User talk:HalfShadow

Talkback tags are unnecessary; when I post on a page, I watch it, so you can respond either there or here.

Lubrication

Speaking of lubrication, I'm sipping a mimosa while trying to educate with the carrot, rather than the stick. I need another mimosa! -- Flyguy649 ^talk 17:49, 13 February 2010 (UTC)

We should leave a bottle of that in the washroom of Jimbo's Talk page, out of courtesy to future international visitors and newbies and such. :-) Oberonfitch (talk) 21:49, 17 February 2010 (UTC)

Wrong warning, maybe?

I noticed that you posted a generic warning on a user's talk page for vandalizing their own talk page. Reverting was correct, but I think it required something along the lines of blanking talk pages does not get rid of the warnings. Might be something useful to remember next time. Also, for technical reasons, the link to their talk page was also disabled because the viewer is already on the page. mechamind90 18:34, 13 February 2010 (UTC)

I hope you didn't spit on your keyboard/monitor

;) -- Flyguy649 ^talk 01:26, 15 February 2010 (UTC)

User:Jackgoldcastle

Your comment is interesting: I assumed he was an well-meaning child with no real idea of what WP is about, and was sighing (well, am still sighing) at the prospect of going through his edits and trying to explain what he was doing wrong. I will bear in mind what you say. Regards, JohnCD (talk) 18:01, 17 February 2010 (UTC)

A well meaning child was my first impression, but I'm starting to think it is more along the lines of someone with a child's mind, sadly. Disruptive is disruptive and must be stopped, but let's tread lightly on what may be a poor soul.Njsustain (talk) 23:03, 17 February 2010 (UTC)

"talk it out"

you serious? your blaming me? it takes two to do an edit war, that is my fault as well as his. but it's not my fault he wont listen. how can i talk to a guy who reverts my edits, and when i go to his talk page, threatens to report me. you think it's easy? Bread Ninja (talk) 19:13, 17 February 2010 (UTC)

if you don't care, and don't know anything about the situation, why bother to report any of us for something you aren't sure of? I can't talk to him, he will revert my post on his talk page and report me.

i could keep reverting my conversation until he reports me, or i could ignore you, either way. i'm getting reportedBread Ninja (talk) 19:20, 17 February 2010 (UTC)

just to let you know, threatening cop voice, is something I'm not going to stand. talk to me in a nicer, non threatening, tone. because that's being uncivil, and is something that could be reported for. just because someone had an edit war, doesn't mean you can't hear them out..Bread Ninja (talk) 15:44, 18 February 2010 (UTC)

User:Dcatmusic

Hi HalfShadow, and thanks for your report of Dcatmusic to WP:UAA. I wanted to ask you if you could, in the future, place an appropriate {{db}} tag on spam pages rather than simply blanking them. It makes it much easier for us admins to find and delete that way. Thanks! Ioeth (talk contribs twinkle friendly) 21:50, 18 February 2010 (UTC)

"GTFO"

I like your version better. My right-brain is in low gear today. ←Baseball Bugs ^{What's up, Doc?} carrots→ 23:34, 20 February 2010 (UTC)

• Come and get it~! *dangles some carrot in-front of Bugs* --Dave ^{♠♣♥♦1185♪♫™} 10:52, 21 February 2010 (UTC)

"Hewe, wabbit-wabbit-wabbit... nice fwesh cawwots!" ←Baseball Bugs ^{What's up, Doc?} carrots→ 15:06, 21 February 2010 (UTC)

Thank you.

Thanks for reverting the vandal's edit on my userpage. - Zhang He (talk) 20:45, 21 February 2010 (UTC)

Admin?

Oh, come on... run for admin... pay your debt to society. :) ←Baseball Bugs ^{What's up, Doc?} carrots→ 04:38, 24 February 2010 (UTC)

No guts, no gory. ←Baseball Bugs ^{What's up, Doc?} carrots→ 04:45, 24 February 2010 (UTC)

I tried running once, and aside from the utter humiliation, it didn't hurt a bit. 0:) ←Baseball Bugs ^{What's up, Doc?} carrots→ 05:03, 24 February 2010 (UTC)

