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== Thank you ==

Hi, Deskana! It's me, ANNAfoxlover. Quite some years ago, you adopted me in that Adopt-a-User program when I was quite active in Wikipedia. I'm not sure if you remember, but I was quite the annoying user sometimes; being over-obsessed with my autograph page, having a wacky signature, aspiring ignorantly to become an administrator, and sometimes being rude. You adopted me and gave me correction with patience, even in my bizarre fits of weirdness. Sorry for my inappropriate behavior.

Well, over time I matured and learned various things. Many of the lessons that stuck with me came from you, especially those related to being a good and better contributor online. You helped teach me how awesome that simply being a Wikipedia user can be. I apologize for the trouble I caused you back then. And thank you, thank you, for being a great Wikipedia adopter. I'm glad to see you're still doing good for the encyclopedia and Wikimedia. Congratulations on your success! Again, thank you. Blessings. [[User:ANNAfoxlover|<span style="background:lightblue"><font face="Times New Roman">A•N•N•A</font></span>]] [[User:ANNAfoxlover/Autographs|<small><font color="color:chartreuse">'''''hi!'''''</font></small>]] 04:55, 26 April 2014 (UTC)

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Echigo mole socks

Hello, thanks for taking care of Coal scuttle (talk · contribs). Could you clarify if the other two accounts currently listed at Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Echigo mole have also been checked yet? Fut.Perf. ☼ 06:24, 24 May 2013 (UTC)[reply]

I found that account while I was doing something completely unrelated. I'm very busy right now so I don't really have the time to check any more, I'm afraid. --(ʞɿɐʇ) ɐuɐʞsǝp 07:46, 26 May 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Question about ThinkEnemies

May I ask why you concluded in Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/ThinkEnemies/Archive that Special:Contributions/PartyJoe is not ThinkEnemies? As far as I can tell their editing interests were very closely related: Obama, the Tea Party, Al Gore, Ron Paul, Glenn Beck (9-12) etc. 5.12.68.204 (talk) 16:52, 26 May 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Deskana stated: "User has provided a plausible (if somewhat unverifiable) explanation for the technical data."
Perhaps he accepted my explanation based on a history of productive contributions to this project. †TE†Talk 19:08, 26 May 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Further, there is a glaring discrepancy between the positions claimed on the user page of PartyJoe [1] (Obama and Dem. supporter) and the clearly sarcastic/trolling edits like [2] or [3] or more serious ones like [4]. PartyJoe's user page was clearly trying to mislead as to who they really were. 5.12.68.204 (talk) 17:20, 26 May 2013 (UTC)[reply]
I hate to badger you further on this, but can you also clarify whether the only other account he admits to, MookieG, was merely an "alternative account suspended" as he now claims, or whether it was found to be an illegal sock-puppet. Many thanks, 5.12.68.204 (talk) 18:22, 26 May 2013 (UTC)[reply]
MookieG was a legitimate alternative account because I never used it to game the system. It was also retired 3 months before being blocked. †TE†Talk 19:08, 26 May 2013 (UTC)[reply]

I'm not going to go digging through an SPI case that is over two years old to find the explanation for some edits. If you have an issue with ThinkEnemies conduct now, then my talk page is not the correct venue; I suggest filing an SPI. --(ʞɿɐʇ) ɐuɐʞsǝp 19:32, 26 May 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Fine. I take your word that MookieG and PartyJoe both having edited Coffee Party USA and D. C. Douglas and Hutaree and Tea Party protests was all a bad coincidence. 5.12.68.204 (talk) 19:41, 26 May 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Frankly, you could take my word to be a flying saucer and I'd be happy with that, because I can't even remember the circumstances of the case. I am interested in pertinent current issues as I stated above. If there are some, file an SPI case. Otherwise, quite frankly, I am not interested. --(ʞɿɐʇ) ɐuɐʞsǝp 19:56, 26 May 2013 (UTC)[reply]

