyvio, after that. Either ways, they didn't belong there.--Kaonashi 06:13, 8 October 2005 (UTC)

Indefinite blocks are appropriate for persistent vandals. I'll try to keep an eye on things. -- Curps 06:16, 8 October 2005 (UTC)

Sure thing. As long as anyone doesn't get upset for... whatever reasons. It's just that I've learned to be a little more careful when doing things on Wikipedia due to some problems I had in the past. But sure, I'll do it. And thanks once again.--Kaonashi 06:51, 8 October 2005 (UTC)

Well, initially you have to assume good faith, and you shouldn't block someone because of an editing disagreement, to gain advantage in an editing war. On the other hand, outright vandalism that persists over months is another story. -- Curps 06:54, 8 October 2005 (UTC)

Hi. Just noticed you were keeping tabs on this user, and I certainly hope you can bring this nightmare to a close. I don't know if you caught it or not, but I'd certainly call this blatant vandalism, which pushes him past 'innocent, unknowing n00b', IMHO. --InShaneee 21:09, 10 October 2005 (UTC)

The user was blocked permanently for malicious vandalism over an extended period of time. -- Curps 21:19, 10 October 2005 (UTC)

delete history

Can you do me a favor and delete my history? (Jessica Liao 15:12, 8 October 2005 (UTC))

My userpage history...not my discussion history. (Jessica Liao 15:14, 8 October 2005 (UTC))

Can you also delete my userpage's history? (Kyla 15:39, 8 October 2005 (UTC))

Kyla is redirected to Jessica Liao. It's just my old userpage Kyla still has all my old history. So if you can delete all of that, that would be great. (Kyla 15:44, 8 October 2005 (UTC))

Thank you so much for deleting my history! I promise I will not put my personal info. next time! (Kyla 16:29, 8 October 2005 (UTC))

Blocking at ca:

I wonder in the future if we should forward those messages to Angela or Anthere? --HappyCamper 19:17, 8 October 2005 (UTC)

I'm not sure, can we guarantee that they are online at any given time? -- Curps 19:20, 8 October 2005 (UTC)

Probably not, but I know they are stewards, and their accounts probably have the technical expertise to do something about it...Just a thought in passing. It's been a while since I've seen a post like that. I guess in situations like this, if we can help out, we'll do our best. --HappyCamper 19:25, 8 October 2005 (UTC)

Let Bygones be Bygones still but I'd like to know something

What happened following this conversation on the Admins Noticeboard of Incidents Go to Edit - Find and type in Greaterlondoner. Can you give me links to all the pages you made comments like that in. Thank you. Greaterlondoner 19:28, 8 October 2005 (UTC) PS Continue letting bygones be bygones though

If you're referring to [3][4], well, your initial sharp reaction reminded me of an earlier, now-blocked editor (User:Irate) and I wondered if you were that user. As you can see, at least two other administrators wondered about the same thing. -- Curps 01:27, 9 October 2005 (UTC)

Can you inform them in that case that the rumour is untrue if you have not done so already. You can show them my comment where I told you that. Thanks. Greaterlondoner 11:14, 9 October 2005 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents content gets refreshed on a regular basis, and posts from nearly two months ago are no longer there. In fact as of this writing there is no post earlier than October 4. -- Curps 11:35, 9 October 2005 (UTC)

Yeltensic42.618

Hi, this is Yeltensic (not logged in). It was not I who moved the page; it appears that a friend found where I had written my login password, then logged in with my username to exact revenge upon Evil Therapist. I have spoken to the said friend about it, and it won't happen again (well, if it does, my friend will have some explaining to do).

