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RE:User:Super Cyrus

What was with this guy, I had to go and delete have his contribs and block him. He seems to not like you very much. Just wondering what the deal is? – Gonzo fan2007 ^{talk ♦ contribs} 02:04, 24 February 2008 (UTC)

*Shrug* I've blocked a lot of the socks of this user in the past, so, that's why I get to suffer his abuse I guess. Metros (talk) 02:06, 24 February 2008 (UTC)

Figured as much, well I'm pretty sure I got all his contribs reverted or deleted. Cheers! – Gonzo fan2007 ^{talk ♦ contribs} 02:08, 24 February 2008 (UTC)

Huh, what?

I was congratulating a well-respected member of the community for the way they handled the situation. Corvus cornix_talk 03:43, 26 February 2008 (UTC)

Oh, well, in that case...go to his talk page and give a barnstar. Duh. Metros (talk) 03:45, 26 February 2008 (UTC)

Heh. Corvus cornix_talk 03:47, 26 February 2008 (UTC)

Help with Metroid (series) review

I am currently reviewing Metroid (series) for GA status. I pointed out the fact that one section was waaaaay to long, and the article is on hold so that can be fixed. I was wondering if you could point out any other things that need to be fixed. I got in trouble once for passing an article that didn't have a fair use rational for one of it's images, and I don't want it to happen again, so I thought I should ask somebody to check it first and make sure all GA criteria are fulfilled. Epass (talk) 20:39, 26 February 2008 (UTC)

Lyrics

Why did you completely edit JASON SMITH i don't understand why you took out all of that info??? it personally took me 45 minutes to write those lyrics, and then you delete them?? thats extremely rude and unnecassary. i would like you to undo that...

The lyrics are not necessary. In addition, those are his copyrighted lyrics, so we cannot put those in articles. Metros (talk) 06:41, 28 February 2008 (UTC)

Advice

I was wondering, since you are an admin, if you could look over my contributions and tell me what I've been doing good and what needs to be worked on. I'm going to do another RfA soon and I need all the advice I can recieve. If you would do this, I would be especially gratefull. Thanks in advance. Undeath (talk) 23:56, 28 February 2008 (UTC)

My post

I think it was inappropriate for you to delete my post. It was very rude.--Uga Man 04:15, 2 March 2008 (UTC)

Why do you feel it is your duty to determine if I am running or not. I know I am running, I am ineligiable but I am still running. Why can't you just let Jimbo decide for himself if he wants to be my running mate?--Uga Man 04:23, 2 March 2008 (UTC)

It's a total misuse of Wikipedia talk pages to go and ask a person to run with you like that. If you really want to ask that, contact that person through email or phone. That's how this kind of "official" decision should be done. Metros (talk) 04:25, 2 March 2008 (UTC)

Why are you trying to delete my user pages?--Uga Man 04:26, 2 March 2008 (UTC)

You really need to cool down. I understand you probably are having a bad day but there are no good reasons for you to go around deleting my userpages. I am sorry about whatever happenned to you but please don't take it out on me.--Uga Man 04:32, 2 March 2008 (UTC)

Looks like others are having bad days too. Metros (talk) 04:35, 2 March 2008 (UTC)

The last diff was from a troll and YOU are the one who nominated the stuff for deletion.--Uga Man 04:37, 2 March 2008 (UTC)

Yes, I did nominate those two, and so far there are people who agree with it. So, clearly this isn't just one guy "having a bad day". Metros (talk) 04:40, 2 March 2008 (UTC)

Deal?