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Choudary protection

Thanks for that, there's nothing worse than Islamophobes (a large percentage of Reddit are) mucking around with such a contentious article. Parrot of Doom 20:58, 12 June 2013 (UTC)[reply]

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User:DeskanaTest

Ermmm... that wasn't you, was it? --Orange Mike | Talk 18:19, 14 June 2013 (UTC)[reply]

It was indeed. We were testing something. :-) --(ʞɿɐʇ) ɐuɐʞsǝp 18:32, 14 June 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Chowkatsun9 SPI

In response to your CheckUser decline of Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Chowkatsun9, I have provided additional diffs. I'm sorry if my original request was inadequate or otherwise unacceptable. Does this satisfy your concerns? szyslak (t) 21:36, 18 June 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Note

I've been working on User:Dennis Brown/Dealing with sock puppets with the goal of moving into meta space soon. Basically a guide for newish users that covers the basics, written in a style any editor can understand. Your input on the page/talk page is welcomed. Dennis Brown | 2¢ | © | WER 13:30, 19 June 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Sounds good. I'm working on a few cases right now, so I'll try to check it out after that. If I've not looked at it in a few days, please do poke me to look again. --(ʞɿɐʇ) ɐuɐʞsǝp 13:31, 19 June 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Poke. I'm thinking of moving this into WP:SOCKHELP but prefer some feedback from those in the know before I do so. I think it is fairly complete and worded in very plain English so anyone can understand. There are probably plenty of things that can be tweaked over time, but I'm more interested in your opinion of the appropriateness and utility rather than correcting my grammar there. Dennis Brown | 2¢ | WER 09:53, 3 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]

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Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Pirokiazuma

Hi Deskana.

I opened this SPI/CU report having previously tagged the user page of the suspected sockpuppet. They were then blocked by Arthur Rubin along with the master account because of obvious disruption. So no checkuser was actually necessary and King of Hearts closed the SPI report accordingly. Subsequently another editor has edited the same article in a completely different way, showing more mathematical competence than Pirokiazuma. In one of their edits they made an error in trying to streamline an argument. I reverted that edit. Their username appears to be Japanese and I see no evidence that they are a sockpuppet, even if recently registered. They made a mistake but have not edit warred as Pirokiazuma did. Incnis Mrsi (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log) has twice reverted the closure adding the new editor but with no further explanation of why he thinks this is a sockpuppet. There is really no evidence at present. If problems do arise (edit warring, etc), Incnis can open a fresh SPI report providing detailed evidence to support his suspicions.

Please could you explain to him how SPI reports are handled? Thanks in advance, Mathsci (talk) 06:20, 25 June 2013 (UTC)[reply]

With no further explanation? How I hate lies. Incnis Mrsi (talk) 06:25, 25 June 2013 (UTC)[reply]
  • Incnis Mrsi, that was not true of the first revert of the administrative close.[5] It was the only edit I looked at in detail. Mathsci (talk) 06:55, 25 June 2013 (UTC)[reply]

As Mathsci said, in general people shouldn't be reverting closures of SPI cases; if you have a new sock to report, add it in a separate, new report. This is also true here. I see Rschen has closed it now and there's been no more trouble, so it seems that Incnis Mrsi understands this now. I think no action from me is needed right now. --(ʞɿɐʇ) ɐuɐʞsǝp 20:37, 25 June 2013 (UTC)[reply]