User:68.39.174.238

This IP is being used by a vandal fighter in the #en.wikipedia.vandalism channel. I've unblocked, as none of his edits have been vandalism. -- Essjay · Talk 00:20, 9 October 2005 (UTC)

You're right apparently, though he made some edits to Template:Vandal that broke the block log link, which weren't really explained. -- Curps 00:23, 9 October 2005 (UTC)

He mentioned in the channel that the vandal tag wasn't working correctly; apparently when you tried to follow the page move log link on some usernames it was broken (i.e. the page move log link for User:Wikipedia is Communisim pulled the page move log for User:Wikipedia) and he was trying to fix it. It must not have worked (since he asked Amgine to intervene) but I assure you his edits were in good faith (and we are stronly encouraging him to get a username to prevent similar problems in the future). -- Essjay · Talk 00:38, 9 October 2005 (UTC)

Template:Vandal

Hi Curps, this is Amgine (not logged in, but IP 24.85.85.76). I was asked to help repair this template, which is currently broken, and which edits you reverted. The template is now locked, so I guess I don't have to fix it anymore. But you might want to find out if you can unblock the other anon, user:AlabamaStateCons, who had asked me to fix it.

The workaround is to use underscore instead of space when specifying a username... it would be nice if it worked with spaces, but it doesn't. If you want to experiment with templates, you can always create a template page at, say [[User:You/Sandbox]] and then call it via {{User:You/Sandbox}}. You shouldn't experiment on the live version. -- Curps 00:38, 9 October 2005 (UTC)

You mean we shouldn't break the template by trying to fix it, 'though it's already broken in its current use on the wiki. See Wikipedia:Long term abuse/Wikipedia is Communism That's okay, not working on it anymore. - Amgine

Don't experiment on the live template, lots of page use it, and they break when the template breaks. Make a private copy and experiment on that instead, as suggested above. The current version at least works if you remember to use the underscore workaround, your versions didn't. -- Curps 01:06, 9 October 2005 (UTC)

Yeltsinsic block

I have no idea what he was talking about. I don't know if he can read English very well, but whatever he was on about, it's got nothing to do with me. If he did page move vandalism, he needs blocking for at least 24 hr. I find page move vandals to be quite a bit worse (and more blockable) than the ones who merely blank articles or insert rude language. They don't have to get to the WoW rate before I'd be in favor of very, very long blocks. Geogre 01:44, 9 October 2005 (UTC)

Right, the evil friend. Sheesh. I've heard that before. 18 hours is enough, if he keeps his nose clean, but only if he changes his password. I believe the last person who said that "a friend" got to his computer and did bad things ended up with an indefinite block (I believe it was User:OldRedneckJokes or something like that). Sigh. Well, I've seen the account name before, but I can't remember if it was from wp:an/i or elsewhere. Geogre 02:21, 9 October 2005 (UTC)

I have now changed my password to [password deleted]. I'll make sure not to leave it lying around where my "nonexistent evil friend" will see it. Yeltensic42.618 22:34, 9 October 2005 (UTC)

History of Contributions

Thanks for the hint with the bureaucrat, but it's not neccessary in my case. --Dirk

Yom Kippur War

I'm sorry you felt aggrieved that I voted against the move. I don't think a vote was at all productive. Allowing POV pushers to have their way simply because they can win a vote is not wiki. It's generally a means to silence dissent and end discussion. All that happens in a minor vote is that one side emails its friends and has them vote whichever way they want it to go, and then says "yah boo, we won the vote, you can't have your way".

The substantive issues, meanwhile, remain and never become resolved. In this case, it's important that it's noted that a faction of editors invoke NPOV when it suits, ignore it when it doesn't, invoke commonly used names when that suits, ignore it when it doesn't. That faction has a stranglehold on a set of pages in WP, so it is useful to create a discussion that actually aims at resolving some of those issues. By trying to wish it away, you facilitate their POV pushing, and work against any attempt to gain a consensus (which I understand in its wiki sense, not as a supermajority that ignores dissent). You haven't actually made the dispute go away. You've simply created a means for some to silence dissent from their POV. Grace Note 06:09, 10 October 2005 (UTC)

Translation - "It doesn't matter if we have one, two, or six polls against what I am proposing, I'm going to push my POV until hell freezes over." →Raul654 06:13, 10 October 2005 (UTC)

A vote of 14-0 is indeed a very strong indication of consensus against unilaterally renaming the page to that particular title, as you did four times. I'm not trying to wish away discussion, and as far as I can see it is still continuing vigorously on the talk page. The dispute hasn't gone away, but I certainly hope the move war has. -- Curps 08:14, 10 October 2005 (UTC)

Quogoquipan's World Renownd Talk Page Debates..