If I rewrote the campaign userpage giving details of the "campaign" like a wikipedia article rather than a campaign website and stopped asking Jimbo about being my "running mate" would you withdraw the nomination? If not please explain to me what I could do to prevent it from being deleted.--Uga Man (talk) UGA MAN FOR PRESIDENT 2008 05:55, 2 March 2008 (UTC)

User:Neutralhomer

I'm not prepared to file a sockpuppetry case or any other formal accusation, as the edits of Tehunknown (talk · contribs) are still in their early stages. But, seeing as how this new user is editing heavily in areas of User:Neutralhomer's expertise and his first edit was to add Twinkle to his monobook.js has me a little more than suspicious. Just thought I'd give you a head's up. Happy editing. JPG-GR (talk) 09:19, 2 March 2008 (UTC)

Oy, yes. What a post to wake up to. It does, indeed, look like a sockpuppet. Let's give it a bit to pan out and see what happens. Metros (talk) 12:24, 2 March 2008 (UTC)

User:Metros323

Is this page really necessary? Basketball110 _{what famous people say} ♣ 18:43, 2 March 2008 (UTC)

Ask the person who created it trying to imitate this user. Metros had nothing to do with it. See the block log for that user. Dreaded Walrus ^{t c} 18:53, 2 March 2008 (UTC)

Okay. Sorry. Basketball110 _{what famous people say} ♣ 18:59, 2 March 2008 (UTC)

Oh, and if you were wondering if it was necessary to have a redirect to this page from that page (which you probably were, in retrospect), this is quite a common practice when blocking impersonators of other users, or for usernames similar to those of an existing, well-known user. See all of the redirects to User:Jimbo Wales, for example. Dreaded Walrus ^{t c} 19:02, 2 March 2008 (UTC)

Look out

4User:3tonsoup sock! —Remember, the Edit will be with you, always. (Sethdoe92) ^{(drop me a line)} 21:18, 3 March 2008 (UTC)

SunStar Net

Please see my talk page - User_talk:Sarah#Unblock. I'm pretty sure that Solumerias has conned an admin into unblocking (now reblocked) the IP and creating (or allowing him to create) a new account. May be worthwhile keeping an eye on the account. The story this person has passed on is the exact same story that Solumerias was trying to peddle to the unblock list last month after I first blocked the IP. Cheers, Sarah 11:16, 5 March 2008 (UTC)

re: Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Matt Boyd (wrestler)

Please do not remove comments from AFD discussions. It almost invariably does far more harm than help. I concede that the comments you removed were incivil and unhelpful to the discussion at large. Arguably, they constituted a prohibited personal attack. Please trust the other discussion participants to see through the trolling and to weight the comment appropriately.

Worse though, when you removed the hostile comment, you left no placeholder on the page documenting your action. Simply removing the comment without leaving any trace of your action creates confusion among new users and unnecessary hostility among all the participants. If you absolutely must remove a blatant personal attack, you should always leave a note on that page saying so. (The format Personal attack by user:foo removed by user:me timestamp is what I've seen most often.)

The other advice I would offer is that you should probably not do the monitoring on that particular discussion. As the nominator, you are too much of an interested party. Let other good-faith editors monitor and coach the discussion toward more civil discourse. Thanks. Rossami (talk) 06:49, 11 March 2008 (UTC)

Duly noted. Turns out that (like I suspected) we were dealing with the sockpuppet of the author of the article. Metros (talk) 11:59, 11 March 2008 (UTC)

Twaz

Good to see we're both keeping on top of things[1]! ;-) Ryan Postlethwaite 04:22, 12 March 2008 (UTC)

Great minds...great minds... Metros (talk) 04:23, 12 March 2008 (UTC)

Non-Admin Redirects

Hey Metros, I closed two AfDs today for merge/redirects both of them were clearly consensus and I was wondering if this is alright to continue. I don't intend to touch Deletes with a 10 foot pole after seeing your warning to Auto, as I had reservations about it in the first place... but if you could let me know about the redirects/merges I'd appreciate it. I want to help clear a little of the backlog.--Torchwood Who? (talk) 20:21, 12 March 2008 (UTC)

I'd say only if it's very clear consensus. Metros (talk) 21:38, 12 March 2008 (UTC)