  • Thanks for replying Deskana. I'm not sure that Incnis Mrsi has understood that what they were doing on the SPI page was not permitted. They have replied below in a not particularly pleasant way. Prior to that, on WikiProject mathematics, presumably referring to me, they wrote,[6] "FYI Endohiraku (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · edit filter log · block user · block log) is his new, active sock. Feel free to track and/or block it, but I will not help anymore because I’m disappointed and upset about rampant incompetence and dickery of the people related with sock hunting." My understanding is that, unless there is a large amount of disruption or exceptional circumstances, reports are usually made at SPI. Moreover, if is thought that a checkuser is needed, arguments or diffs must be presented carefully. Even with a recently created account, I would not immediately file a report on the basis of 3 slightly ambiguous diffs, but would wait. The other socks were blocked by Arthur Rubin who saw the SPI report and has known me for several years. In the case of Endohiraku there was no particular urgency, no deadline. The accounts Junior Wrangler (talk · contribs · logs · block log) and Silver starfish were identified by me as socks of Echigo mole. It was only months or years later that the puppetmaster admitted that they were his sockpuppets. Mathsci (talk) 03:21, 26 June 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Certainly. Mathsci’s opinion was disregarded by anyone but SPI people, the sock was blocked after a reasonable sysop read my analysis, and even if new socks appeared in the future, then CheckUsers’ intervention will be redundant: the situation is now clear without any aid from official sockpuppet investigators. No action from you is needed, thanks for your attention. Incnis Mrsi (talk) 02:23, 26 June 2013 (UTC)[reply]

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Deskana2

Hi Deskana. I just noticed a suspicious-looking request for checkuser and oversight access by a Deskana2 (talk · contribs). I'm almost certain that this is an impersonator account but I thought I would check with you first, out of an abundance of caution. So if you can confirm to me that this isn't your account then I'll be happy to bring down ye olde bannehammer. Best — Mr. Stradivarius ♪ talk ♪ 22:03, 30 June 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Should be CUed and globally locked too, if it's who I think it is, and because Deskana is on the OC. --Rschen7754 22:07, 30 June 2013 (UTC)[reply]
As you suspected, that account is not owned by me. --(ʞɿɐʇ) ɐuɐʞsǝp 00:42, 1 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Looks like T. Canens beat me to the punch. — Mr. Stradivarius ♪ talk ♪ 09:02, 1 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Ombudsman commission RFC

The last post on that RFC was almost a month ago. What is the plan for closing it? Thanks, --Pine✉ 06:54, 3 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Soon™. This is on my list of things to do once I am back from my holiday in Ohio (read: early next week). --(ʞɿɐʇ) ɐuɐʞsǝp 01:03, 4 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]

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Have you had a chance to look at this yet? Callanecc (talk • contribs • logs) 01:29, 30 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]

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Talkback

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I have added diffs per your request. Let me know if more are needed. Thanks. Someone not using his real name (talk) 14:50, 2 August 2013 (UTC) Someone not using his real name (talk) 14:50, 2 August 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Question regarding recreation of deleted page when the user responsible for deletion is blocked

The Baltimore Charter for Women in Astronomy was deleted 19 November 2006 by Centrx who was blocked 6 April 2012 by Hersfold who has subsequently retired. I'm interested in recreating this page and have followed the chain of users to a dead end, so I'm not sure who to contact now regarding why this page was deleted. Please advise. Melissajan0 (talk) 12:56, 7 August 2013 (UTC)[reply]

The block and retirement of the admin who deleted the page is irrelevant to the matter at hand. That said, the article has been deleted for so long that if you think the topic now merits inclusion in Wikipedia then you can just go ahead and create a new article. There was next to no content in the deleted article (which was probably why it was deleted), so you're better starting from scratch. Be sure that the topic meets the notability guidelines or it may be speedy deleted again. --(ʞɿɐʇ) ɐuɐʞsǝp 16:36, 7 August 2013 (UTC)[reply]

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Hey man, hope that didn't come off as too annoying

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Wikipedia talk:Articles for creation/Eberspächer