..Needs YOU! We're recruiting, for new members, and if succesful we hope to eventually gather the support nessesary to make our own wikiproject, almost like a wiki-debate club, it should be fun.. Hello, would you like to join me in one of my stimulating user:talk:page debates?--Quogoquipan 02:33, 11 October 2005 (UTC)

MRAA

You may want to check my user-page, to find out who won the "Most Reverted Admin Award", and what is your rank. Any objections are welcome. Most reverted admin award 09:53, 11 October 2005 (UTC)

Jack Sarfatti

Hi, thanks for that revert of edit by User:J.Sarfatti. In the past, he has already been banned for making legal threats and such under other user names. I think it might be good to ban this account also (since he made that threat in the edit summary); User:Flcelloguy has refused to do anything or get involved anymore than he has already been. I asked him for page protection, but it doesn't seem necessary at this point (I jumped the gun early because of Sarfatti's previous agressive reverting of the page). --C S 20:27, 11 October 2005 (UTC)

I left a message on the account's talk page about Wikipedia:No legal threats, but I think a block is premature (the legal threat is veiled at best, not explicit). -- Curps 20:40, 11 October 2005 (UTC)

Zürich, Mexico etc.

Hi, Curps!

The original poll may have been motivated by the Zürich/Zurich dispute but the poll at Talk:Zürich, which has run alongside it, is still split right down the middle at 31/31. And the idea of moving Mexico to México hasn't even been raised as far as I know - even though it would clearly come under the scope of the rule - for which there is majority support. It's all rather confusing.

Checking Google it seems that Mexico is more common in English texts on the web by about two orders of magnitude. That's of course a much greater difference than for Zürich/Zurich or Reykjavík/Reykjavik. There are probably more country names where we don't follow the rule in question - România is one I found just now.

I'm as confused as anyone. Should we start using România and México just to remain consistent and save what seems to be a useful rule in 99% of instances? Should we qualify it so that it doesn't apply to country names? Should we qualify it in some other way? I honestly don't know.

- Haukur Þorgeirsson 20:36, 11 October 2005 (UTC)

User:Genisock

Yes it's me. I was getting hit by the preview rather than save bug so much I was woundering if a second account would solve the problem.Geni 20:48, 11 October 2005 (UTC)

Sand

I imagine you also may have noticed, but our mutual "friend" is in the sandbox these days. This edit in particular [5] made me laugh out loud (that edit summary from one who may be in the top ten vandals in the history of our project, by sheer number of vandal edits). I'm watching in case he goes back to his old ways. Cheers, Antandrus (talk) 03:26, 12 October 2005 (UTC)

Yes, I've noticed. He isn't doing anything objectionable, so he might as well have fun. -- Curps 03:35, 12 October 2005 (UTC)

Nonsense username blocks

I blocked the users with nonsense usernames indefinitely, just in case. Turns out you had already blocked them. But duplicated indefinite blocks don't harm each other, do they? — JIP | Talk 12:20, 12 October 2005 (UTC)

I don't believe they cause any harm. -- Curps 12:22, 12 October 2005 (UTC)

Add {{nonsense}} to unblock plse!? I am here!