I was actually here a few hours ago asking the same thing. He said on my talk page, "Not again, thank you. If I'm offered the job, I'll consider it; if I have to make a target of myself first, no thank you." NerdyScienceDude :) (✉ click to talk • my edits • sign) 05:10, 24 February 2010 (UTC)

Re: Edit 346033517

Is that supposed to be a joke or were you serious?  єmarsee  • Speak up! 04:59, 24 February 2010 (UTC)

(Eh, he don't know you vewy well, do he?) ←Baseball Bugs ^{What's up, Doc?} carrots→ 05:14, 24 February 2010 (UTC)

Yeah, well, don't say I didn't warn you. Most of the Haida are well adjusted, the rest are psychotic... HalfShadow 17:23, 24 February 2010 (UTC)

There's just no middle ground. ←Baseball Bugs ^{What's up, Doc?} carrots→ 18:34, 24 February 2010 (UTC)

• While I agree that this particular editor is proving to be problematic, that does not excuse inappropriate comments about his ethnicity like yours referenced above or that you recently made to AN/I. Please, let's keep to the issues of his conduct (which there's plenty enough misconduct of his to talk about, alas). —C.Fred (talk) 23:22, 26 February 2010 (UTC)

Oops, wrong IP

This is what you get for copy-pasting the wrong IP ... Blueboy96 02:52, 28 February 2010 (UTC)

I dunno ... seems a bit suspicious that he went right to that talkpage so soon after you warned him. The timing's just too perfect. Blueboy96 02:56, 28 February 2010 (UTC)

SPI time, perhaps? Blueboy96 03:00, 28 February 2010 (UTC)

Someone beat me to the stapler...

In any event, someone else clobbered the IP. Thanks for letting me know, though. --PMDrive1061 (talk) 03:18, 28 February 2010 (UTC)

• Which simply proves the theory that the internet has no shortage of weirdos.  :) I just requested a CU on what is almost definitely a MascotGuy copycat. Not only am I dealing with a copycat, but I got chewed out by another user (rightfully so, I admit) for putting some nasty remarks about MG on previous CU requests. I really need to reevaluate my priorities here. Beating back these idiot vandals has worn me out. --PMDrive1061 (talk) 03:31, 28 February 2010 (UTC)

We are going on, I believe, seven years for MascotGuy. He's pretty hard to forget. --PMDrive1061 (talk) 03:35, 28 February 2010 (UTC)

You think I made up those titles?!!

ExCUSE me. Those titles were copied directly off tvguide.ca. I did not invent them. There will eventually be entries on those episodes, and you will kindly tell me the gross, deadly harm that is done by listing the titles pending the filling out of the details on those episodes.

If you don't believe me, then go to www.tvguide.ca, do a search on Backyardigans and you will see those episodes as coming up in the next 14 days.

[1]

There's a link right to the information I saw, (though of course, updated since that date).

I expect you to tell me why you think those upcoming episodes should not at least have their titles listed. GBC (talk) 14:55, 2 March 2010 (UTC)

Schools

You wrote that "I've always felt identified school-IPs should be soft-blocked on sight." I agree. Has this been proposed before? If not, we could give a go at getting approval for this, schools are responsible for a lot of the more nasty vandalism. Fences&Windows 23:17, 2 March 2010 (UTC)

University of Perpetual Help System DALTA

Had to kill your CSD, I'm afraid. Web Archive shows that the site http://www.perpetualdalta.edu.ph does not appear until Mid 2006, and part of that data was already on the Wikipedia page, and it looks like the http://www.perpetualdalta.edu.ph in its current version did not appear on the web until at least 2008, when most of the Wikipedia page was already written - hard to guess an exact date as the actual web page has never been archived - may be because it's less than 6 months old - so for now I had to use the root page - http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.perpetualdalta.edu.ph. I may be wrong, it's always hard to check for copyvio on long established pages  Ronhjones  ^(Talk) 23:41, 7 March 2010 (UTC)

Pan's Labyrinth

Very good point (per your edit summary). Plenty of other places that plot summary can be trimmed. I love having my mind changed. =) Happy editing. Millahnna (mouse)talk 04:57, 8 March 2010 (UTC)

Heh. That was a visual. I love it. Millahnna (mouse)talk 06:10, 8 March 2010 (UTC)

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copyright

yeah, it looked like it, but it was deletable anyway, so I took the easy route (: Jimfbleak - talk to me? 06:31, 18 March 2010 (UTC)

Funny diff

Mind if I add your comments on the Natzi insulting IP to my funny diff secton?--SKATER ^Speak. 02:11, 19 March 2010 (UTC)

Thank you...