Thank you for all the information. I only would like to know why I did not have this kind of discussion on our German Wikipedia article, which you can find here: http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ebersp%C3%A4cher_GmbH. The English article is ONLY a translation of this. Hope this will clarify the issue. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Eberspaecher (talk • contribs) 14:43, 15 August 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Eberspaecher, we're not the German Wikipedia. Different wikis have different standards. If you can't meet the standards on this wiki, your stuff doesn't get published on this wiki. Remember what you were told in the help channel: writing an encyclopedia entry is a long and laborious process, so if you're here for any reason other than because you enjoy writing, you're going to be quite frustrated by the entire process.--(ʞɿɐʇ) ɐuɐʞsǝp 15:23, 15 August 2013 (UTC)[reply]

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ACC request

Hi Deskana, Elockid would like you have a look at an ACC request when you get a chance. Thanks, Callanecc (talk • contribs • logs) 11:46, 18 August 2013 (UTC)[reply]

I've handled it. Thanks for notifying me! --(ʞɿɐʇ) ɐuɐʞsǝp 11:49, 18 August 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Discussion at Wikipedia:WikiProject Articles for creation/RfC Reviewer permission

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Outing

There appears to be some very serious outing of marie13 at Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Misconceptions2 going on now. --I am One of Many (talk) 16:29, 26 August 2013 (UTC)[reply]

I am One of Many, I've been harassed by quite a few different people about various matters relating to this SPI case. I'm afraid this means I won't be involving myself in it further, in any way, shape or form. --(ʞɿɐʇ) ɐuɐʞsǝp 19:02, 26 August 2013 (UTC)[reply]
I'm very sorry to hear about the harassment. --I am One of Many (talk) 19:15, 26 August 2013 (UTC)[reply]
I am One of Many, don't worry about it. I'm used to dealing with this sort of thing. However, it does frequently cause me to lose interest in the things that I was doing that cause the harassment. I just felt I, at least, owed you an explanation for why I'm not handling that case. --(ʞɿɐʇ) ɐuɐʞsǝp 11:13, 27 August 2013 (UTC)[reply]

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Any explanation?

[7] Eric Corbett 22:02, 12 September 2013 (UTC)[reply]

I nearly dropped my tablet and hit the revert button accidentally when I was trying to grab on to it. Sorry about that. --(ʞɿɐʇ) ɐuɐʞsǝp 02:11, 13 September 2013 (UTC)[reply]

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Manchester meetup

Hi Deskana, You signed up to the Manchester meetup on 19 October. Harry has strongarmed me into rescheduling it to the Sunday, 20 Oct, due to clashes with other events. Hopefully you can still make it. Cheers, Bazonka (talk) 13:52, 21 September 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Newsflash! The location of the meetup has been moved back to Wetherspoons on Princess Street - the Ducie Arms isn't open on Sundays! Can you believe that?! Bazonka (talk) 17:57, 17 October 2013 (UTC)[reply]

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Reply

Your ping on User talk:Retrolord reminded me: did you receive my email from a few days ago? NW (Talk) 15:58, 11 October 2013 (UTC)[reply]

NW, I did. Sorry for the delay in responding. I've responded now. Thanks for the reminder! --(ʞɿɐʇ) ɐuɐʞsǝp 16:24, 11 October 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Request for comment

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MV Seaman Guard Ohio : Request your participation in the discussion

Request your opinion on my comments regarding the editorial style and info source of content uploaded to MV Seaman Guard Ohio Kindly see the TALK page of the article at Talk:MV_Seaman_Guard_Ohio#Discussion_about_the_article NATO-Legal (talk) 11:52, 18 October 2013 (UTC) (formerly IP 81.240.180.58)[reply]

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Barnstar of Awesome

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Help me to complete my single user login

Hello! I was in the army when globalisation of user logins was in action. I am most active in ruwiki as ru:User:Сидик из ПТУ, but I have made many contribs here too as User:Sidik iz PTU. Now I want attach to my current login those contributions so it needed to rename User:Сидик из ПТУ to User:Сидик из ПТУ (usurped) and User:Sidik iz PTU to User:Сидик из ПТУ. Hope for your help, Сидик из ПТУ (talk) 19:03, 4 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]

OAuth

Hi Deskana,

Is OAuth enabled on en.wp? I came across Special:OAuthListConsumers but couldn't see how I could sign up for any of the applications. I am most interested in Snuggle. I have used it the old-fashioned way but I thought it would be slicker to use OAuth.