Lazyguythewerewolf

Hi, Lazyguythewerewolf is still making the same reverts to Ratchet & Clank Future: Tools of Destruction that got him blocked for 3RR. While his account has only reverted twice since he was unblocked, this IP, 84.92.84.17 has made the same exact revert so I suspect it to be him. Is there anyway to block him again since he seems too stubborn to listen? Thanks, Strongsauce (talk) 20:49, 13 March 2008 (UTC)

I've blocked the user again for 72 hours for the continued edit warring. Metros (talk) 21:27, 13 March 2008 (UTC)

Thanks for that. Strongsauce (talk) 22:40, 13 March 2008 (UTC)

Thanks

Thanks for de-sockpuppeting me. Naddington (talk) 21:24, 13 March 2008 (UTC)

Of course. Sorry for that rude welcome. This vandal likes to add that sockpuppet tag to new users disruptively. Sorry for that; hopefully it doesn't deter you! Metros (talk) 21:30, 13 March 2008 (UTC)

Sweet

Thanks for the heads up. Will do in the future! Do the same for expand? --User:Twaz 17:30, 14 March 2008 (UTC)

For expansion requests, add a reason why you think it should be expanded to the talk page. So if it's a biography article about, let's say, a politician and you think it addresses his role well as a Senator but doesn't address his previous position as State Representative enough, you can explain that on the talk page. Metros (talk) 17:33, 14 March 2008 (UTC)

Alright. So, first I notify the candidate. Assuming they approve, create a nomination page. And then answer the questions? Alot of learning, but I'm getting the hang of it. --InvisibleDiplomat₆⁶₆ 17:54, 14 March 2008 (UTC)

report

I was told by you to resubmit them. I only submitted one out of two up to the that point. so why did you delete my second one about colfer? Uconnstud (talk) 20:17, 14 March 2008 (UTC)

You've submitted three reports today: 1, 2, and 3. 1 was declined as no action. 2 has 2 reverts listed, one by Jaysweet, one by Colfer2. 3 is a duplicate of 1 with Jaysweet's name replaced with Colfer2's in the header; all the diffs given there are by Jaysweet and not Colfer2. Metros (talk) 20:24, 14 March 2008 (UTC)

ok you declined no action and stated to submit them seperately. I submitted one, and admin stated that they were old. I didn't have enough time to respond before the no block was placed in. I didn't have the chance to say that I was under block by YOU so I couldn't respond without circumventing my block. The coffer only had to be fixed.. but he did edit war. The other two users weren't even warned, and I was blocked. They combined reverted 6 times with at least 4 on one and 2 on the other. I didn't heed your warning I actually went so formally.. Uconnstud (talk) 20:37, 14 March 2008 (UTC)

Thanks

Thanks for the reverts on my user page and talk page. I haven't seen you about for a while - glad to see you in action. Best, Gwernol 20:59, 14 March 2008 (UTC)

Yeah, I've slowed down a lot, but I've found myself with a lot of free time in the last week or so; I doubt this will last much longer though. The slowdown will probably resume in a few days. Metros (talk) 21:01, 14 March 2008 (UTC)

Thanks

- for this! Scarian^{Call me Pat} 21:42, 14 March 2008 (UTC)

Of course. Metros (talk) 21:48, 14 March 2008 (UTC)

Wow

That was quick! I'm guessing you have history with that editor? (Better you than me—I've been down a similar road before.) Nicely done. —Hello, Control ^{Hello, Tony} 21:46, 16 March 2008 (UTC)

Hah, yeah, it looks pretty obvious: same articles, same lack of citation, went straight to the sockpuppeteer's talk page, etc. Metros (talk) 21:50, 16 March 2008 (UTC)

More Lazyguythewerewolf

Hi, I was wondering if you can block lazyguythewerewolf again? He is still editwarring on Ratchet & Clank Future: Tools of Destruction (hist) after coming off his block. Strongsauce (talk) 23:51, 18 March 2008 (UTC)

what article

you didnt mention what article.--Iwilleditu (talk) 19:45, 22 March 2008 (UTC)

