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Picture of the day The Death of Marat is a 1793 painting by Jacques-Louis David depicting the artist's friend and murdered French revolutionary leader, Jean-Paul Marat. It was painted when David was the leading French Neoclassical painter, a Montagnard, and a member of the revolutionary Committee of General Security. Created in the months after Marat's death, the painting shows Marat lying dead in his bath after his murder by Charlotte Corday on 13 July 1793. Art historian T. J. Clark called David's painting the first modernist work for "the way it took the stuff of politics as its material, and did not transmute it".Painting credit: Jacques-Louis David

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Note: Noldoaran welcomed me back all the way on November 21, 2003, but I use {{welcomec}} as my own set of bookmarks. Welcome! Hello Netsnipe! Welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions to this free encyclopedia. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. If you need any help, check out Getting Help below, ask me on my talk page, or place {{helpme}} on your talk page and ask your question there. Below are some useful links to facilitate your involvement. Getting started Wikipedia tutorial • The five pillars of Wikipedia • Getting "adopted" by an experienced user How to: edit a page • upload and use images • start an article Getting help Frequently asked questions • Tips Where to ask questions or make comments Request administrator attention Policies and guidelines Neutral point of view • No original research Verifiability • Reliable sources • Citing sources What Wikipedia is not • Biographies of living persons Simplified Manual of Style • Three-revert rule Copyrights • Policy for non-free content • Image use policy External links • Spam • Vandalism • Sock puppetry Deletion policy • Conflict of interest • Notability User community Build consensus • Resolve disputes Assume good faith • Civility • Etiquette No personal attacks • No legal threats Community Portal • Village pump Signpost • IRC channels • Mailing lists Writing articles Be bold in editing • Develop an article The perfect article • Manual of style Stubs • Categories • Disambiguation Peer review Miscellaneous User name • User pages • Talk pages Clean up: General - Spam - Vandalism Join a WikiProject • Translation Useful templates • Tools • User scripts Please remember to sign your name on talk pages by clicking or using four tildes (~~~~); this will automatically produce your name and the date. Finally, please do your best to always fill in the edit summary field. Happy editing!

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On a personal level

On a personal level Netsnipe, thank you for taking care of Izanbardprince and his vandalizing of articles and my personal page. It's nice to know that such behaviour is watched by those in power. God Bless. -- Imgi12 07:48, December 9, 2006 (UTC)

Reverting.

Thanks for info on reverting. I'm a fairly new user to the wikipedia. But i see that other people in my organization (we have the same ip through nat) are vandalising against airlines. Well thanks anyway.

del rev

An editor has asked for a deletion review of Assburger syndrome. Since you closed the deletion discussion for (or speedy-deleted) this article, you might want to participate in the deletion review. — Random8322007-01-25 16:54 UT C (01/25 11:54 EST)

Patricknoddy

Hi - I'm not sure of the background to the blocking in full, but it seems (from an ANI post (somewhere)), that Patrick was misusing NPWatcher, by adding to CAT:CSD all sorts of articles. It should be noted that Patrick has been approved to use NPWatcher for a few months now, and it was actually the case that an admin removed him from the approvals list when he was blocked. As a further note, it is *impossible* to use NPWatcher if one is not approved - it was the case that Patrick did meet (and probably still does meet) the approval requirements, which themselves are fairly loose. It might be worth your getting in contact with the blocking admin about this issue, as there seems to have been some misunderstanding somewhere along the line. Martinp23 17:57, 11 March 2007 (UTC)

Question re edit.