203.164.*

Could you check this edit history:

[6]

And apply the 3RR rule to the anonymous user if you find it appropriate? He has been warned several times and by my count he managed to clock up 8 reverts to one page in 24 hours. - Haukur Þorgeirsson 14:26, 12 October 2005 (UTC)

Mike Church is back

I see you've dealt with User:Mike Church before. He's back, as User:Flaming Cow, and still promoting himself and making personal attacks. Right now he's trying to stick his own rules into the Gin rummy article, and making edit comments that are either nonsense or attacks. Would you like to help? RSpeer 05:15, 13 October 2005 (UTC)

vandal bot

What do you think about these user names:

• User:Dd0
• User:8Ia
• User:0Ra
• User:4Dk is another.

I have seen a few of them simiarly random but short, along the same timeline as the vandalbot.. Any suggestions? ∞Who?¿? 08:52, 13 October 2005 (UTC)

Sorry to keep bothering you with this, but I think it is an obfuscation to be creating these. I blocked User:Pilly On Pills earlier, in the midst, so there's a chance that some of the normal looking ones are the real sleepers. ∞Who?¿? 09:26, 13 October 2005 (UTC)

It was either this or Rouge Admin

I, GraemeL, herby dub you Defender of the Wiki. "<Computer2> [[Special:Log/block]]: [[User:<Random bot name>]] is blocked by [[User:Curps]]" repeated several hundred times in the vandalism channel. (KC)

Thanks

I want to thank you for banning User:Aranda56 On Wheels before doing any harm to my user,talk page and all of Wikipedia. --JAranda watz sup 20:58, 13 October 2005 (UTC)

Yes! Greatest compliments. People are curious as to what decision process it uses. Care to enlighten us? Could you perhaps clarify MediaWiki:Newuserlogpagetext? ~~ N (t/c) 01:06, 14 October 2005 (UTC)

Blocks

For heroic bot valor!

Ah, well, feel free to reblock; I was just worried the bot was losing it! ;-)

By the way, for your quick work in running the blockbot, have a barnstar! -- Essjay · Talk 01:09, 14 October 2005 (UTC)

It might be nice if you gave a longer reason for the block though, so that if it did hit someone other than the vandalbot that person would have a better idea what is going on. Dragons flight 01:13, 14 October 2005 (UTC)

Well, the Mediawiki:blockedtext page tells them what they need to know. I could make the block reason longer but it wouldn't really be any more informative. -- Curps 01:20, 14 October 2005 (UTC)

And you don't think the line saying "The reason given is this: user..." is going to seem really mysterious to a newbie? How about "username suggests vandalbot attack account" or something similar with at least a little bit of information? It's not like you have to type it each time. Dragons flight 01:30, 14 October 2005 (UTC)

The word "vandalbot" would seem even more mysterious to a collaterally-damaged newbie, or perhaps even alarming and inflammatory. When they get blocked, the page Mediawiki:blockedtext comes up, hopefully that will provide sufficient information. But I'll think about it. -- Curps 01:50, 14 October 2005 (UTC)

For gunning down countless vandalbot accounts. the wub "?!" 12:42, 14 October 2005 (UTC)

Hello what message where you sending by leaving period on my talk page?--Anti-Communist 3 04:38, 14 October 2005 (UTC)

I would also like to ask you to use more descriptive block summaries rather than just "user..." --Ixfd64 06:03, 5 November 2005 (UTC)

Disambiguating "Conch"

Wow! I hate to add to your reading burden here, but here goes. You suggested that the nickname "Conch" might go on a disabbiguation page. I think the "Conch people" section should have it's own page, with a disambiguation page: i.e., Conch (gastropod) and Conch (people). I'm new to this, so I'm looking for advice on how to do this. Is it easier to rename "Conch" to "Conch (gastropod)" (I presume an administrator has to do this), or create the "Conch (gastropod)" article and copy the contents from "Conch"? I found the template for a disambiguation page, but I would appreciate a word on any gotchas to watch for. --Dalbury 18:22, 14 October 2005 (UTC)

Thank you for the suggestion. I'll do it that way. --Dalbury 19:38, 14 October 2005 (UTC)