National FFA Organization. Metros (talk) 19:49, 22 March 2008 (UTC)

ok --Iwilleditu (talk) 22:02, 22 March 2008 (UTC)

Wikiproject Ag-Ed

You recently comment me on my proposal saying it should be a task Force and i agree so if you dont mind commenting on my propsal for a task force at Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Agriculture#Proposed_Ag-Ed_Taskforce thankyou. :) --Iwilleditu^Hi :) 23:19, 22 March 2008 (UTC)

Deletion of ThunderClan

Hi. You recently deleted the article for ThunderClan. I know you suggested to take the case to WP:DRV, but as that page said to talk with the admin first, that is what I'm doing. I understand why previous versions of the article have been deleted - they were in-universe fancruft. However, the version I have prepared for Wikipedia (see my sandbox) is out of universe and as far as I can tell, not fancruft. Could you please take another look? Thanks a lot, Shrewpelt (talk) 14:35, 28 March 2008 (UTC)

WHY!!??

Why did you delete vmy article. You are deleting all my articles. This is unfair!! ): ):-- King Rock ^{Go 'Skins!} 21:49, 30 March 2008 (UTC)

Which article? Metros (talk) 21:50, 30 March 2008 (UTC)

the DC Squash Academy one!-- King Rock ^{Go 'Skins!} 21:57, 30 March 2008 (UTC)

Because it is not a notable organization. It's also just a vanity page for you to talk about how great your club is. Metros (talk) 21:59, 30 March 2008 (UTC)

!!! what ever-- King Rock ^{Go 'Skins!} 22:00, 30 March 2008 (UTC)

That kind of "I'm going to take my ball and go home because the mean man won't let me have my way" attitude won't go over so well here. I highly suggest you take time to read through our policies and guidelines on articles and then you won't see your articles deleted. Metros (talk) 22:03, 30 March 2008 (UTC)

sorry

i sorry for ticking off on you but lately all my articles have been delted and you just seem to be a part of the deletion-- King Rock ^{Go 'Skins!} 22:08, 30 March 2008 (UTC)

Block of User:Concerned anon

Did you intend to block this user? It looks to me as though you got him confused with one of the trolls that was attacking User talk:Gavin.collins, but I thought I'd double-check before unblocking. Thanks. Hersfold ^(t/a/c) 04:19, 31 March 2008 (UTC)

I just believe he's attached to the trolls attacking Gavin Collins. It's highly suspicious for a user to register to say that as the attack is happening. Metros (talk) 04:21, 31 March 2008 (UTC)

Hi Metros. I just went ahead and unblocked; see post on ANI. I think it ends OK now, and I do understand why you blocked in the first place. Cheers, Antandrus (talk) 05:29, 31 March 2008 (UTC)

User:English836

I'll certify an RfC if you start one; I've looked a little deeper into his contribution and, as they stand, he's a liability rather than an asset to the encyclopedia. He either needs to readjust the way he contributes or be made to readjust. — Coren ^(talk) 00:08, 1 April 2008 (UTC)

I'll be a bit busy for the next few days, but I'll try to put a draft together by week's end. Metros (talk) 01:49, 1 April 2008 (UTC)

Hi, Metros. I have not spoken to you before, but was approached by English836 early today with regards to the Beekman Fire District article and yourself. He feels you pick on him and before filing any RfCs I thought we should try to see if we can talk this out. Are you happy to try to discuss this, and if it fails to take it to RfC? Tiddly-Tom 00:29, 2 April 2008 (UTC)

Discuss what? His actions are questionable, his lying is ridiculous, and his fear of my "stalking" is overblown. If he created appropriate articles, didn't lie about his actions, didn't make up sources, didn't lie about what sources do and don't say, then we might not have these issues. Looking at his planned RFC about me, I'd say maybe one, possibly two, of the diffs he lists could be construed as partially out of line. If you want the real issue here, look at Wikipedia:Administrators'_noticeboard/IncidentArchive393#Blatant_lies_of_English836. There is a load of evidence there of his actions (both under English836 and his previous names of Mgarnes2 and NightRider63) being wholly inappropriate.