...for defending me on the ref desk talk page, which I am just now reading now that the storm seems to have passed. I figured participating in it would only add fuel to the fire, so instead I've tried (again) to temper my natural tendencies to see humor in everything. :) ←Baseball Bugs ^{What's up, Doc?} carrots→ 05:41, 20 March 2010 (UTC)

Ahh, the heading I needed is already here. Thanks for this! —DoRD (talk) 22:09, 27 March 2010 (UTC)

That guy's funny. Not only did he apparently out himself and then blame it on "spyware", but he also told us which branch of the library he was working at. He forgot to give us his street address and his bank account number, though. :(

Late bulletin: According to the library website, there is no Richfield branch. So he put one over on us. He can chuckle to himself, while he's playing with his blocks. :) ←Baseball Bugs ^{What's up, Doc?} carrots→ 22:13, 27 March 2010 (UTC)

note

I'm pleased to see that you're unblocked. When the discussion began this morning, I figured I had best stay out of it and let the admins decide what to do. Welcome back. :) ←Baseball Bugs ^{What's up, Doc?} carrots→ 22:30, 3 May 2010 (UTC)

Lol

Dude. That was epic. Had a couple good laughs from that. Thanks for brightening up my day. Cheers, FASTILY_sock^(TALK) 03:20, 7 April 2010 (UTC)

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Barnstar

		The Barnstar of Good Humor
		You are by far the funniest Wikipedia I've ever crossed paths with, the stuff on Fastily's page was absolutely priceless, as was the nazi stuff on ANI a while back. Well deserved SKATER Speak. 23:52, 7 April 2010 (UTC)

ANI

???? Why did you rv my edit? Didn't seem to be an issue? Or am I being thick ?Pedro :  Chat  19:11, 12 April 2010 (UTC)

Sorry - I see that revert now - got a shout from the kids, saved the above then went away. Cheers. Pedro :  Chat  19:24, 12 April 2010 (UTC)

Yes I'm sure

Look here and go to Country Songs. EnDaLeCoMpLeX (talk) 21:23, 3 May 2010 (UTC)

It's the chart highlights. Every Monday Billboard posts them, and every Thursday the whole site is updated. EnDaLeCoMpLeX (talk) 21:27, 3 May 2010 (UTC)

And HalfShadow can't know this since the user added no reliable source. Reverts were definitely justified. Hekerui (talk) 21:31, 3 May 2010 (UTC)

No, that's fine. Partly my fault for only checking the front page. HalfShadow 21:35, 3 May 2010 (UTC)

Oversight

Thanks for the quick report to oversight, I was in the middle of trying to find the page to report it to.. but you beat me to it :D

Oliver202 (talk) 22:11, 4 May 2010 (UTC)

Erik Watts

Thanks for the help with the Erik Watts page. I saw that someone had posted something inappropriate to the page and was attempting to revert it to what it should have said. I guess I still need work on the HTML stuff. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Bdedwards87 (talk • contribs) 00:18, 11 May 2010 (UTC)

Request for Help writing on article page

I have asked for help on my talk page. Possibly you could help work this out on my page or on the article talk page? Thank you. Anne Maxight (talk) 22:55, 16 May 2010 (UTC)

In case you hadn't noticed...

...The above is a rather obvious anagram of the indef'd "Axmann eight", i.e. Axmann8 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log). Could be the real guy, more likely a copycat. Just FYI. :) ←Baseball Bugs ^{What's up, Doc?} carrots→ 14:51, 18 May 2010 (UTC)

no

Please do not call me an ass. Assorg (talk) 06:47, 18 May 2010 (UTC)

Re Shane Kelly

Hi HalfShadow. Seems a lot of that site is just a WP ripoff - see my comments on my talk page. --jjron (talk) 17:02, 22 May 2010 (UTC)

Edit summary

Was this edit summary really necessary? The Thing That Should Not Be (talk) 03:34, 24 May 2010 (UTC)

A sense of humor? On Wikipedia? Nonsense! </sarcasm> In any case, it really wasn't appropriate for a warning... The Thing That Should Not Be (talk) 03:40, 24 May 2010 (UTC)

User talk:60.242.47.119

Considering that other users may end up using this IP in the future, leaving this as a message isn't exactly the best of ideas. Perhaps you could just keep it to the standard warning system in the future? NW (Talk) 03:35, 24 May 2010 (UTC)

Re:Keep an eye on who's editing the page.