Hi, I'm curious about your edit to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:76.172.163.54. Why would you note that this address is registered to www.campbell.pvt.k12.ca.us? When you tracert this address it routes to an adelphia network, and has nothing to do with this school. Arin notes this as owned by Road Runner. Thanks. Awr29886 17:19, 12 March 2007 (UTC)

I made a judgement call looking at the editing pattern and noticed that their school website describes themselves as independent and Episcopal. I've noticed that a lot of private schools in the US often do not have RIR allocations. Feel free to shorten the block and remove the tag, but I was counting on getting an email either directly or via unblock-en-l which I subscribe to if I had gotten it wrong. --  Netsnipe  ►  17:26, 12 March 2007 (UTC)

Thanks. I understand. I do think it is likely it is one of our students. I just didn't want the people at these other pages he's also vandalising to think he's doing it from our campus which he isn't. His ip 76.172.163.54 must be his home computer. I don't think I have any ability to adjust that top note though? Perhaps I'm looking in the wrong place? Thank you very much for banning the ip though. His vandalism was becoming troublesome. Awr29886 17:40, 12 March 2007 (UTC)

No worries. On second thought, I've removed the school IP tag and shorten his/her block to 1 week in line with blocks on residential IPs, and yes you are allowed to add or correct tags whenever you feel necessary. See Template:SharedIPEDU and Template:SharedIP for further documentation. --  Netsnipe  ►  17:42, 12 March 2007 (UTC)

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Thank you for second chance

Thanks for allowing me a second chance. I will do my best to follow Wikipedia's guidelines and policies from now on. Ahlicks456 12:25, 13 March 2007 (UTC)

101 Reykjavík

Wondering why you just deleted my links on icelandic film 101 reyk? Maybe remove one or two but there are some useful links there to help imrpove the article ♦ Sir Blofeld ♦ ^{"I've been expecting you"} 15:10, 13 March 2007 (UTC)

I probably got too over eager weeding out non-professional (e.g. blog) reviews from that article among others. Our Wikipedia:External links policy currently only allows links to "professional reviews" (in line with Wikipedia:Attribution which discourages self-published sources) -- otherwise every movie page in the encyclopedia would be flooded with links to every person's and their dog's review. Feel free to revert my removal if you disagree. --  Netsnipe  ►  15:23, 13 March 2007 (UTC)

Name

An editor has revealed a person's real name against their consent and right to privacy. This person knows the rules and had prior knowledge not to do this. This editor does not stop commenting at the Arbcam case involving Fyslee. This is blockworthy. This is a very serious matter. QuackGuru ^TALK 21:55, 14 March 2007 (UTC)

That Mcbob sock

I figured that if I left the sock's first edit you'd know who it was and then remove the rest later. Take care, Flyguy649^talk_contribs 06:07, 15 March 2007 (UTC)

82.109.66.146

If you would care to take a look at my talk page you will see that I was asked to block the IP by the IT administrator in question. If the users of that IP wish to edit then all they have to do is create an account - it's not difficult! But I fail to see why we should tolerate sustained vandalism. By refusing to indefinitely block anonymous IPs we merely send the message that vandalism is fine as long as you do it anonymously, and, personally, I do not believe that is a message we should wish to send. Do you really want to encourage the idiots to use Wikipedia as their own personal playground? Because that's exactly what you're doing by letting them get away with it. -- Necrothesp 01:23, 16 March 2007 (UTC)

Problem with IP 74.109.244.5 and new account

I'm sure you remember vandalism trouble with this user, and it seems to have gotten much worse. They appear to hold a grudge against me because of my frequent reverts of their vandalism to Southwood Secondary School, and reporting them because of this vandalism. This user has indeed created an account in a parody of my own, with only one letter being different. You can compare my User Page with their own here. I realize that this may not be against the rules, but with this account that is so similar to my own they have continued to vandalize SSS, as seen in this edit, which I have since reverted.