I checked out WP:OAuth but it didn't help.

Am I just jumping the gun?

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Sock case ... remember User:Zarbon?

thats right! Upon reading his block history u dealt with this heavy abuser in the past. Check it out, he is under investigation. please, chime in ... Dark Lord Deskana! ActionFigureLover (talk) —Preceding undated comment added 22:03, 15 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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Zarbon's harasser

I was wondering if you had any clue as to the person who has been harassing Zarbon since allegedly 2008 (he directly mentioned you in his taunts). He's decided to pick me as an additional target after a stupid spat on some articles and is now reverting me across the project and warning a user I was in a dispute with a month ago whenever I edit an article (he even unreverted vandalism I reverted 2 weeks ago and informed the other editor of that). I thought I had identified the earliest registered account as Dragonron (talk · contribs) but it seems there's more history to this than Decemer 2013. Do you remember who this might be so as to better coordinate prevention and cleanup?—Ryūlóng (琉竜) 15:50, 31 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]

I think I found the earliest account as Wiki-star (talk · contribs).—Ryūlóng (琉竜) 15:56, 31 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]

I've started up WP:ANI#Wiki-star regarding this user.—Ryūlóng (琉竜) 16:22, 31 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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Help to resolve an issue?

Hello I was wondeirn gif you could provide me with information and advice regarding a small issue. Recently I posted a question on the talk page of Elizabeth II, which was reverted by this user shortly after claiming I was a troll. THis is not true, I was simply asking a question related to why certain factual information had been ommitted from the article pertaining to the Queen's arrest warrants issued by the International Commonlaw Court of Justice for her involvement in a child abuse ring. There are numerous articles relating to the arrest by Googling "Queen ELizabeth arrested".

I went ahead and reverted the question hoping for a more clear answer. This was later reverted by an an administrator who went even further to hide all edits made by me without explaining why she had done so. I went and posted on her talk page, which she removed minutes later without even answering the question.

I can understand if I deliberately change the article, but all i did was ask a question

Could you possibly look into this for me, and clarify by this was done? Thanks in advance

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Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Fairyspit

Regarding you claims on not enough differences on this investigation, if you look at the Archive, you'll see that the master usually makes 2 or 3 socks at a time, always edits Benedict Cumberbatch and there is a sock that was blocked under the name Cluingforlooks, and this new one is just Clueingforlooks with an 'e' added. I don't see how a check user could hurt. LADY LOTUS • TALK 13:41, 13 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]

It seems your case was resolved. To avoid the same situation in future, please provide diffs when filing your next case. --(ʞɿɐʇ) ɐuɐʞsǝp 04:16, 17 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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thanks

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Thank you

Hi, Deskana! It's me, ANNAfoxlover. Quite some years ago, you adopted me in that Adopt-a-User program when I was quite active in Wikipedia. I'm not sure if you remember, but I was quite the annoying user sometimes; being over-obsessed with my autograph page, having a wacky signature, aspiring ignorantly to become an administrator, and sometimes being rude. You adopted me and gave me correction with patience, even in my bizarre fits of weirdness. Sorry for my inappropriate behavior.

Well, over time I matured and learned various things. Many of the lessons that stuck with me came from you, especially those related to being a good and better contributor online. You helped teach me how awesome that simply being a Wikipedia user can be. I apologize for the trouble I caused you back then. And thank you, thank you, for being a great Wikipedia adopter. I'm glad to see you're still doing good for the encyclopedia and Wikimedia. Congratulations on your success! Again, thank you. Blessings. A•N•N•A hi! 04:55, 26 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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