Thanks for the advice! I actually thought that was peculiar but I decided to revert, but, that was the wrong judgment. Darren23^Edits|Mail 22:54, 29 May 2010 (UTC)

A better reply

Hi. I think I was overly dismissive of your concerns yesterday at WQA. More than one person (i.e., not just yourself) brought this to my attention at my talk page, and I have addressed this matter by expanding considerably, I think, on what can be done regarding the behavior of an editor such as Mr. Fatuorum. In particular, if you look at my reply to Padillah, the one with the timestamp "15:07, 2 June 2010 (UTC)", I think I may have addressed the questions you were aptly bringing up.

Please let me know if I can be of further assistance. -GTBacchus^(talk) 16:34, 2 June 2010 (UTC)

Indefinately Blocked

Not you! User:Lilypopluiy for trolling your talk, being a vandalism only account and generally a pain in the tits (but I didn't use the last reason in the block log :)).

I've no wish to get involved...

...but this was really not helpful. Juliancolton (talk) 02:52, 6 June 2010 (UTC)

question about unsigned posts

Been meaning to ask someone for a while. I've been noticing unsigned posts in user and article talk pages that SineBot isn't catching. Is that just case of - hit or miss with SineBot and the unsigned posts or is there something I'm - not seeing? Slightsmile (talk) 18:04, 6 June 2010 (UTC)

Rayovac Page

Since you changed the Rayovac page back to old information, how is it suppose to get updated if someone will just delete it? Do you want current information so you can update it to your specifications? The information box and timeline are not a form of advertisement, they are facts. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.128.4.10 (talk) 18:47, 8 June 2010 (UTC)

note

I gave you reviewer rights on the test wiki. A crat there can make you an admin so you can see how the protection confirmation page incorporates the new pending changes options. Tommy2010 [message] 06:35, 15 June 2010 (UTC)

This helps explain it :) Tommy2010 [message] 12:46, 15 June 2010 (UTC)

Reviewer granted

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Tom Cruise

Mission: Impossible II was the first sequel, M:I III was the second sequel, and M:I IV will be the third sequel. Nufy8 (talk) 03:08, 22 June 2010 (UTC)

List of Redwall characters

Hi Shadow,

Looks good to me. Can you think of any characters that aren't listed? I noticed that the Honourable Rosemary isn't there yet; I'm adding her now.

Neelix (talk) 20:50, 23 June 2010 (UTC)

Fast reverts at AN/I

You've beaten me to revert the blatant NPA and soapboxing at AN/I a couple of times now; I thought I'd point out that the same occured at AN itself, with a different IP. It looks like one editor using multiple IPs to soapbox. GiftigerWunsch [TALK] 21:28, 24 June 2010 (UTC)

Of course I don't know what I expected you to do about that, but never mind, it's been semi-protected for now. GiftigerWunsch [TALK] 21:29, 24 June 2010 (UTC)

PBSKIDS

Hello HalfShadow, thank you for your contributions on articles related to PBS Kids. I'd like to invite you to become a part of Wikipedia:WikiProject PBSKids, a WikiProject aimed at improving the quality of PBS Kids articles on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page for more information. Thanks!

Paul Akers

I noticed that you tagged the article Paul Akers for speedy deletion. Even though the article in it's current form is not acceptable for Wikipedia, it was not a Wikipedia article yet and should not have been tagged for speedy deletion. The article was a submission submitted to Wikipedia:Articles for creation, and declining the submission would have been a better action. --Slon02 (talk) 17:56, 1 July 2010 (UTC)

Barnstar

		The Barnstar of Good Humor
		I saw the comment you left on ratinator's page. Very funny especially because you're right. JDDJS (talk) 05:49, 8 July 2010 (UTC)