See Wikipedia:STALK#Wikistalking. None of what I am doing is out of line. I am more than welcome to review his contributions, especially in cases where "errors or violations of Wikipedia policy, or correcting related problems on multiple articles" occurs. His edit history proves he has violated policy, across numerous articles. So, no, I do not think there is anything to discuss about my actions, but rather, about his issues. Metros (talk) 01:37, 2 April 2008 (UTC)

And I'm sure he'll deny any connection between himself and NightRider63/Mgarnes2, but the edit histories are blatantly obvious. And the fact that you just called him Matt only further confirms this. Metros (talk) 01:38, 2 April 2008 (UTC)

I've never been to RfC, but don't you need two users to try and fail to resolve the same dispute? From those linked on English836's draft RfC I see two violations of assume good faith and one uncivil edit summery. Tiddly-Tom 13:17, 2 April 2008 (UTC)

The blatant self-evident lack of assuming good faith is off base. He fails to assume good faith, some of his edits that I pointed out on my RFC are definitley un-civil, and ill timed. As soon as I came out from not editing, and started working on articles, he HAD to start up again, because he holds grudges, another violation of Wiki policy. I see so many problems with this.--English836 (talk) 14:26, 2 April 2008 (UTC)

Like I said, the issue lies in your editing. If you didn't have such issues, would we be having this problem? No. But as I explicitly detailed, you lie, you edit in conflicts of interest, you create articles with questionable notability (which is why I AFDed your article on Depot Hill, on 207, on Sleep Tech, and on Grandpa Eisen). note: this "Grandpa Eisen" line is about the fact that Leonard Eisen is the grandfather of this user (see [2]) and not a statement on his age as this user has suggested that was a personal attack against Eisen. Metros (talk) 15:16, 2 April 2008 (UTC)

That first link you provide is far from anti-AGF. In fact, it was me attempting to be helpful. He seemed to express a desire to step away from Wikipedia under his previous account. So when he returned under this one, I was just pointing out to him that others realized who he was and that if he didn't want to be connected to his previous accounts, he should change up his editing. And yes, RFCs required two to certify, but that's an issue that you can bring up with him since he's the one creating the RFC draft right now. Metros (talk) 14:30, 2 April 2008 (UTC)

I'm speaking to you right now, so is he so that makes two ;) I'm not going to say that English836's editing is perfect, but it is obvious his intents are 6good. Tiddly-Tom 16:47, 2 April 2008 (UTC)

Well open the RFC then. Metros (talk) 16:48, 2 April 2008 (UTC)

I'm trying to avoid the use of a RfC but if we can't get anywhere with this I think it will be inevitable. Tiddly-Tom 16:53, 2 April 2008 (UTC)

What is the issue? At best I've said two things that could be taken as uncivil. I don't see any issue here; a lot of people get uncivil occasionally when they're frustrated. Would you agree that English836/nightrider63's actions have been inappropriate? You say he has had good intentions, but when is lying about sources ever a good intention? Metros (talk) 19:16, 2 April 2008 (UTC)

If English836 feels unhappy/annoyed about your action, that is an issue. Wether these concerns are well founded is a different matter. Some of English836's actions have been inappropriate. By good intentions, I mean he wishes to improve the encyclopedia rather than damage it. Tiddly-Tom 19:48, 2 April 2008 (UTC)

You are both welcome to start an RFC, but I don't see what will arise out of it. Metros (talk) 19:51, 2 April 2008 (UTC)

User:MECU

Hey metros. Yeah, I would definitely say I vandalized Mecu's article, but only because he decided to mess with my articles. If my images are already marked as public domain (us gov), why is he messing with them?! I hate to be so unprofessional, but if he's too dumb to check the link on the main page, he shouldn't have the rights to flag everything that he runs into. Apparently, I'm not the only person who has had that problem with him [[3]] — Preceding unsigned comment added by Jimmyjones22 (talk • contribs)