I just want information on Wikipedia to be accurate, and since you were able to deal with this user last time, I thought it best to bring to your attention what has transpired. MelicansMatkin 03:08, 16 March 2007 (UTC)

Actually, it's against the Wikipedia:Username policy for someone to register a username similar or parodying that of an established editor. In future, please report all impostors to WP:AIV and they will be blocked on sight. Thanks. --  Netsnipe  ►  03:12, 16 March 2007 (UTC)

Thank you for the help, and the clarification. :) I'll be sure to do that in future. MelicansMatkin 03:20, 16 March 2007 (UTC)

Question from 218.186.9.5

Why u ban me! ********* —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 218.186.9.5 (talk • contribs) 04:19, March 16, 2007 (UTC)

First of all, whose ban are you referring to? I block dozens of accounts and IP addresses each day. Please be more specific if you want an answer. --  Netsnipe  ►  04:25, 16 March 2007 (UTC)

Template:Welcomeg

I can see why you put quotes round "perfect" but it doesn't have these anywhere on Wikipedia:The perfect article, so I think it would be better to keep the template consistent with the guideline? Tyrenius 06:02, 16 March 2007 (UTC)

DON'T PANIC!

Would you mind making a category of people who want Wikipedia to be Earth's version of Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (albeit in a more acceptable manner)? Or else, a category of wikipedians who are fans of Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy? Zuracech lordum 11:31, 16 March 2007 (UTC)

Admin

Can I be an administrator? So I can delete articles, block users, protect/unprotect pages and all that? --BlakeCS 23:40, 16 March 2007 (UTC)

Thanks

Hi Netsnipe. Thanks for taking care of the User talk:Cremepuff222 situation. I'll surely have a stern talk with him. Xiner (talk, email) 12:40, 17 March 2007 (UTC)

Sorry, I'm just going by what I see.

I've seen people with slightly shorter names get banned for their name. If an admin says it's okay, that's all that matters; I'm just following what I consider procedure. You have to admit, it is fairly long. And I admit, I only took a cursory look at his history, so that's my fault. HalfShadow 17:42, 17 March 2007 (UTC)

Spammy usernames

Moving the conversation here for your convenience (I imagine your watchlist is longer than mine) - I have no intention to be contentious, I was just hoping (for my edification) to find out which of my WP:AIV reports you felt were disruptive, besides the User:BlueMoonCandles report you objected to.

I should say I've been spending most of my Wikitime lately with WP:WPSPAM, and the spamming problem seems to get larger each day; it's probably become larger now than the number of editors dedicated to fighting it can deal with - even with the use of monobook scripts (which lead to complaints of bot-like edits) and use of actual bots (which leads to other complaints.

I decided to try patrolling new usernames for obvious business and product names, because, in my experience so far, the vast majority of these are spammers. The idea is to get to them before they spam, and prevent having to expend resources on cleaning up after them later. WP:U is pretty clear that company and product names are strongly discouraged, and a user creating an account is informed of that policy right from the beginning. In my defense, I should point out that a very high percentage (on the order of 90-95%) of these usernames I reported to WP:AIV were blocked on site by a variety of admins. Some were referred to WP:RFCN, where, in turn, a large majority were disallowed by consensus. (See the archive for the past few days.) So I hope you see where I arrived at the assumption (right or wrong) that there is broad admin and community consensus to block obviously promotional usernames on sight.

No rush on the reply...I don't have any hard feelings but it smarts to be called disruptive when you spend a lot of effort trying to be one of the good guys. RJASE1 ^Talk 19:52, 17 March 2007 (UTC)

Ockenbock's back

I reported Mister Tuba Face (talk · contribs · logs) to AIV for this edit [1], purporting to be a sock of Ockenbok (or however it's spelled). Though you'd want to know. Flyguy649^talk_contribs 03:32, 18 March 2007 (UTC)

Actually he got blocked before I got there, but the point's the same... Flyguy649^talk_contribs 03:35, 18 March 2007 (UTC)

66.167.214.211

Actually I don't think he is revert warring at all. It doesn't look much of a war. Theresa Knott | Taste the Korn 18:30, 18 March 2007 (UTC)

My bad. Thanks for pointing that out to me. I just looked at his/her first and last diffs and noted that the "Controversy" section had been blanked in both cases and assumed it was a 3RR violation in progress. --  Netsnipe  ►  18:36, 18 March 2007 (UTC)

sorry

$Imust'vebeeneffectdbytheblockontheplaceiwasat.sorryforwastinurtime.~~~~$