Your indefinite block is re-instated

I will not template you, as I am sure you know how to use the unblock template. I haven't looked into this too deeply, following your comments at ANI, but if you were indef blocked for personal attacks I presume that you gave some sort of undertaking not to indulge in such behaviour. That you did is regrettable, but the response you gave at ANI gives no hope that is was a passing aberration. The community has previously indicated it will not tolerate this behaviour, regardless of the good work you otherwise do. I suggest you consider the propriety of your recent actions. LessHeard vanU (talk) 18:28, 16 July 2010 (UTC)

You presume incorrectly:

• 11:50, 24 April 2010 Scott MacDonald (talk | contribs) blocked HalfShadow (talk | contribs) (account creation blocked) with an expiry time of 1 week ‎ (Violations of the Biographies of living persons policy)

My unblock had no bearing on what had it extended, only the original block reason.

Nonetheless, good for you: that'll show me for reverting vandalism and stuff. HalfShadow 19:54, 16 July 2010 (UTC)

It would be helpful if blocking administrators provided a link to whatever it was they believe justifies their action. Ought to be mandatory really. Malleus Fatuorum 20:08, 16 July 2010 (UTC)

I've dug out the unblock discussion for LHvU's benefit, and posted over at ANI. I do think you ought to 'watch yer gob', and if it were me I'd probably stick you on ice until the discussion had finished (because Loosmark is going to not succeed very badly anyway), but I don't think a reinstated indef is appropriate, as the indef wasn't for personal attacks per se.Elen of the Roads (talk) 22:00, 16 July 2010 (UTC)

I've also disagreed with the block (it was a snide and rude little comment not worthy of you though) but pointed out the obvious that you'll be unblocked shortly anyway. Pedro :  Chat  22:11, 16 July 2010 (UTC)

• I will, in no way make an agreement or promise to such an extent that I will promise I may not be rude in future. The second I do that, you'll look for the smallest excuse to use it against me, and I'm not nearly stupid enough to give you such an opening. The best you'll get from me is an apology. HalfShadow 17:15, 18 July 2010 (UTC)

Welcome back

Please please please... disengage and talk to Bugs or me the next time you bump into such scenarios/bozos again, wil'ya? BTW, I don't suppose that you subscribe to WP:DGAF? If not, I guess now would be a good time. Best. --Dave ^{♠♣♥♦1185♪♫™} 01:21, 19 July 2010 (UTC)

We live in strange times, and administrators routinely target those editors they take a dislike to. Earlier this evening I saw one editor call another a cunt,[2] with no comment from the civility police. Go figure. Like you HalfShadow, I get blocked for even hinting that another editor may be one card short of a full deck. Malleus Fatuorum 01:32, 19 July 2010 (UTC)

• Yes, welcome back. Just a couple of matters, I reinstated this ( 21:16, 24 April 2010 Sandstein (talk | contribs | block) changed block settings for HalfShadow (talk | contribs) with an expiry time of indefinite (account creation blocked) ‎ (Personal attacks or harassment: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:HalfShadow&diff=prev&oldid=358080648)) indefinite block, being the last one previously in your block log. You will note that it was in respect of personal attacks. Secondly, have we interacted before? I only sort of recognised the account name, but then I have been around long enough for many editors names to have passed before my eyes - long enough to know that Malleus Fatuorum (who I do know, because I usually misspell his name Factuorum) is not always correct in his assumptions; I do not dislike you, because I don't know you. Lastly (I know I said only a couple of things, but...) I did not require any promises, I just said you should look at the way you do things. Anyhoo, welcome back. LessHeard vanU (talk) 20:24, 20 July 2010 (UTC)

?

what was that for? Choyoołʼįįhí:Seb az86556 ^{> haneʼ} 02:52, 19 July 2010 (UTC)

OK. I was surprised for a moment... if anyone understands sarcasm, it should be you :) Choyoołʼįįhí:Seb az86556 ^{> haneʼ} 02:54, 19 July 2010 (UTC)

Haha, that was funny. Are you two joining? It's a kind of Seinfeld club--about nothing, so that should be easy. While I'm here: welcome back, Half! Now stop being such a f***ing asshole, or I'm running for admin just to get you blocked and extradited! (to Alaska.) Drmies (talk) 03:05, 19 July 2010 (UTC)