His actions were correct. You never provided a source for the photo. Please stop insulting other users. Metros (talk) 03:54, 1 April 2008 (UTC)

It's insulting to have legitimate images removed. It frustrates me to no end that all my work can be flushed at the click of a button by someone on the other side of the planet who probably didn't even read over my article or make any constructive edits at all. Why did wikipedia even allow me to upload the images in the first place? (which was over a year ago) It seems to me that they were legitimate until today.

You guys should consider changing the upload process so that images uploaded have required fields to be filled (such as the source, permissions). As far as I was concerned over a year ago, when I clicked the little "public domain" and "US government images" it was good to go. Otherwise, why would wikipedia allow me to upload it? Doesn't this reflect the failings of wikipedia as much as it does mine? Anyways, I'm just severely irritated. Feel free to respond/ignore to this semi-legitimate rant. Jimmyjones22 (talk) 05:35, 1 April 2008 (UTC)

Me again. Please read User:MECU talk page and view my latest contribution. I would like some type of feedback on this issue. Oh, and thanks for 24 hour cool off period, as strang as that sounds. I seriously needed that time to cool my temper down (>_<) Jimmyjones22 (talk) 12:36, 2 April 2008 (UTC)

I responded to your post. Feel free to join in. I feel these are valid points that need to be addressed. Jimmyjones22 (talk) 13:27, 2 April 2008 (UTC)

Ok, I have the feeling i'm being ignored, but that's ok. Here's my response.

Aggravation on my part? I'm sorry to have involved you, Metros - you obviously are in the dark about what has been going on and how this is going to effect wikipedia contributors. I imagine it must be difficult to see things from a non-admin point of view. I'll try to break it down -

1) Admin X leave message saying X images will be deleted

2) if someone is here to contest it, article may be saved, if they are absent for a week, images are lost.

3) Either way, you have disgruntled users who have had their valuable contributions violated.

Flagging images isn't going to solve the problems - a change in the upload process and having people that find the problem take initiative to fix the problem is. When I first uploaded my images six months ago, I put a government tag on them. What was the point of this if I also have to go into the comment section and write the same thing that the government tag says it is? Anyone could just as easily lie for both and get away with it. You should seriously start to change this redundant policy - no one every found common sense in a rule book. Jimmyjones22 (talk) 14:18, 2 April 2008 (UTC)

Sorry(again)

you seem to be done with me and i can understand but can you please accept my appology. I know I was wrong for accusing you and being just upright wrong and I appoligize. If you dont accept my appology just rememeber I am sorry and hope there are no hard feelings-- King Rock ^{Go 'Skins!} 21:46, 1 April 2008 (UTC)

Uh, I'd advise against posting apologies so many times. It kind of gets on a user's nerves. --Gp75motorsports ^{REV LIMITER} 21:20, 4 April 2008 (UTC)

RFC

WP:AN#Cabals, part 2. There's an RFC in the making. Just notifying you in case you don't check AN, as I'd like to have the entire community (or at least a lot of opinions) in this. Cheers, Master of Puppets _{Call me MoP! :)} 21:03, 2 April 2008 (UTC)

Re:Look

...and there's something wrong with that? See, the only thing I'm trying to do besides write things without getting slapped with a two week block is trying to help other users. If you don't like my way of doing so, just indef me like we both know is going to happen before my topic ban is up. I don't mean any incivility, but this is my way of trying to help. Everyone has their different ways of doing things. --Gp75motorsports ^{REV LIMITER} 19:47, 4 April 2008 (UTC)

Okay, that was completely wrong. I get the point now-don't comment unless I'm called to comment. Forgive me for my previous blind rage. --Gp75motorsports ^{REV LIMITER} 20:30, 4 April 2008 (UTC)