MOTD Barnstar

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		This award is given to you for helping out Motto of the day. Thanks to your effort, MOTD has brilliantly and successfully passed the most difficult period of the year. In fact, there are mottoes scheduled until the end of the summer. For this reason MOTD would like to express heartfelt thanks to you for your support. We appreciate your efforts in further helping the project! – delivered by Simply south on behalf of Wikipedia:Motto of the day 22:59, 22 July 2010 (UTC)

July 2010

You have been blocked from editing for a period of 24 hours for your disruption caused by edit warring and violation of the three-revert rule at Floyd Mayweather, Jr.. During a dispute, you should first try to discuss controversial changes and seek consensus. If that proves unsuccessful you are encouraged to seek dispute resolution, and in some cases it may be appropriate to request page protection. If you would like to be unblocked, you may appeal this block by adding below this notice the text {{unblock|Your reason here}}, but you should read our guide to appealing blocks first. Courcelles (talk) 02:36, 31 July 2010 (UTC)

Template:Z10

Nothing in those edits qualified as an exemption under the WP:3RR, and you made four reverts. Further, you used rollback to do it, instead of discussing it with the other user. Nothing you did in this situation helped to lower the tension involved, it kept escalating and ends up with you both blocked. WP:ANEW is there for a reason- you should have disengaged and used it. Courcelles (talk) 02:43, 31 July 2010 (UTC)

Couldn't disagree more. Choyoołʼįįhí:Seb az86556 ^{> haneʼ} 02:46, 31 July 2010 (UTC)q

I'm willing to unblock you if you'll acknowledge that you broke the 3RR and promise not to do it again. The edits wern't helpful, but they weren't "obvious vandalism – edits which any well-intentioned user would immediately agree constitute vandalism, such as page blanking and adding offensive language." either. Courcelles (talk) 02:52, 31 July 2010 (UTC) (ETA: You also need to be very careful about using rollback in such cases. Rollback is for obvious vandalism, not possibly well-intentioned but wrong edits, which is what I think this was.)

Sure, I admit to that. But it wasn't to 'keep the version I want' (which is the case in many examples of edit warring), so much as 'reverting what appeared to be an unhelpful edit'. All I was doing was trying to keep the page 'tidy', that's all. I have a very 'mechanical' method of dealing with edits I see: Are they vandalism? Revert. Are they legitimate? Leave alone. Are they a mess like this? Consider and choose. HalfShadow 02:56, 31 July 2010 (UTC)

• 'Wow'. That's a 'lot' of 'quotes'. I'm 'staring' to 'talk' like an Orz... HalfShadow 03:03, 31 July 2010 (UTC)
  • I've no real objection to an unblock here, but I'm also very concerned that you used the rollback button to edit war. I'm going to punt this one, would the next sysop that wanders along please do what you think is best? Courcelles (talk) 03:59, 31 July 2010 (UTC)

That was my fault; as the edits by this user to iOS jailbreaking were essentially vandalism in nature, I just continued using rollback to revert their continuing edits to the other article. I'm generally more careful with rollback. HalfShadow 05:08, 31 July 2010 (UTC)

• Unblocked. I'm exhausted and going to bed, but continuing this block serves no useful purpose. You need to be more mindful of 3RR and rollback use in the future, but the fsct you have never edited the article in question before speaks to this being a series of mistakes in judgment than an edit war over content, I removed the unblock template, copying and pasting doesn't work well on the tablet PC, and this gets you out of CAT:RFU. Blocks, and all us admins had to recite at RFA are to prevent damage to the encyclopaedia, not to punish users, and this one is not doing that st this time. Courcelles (talk) 06:14, 31 July 2010 (UTC)

Incivility

Calling another editor "Captain Wikidrama" was not really helpful. Please try to refrain next time. Thanks. --SarekOfVulcan (talk) 18:54, 31 July 2010 (UTC)

LOL thank you!

"Oh you did NOT just template me"-I love it, made my day! :)--Chris (クリス • フィッチ) (talk) 04:10, 11 August 2010 (UTC)

Ass is back...

Sorry about the "diva moment." Been having some nice talks with other users off-wiki and it seems that I have the information I need to possibly put an end to this situation once and for all. No way I'm going to let some semi-literate mental case on a library computer drive me off again. Thanks for the ass-kicking.  :) --PMDrive1061 (talk) 15:01, 16 August 2010 (UTC)

OK Shadows, I can admit when I was wrong, apparently the message was received in the spirit in which it was intended. Beeblebrox (talk) 15:08, 16 August 2010 (UTC)

Tell you what: It's nice knowing that Jimbo is now involved. This same guy has been harassing him nonstop. I've already reported this to the proper authorities. In fact, the pathetic little loser just tried screwing around at Eflightwiki again. I simply blocked him, reverted his edits, locked down the pages and walked away. I'd love to egg him on, but he's simply too pathetic and hopelessly lost an individual for me to waste my time on. Best I can do is to dodge and parry and pray. --PMDrive1061 (talk) 22:36, 16 August 2010 (UTC)

You're right on the money. I'd done that knee-jerk retirement not so much for him as for the fact I felt abandoned by well-meaning users citing protocol. I really think we might just make some real strides in getting this guy blocked and banned for good; he apparently doesn't even own a computer and uses public resources. I've made several e-mail inquiries and I'll follow up with phone calls if I get no response. In a way, I pity him now that I know more about him. His mind is just blown; there are indications that he isn't a child but a poor, sick adult. Now that I have admin rights at Eflightwiki, I can just block him there and walk away. That site's owner is aware of the fact and has been very helpful. --PMDrive1061 (talk) 23:11, 16 August 2010 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Pending changes/Vote comment

As you commented in the pending closure discussion I am notifying you that the Wikipedia:Pending changes/Vote comment is now open and will be for two weeks, discussion as required can continue on the talkpage. Thanks. Off2riorob (talk) 23:12, 21 August 2010 (UTC)

Jewdefence

Perhaps a level 4 warning would have been sufficient, and not an immediate indefblock? See User_talk:DavidAppletree#Suggestion -- Avi (talk) 23:46, 29 August 2010 (UTC)

Since he wasn't actually blocked, he may think he can get away with more. I think this is better, do you mind that I changed it to {{uw-npa4im}}? -- Avi (talk) 23:51, 29 August 2010 (UTC)

My mistake. I left a message for the blocking admin, but I am not going to unblock him myself. I will leave it up to that admin. Sorry about troubling you. -- Avi (talk) 23:54, 29 August 2010 (UTC)

Ibrahimovic

Just checked into the AC Milan website: Ibrahimovic was actually assigned #11 as jersey number, whereas Robinho will have #70. (see here, it is in Italian however) The club seems like having forgotten having updated the squad page, however... --Angelo (talk) 20:30, 31 August 2010 (UTC)

I assume they'll update the page by tomorrow, in the meantime we have a source confirming Ibrahimovic will play with #11 number, so we can use it as a reference. If you agreed with that, I would also appreciate if you might leave a comment also in the semi-protection request you have filed minutes ago. Thanks, --Angelo (talk) 20:35, 31 August 2010 (UTC)

I already did it. Thanks for your help, --Angelo (talk) 20:39, 31 August 2010 (UTC)

Taxi Driver

Please respond at Talk:Taxi Driver#Non-free images. rʨanaɢ (talk) 00:39, 18 September 2010 (UTC)

Responded. rʨanaɢ (talk) 00:49, 18 September 2010 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Pending changes/Straw poll on interim usage

Hi. As you recently commented in the straw poll regarding the ongoing usage and trial of Pending changes, this is to notify you that there is an interim straw poll with regard to keeping the tool switched on or switching it off while improvements are worked on and due for release on November 9, 2010. This new poll is only in regard to this issue and sets no precedent for any future usage. Your input on this issue is greatly appreciated. Off2riorob (talk) 23:35, 20 September 2010 (UTC)

Paul De Villiers

Damn, you're fast. I was just in the process of "fixing" "that" myself. 28bytes (talk) 03:44, 22 September 2010 (UTC)

DMSBel

As far as I can tell, neither User:Smartse nor User:Prosfilaes was given a 3RR warning. I'm going to warn them instead of blocking them. — Malik Shabazz ^Talk/_Stalk 22:21, 23 September 2010 (UTC)

regarding Warning

sir, I appreciate that you are willing to make Wikipedia a appropriate source of Knowledge, but you have no right to label my activities as inappropriate. i am working for the benefit for a great profession Occupational Therapy, all the content, i edited was educational. so pls guide me but not with these words. thanks Amit Kochhar Occupational Therapy student