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Welcome to Eagle's Archives!

I respond to all comments here, as it becomes difficult to keep up with the volume otherwise; if I believe immediate notice is necessary, I may copy the response to your talk page.

I am an admin on both the english wikipedia (here) and on the meta wiki.'

Be sure your request belongs here; most routine requests dealing with permissions (admin, bureaucrat, checkuser stuff) should go to a noticeboard rather than an individual talk page. Disputes between editors, especially content disputes, belong in formal dispute resolution, not here; if you raise them here, I'm just going to say "I don't get involved" and send you to dispute resolution, so save time and head there now.

I archive obsessively, often several times a day; if you do not see a comment you left here, it has probably been archived, please look in my archives. Users are welcome to bring archived discussions back if they have additional comments.

If you left a comment and didn't get a response from me, ninety-nine times out of one hundred, I was busy and forgot to answer; poke me, and I'll be sure to do it. However, if you left a comment that you expected would elicit an angry response, and instead received no response, then I probably didn't forget, I just didn't respond. I reserve the right to archive personal attacks, incivility, or canvassing separately and immediately. Severe instances may simply be deleted.

Others are encouraged to help out and respond to posts here. Plenty of angry and clueless posts find their way here, and to my email; in the vast majority, I find that the writer has misunderstood some difficult aspect of Wikipedia. Though I may seem to have everything under control, I appreciate having others help out and back me up.

I am a VandalProof moderator. If you have problems with VandalProof, please ask.

If you came here because I removed a link that you posted onto Wikipedia. Please read and understand this first.

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My Talk Page

Hi. Thanks for your input. (1) I am curious ... what makes you think I am referring to Real96? Also, (2) The issue is not how to archive a page. I have asked repeatedly -- still with no answers -- as to WHY one is not supposed to delete old "Help Me" messages. I still do not know the answer to that question, though I have asked it many times. And, after refusing to answer my simple (yet reasonable) question, a user takes the affirmative steps to revert edits on my Talk Page, without explanation? What is THAT all about? How about giving a newcomer some simple answers? Wiki is hardly welcoming ... and is starting to seem like a bunch of elitist snobs. How about some help when a newcomer asks? I am apalled by the behavior of some here. If you would like, please reply to my questions. If not, it would be par for the course that my actual questions do NOT get answered. Thanks. I'd appreciate any input. (JosephASpadaro 02:31, 30 April 2007 (UTC))[reply]


Hello again. I see that you posted some comments on my Talk Page. Thank you for getting back to me. I appreciate that. I am very busy tonight, and unable to (adequately) reply to you. So, I will reply (substantively) tomorrow. Thanks a lot. Take care. (JosephASpadaro 03:48, 30 April 2007 (UTC))[reply]


Hi again. It is now "tomorrow" and, as I said, I would get back to you. Thanks for your replies. You seem to be one of the few on Wiki who is actually out there to be helpful and to answer questions. Of which I have many. Let's do them one at a time. I find it easier to communicate that way. So, first ... you asked about wiki projects. My interest is in Academy Awards, right now. I just signed up for their Project Group. What do have in lines of that category for a project? Please let me know. Then, my questions will go from there. Thanks! (JosephASpadaro 14:23, 30 April 2007 (UTC))[reply]
Ok, what I would do is the following join Wikipedia:WikiProject Academy Awards, which I see you already have done. I don't know what you mean by category, but if I were you I would get involved with improving articles related to that wikiproject, just pick one of the articles at Category:WikiProject_Academy_Awards. You might also be interested in talking to some of the other members for ideas on how to improve articles :) —— Eagle101 Need help? 16:18, 30 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]


OK, thanks. That clears up Question #1. I already did join the Academy Awards project, as you noticed. Is there anyone "in charge" of that Project? What I meant by "category" was this: You asked if there were any projects that I am interested in contributing to Wiki. And, I used the word "category" generically to mean that "Yes, the category / topic that interests me is Academy Awards." I assumed that you had a list of projects to "dispense" when you kept asking me what projects I am interested in. On to Question #2. Am I or am I not "allowed" to delete old "HELP ME" messages from my Talk Page? Thank you. (JosephASpadaro 17:09, 30 April 2007 (UTC))[reply]
Ah ok, I don't really have a list to dispense, but you can see the following:
All the above are related to the acedemy awards. As far as deleting old helpme messages, there is no "law" against it, though I personally would advise you to archive your talk page, and to archive those with the rest of your (hopefully) interesting dialog that you will accumulate whilist editing wikipedia. Most wikipedians don't delete things, they just archive them into subpages. So short answer, no its not "illegal" or anything :), but its probably a better idea to just archive it, in any case its all in your talk page history. (see the "history" tab). If you have any more questions just go ahead and ask them all in a bunch, and I'll give you a reply to them. —— Eagle101 Need help? 17:24, 30 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]
P.S. There really is nobody in charge of much of anything on wikipedia, just contact a few of the folks that are a member of that project, one or two of them will have an idea of where you can help out :).
Thanks for the reply. I will check out those Project Pages. On to my next question. Why would anyone want to save old "Help Me" notices? Either on their Talk Page or in an archive? Once I ask a question, and someone answers it for me, the issue is resolved (in my mind). So, why would I (or anyone else) want to save that old clutter and keep it around? Furthermore, if all of that old stuff is already saved in the history tabs, why -- again -- would anyone want or need to affirmatively save or archive it? Why not just delete it and clear up all the old, unnecessary clutter from my Talk Page? Thanks. (JosephASpadaro 06:07, 1 May 2007 (UTC))[reply]
Quite frankly, it's been a while. And I still have not heard back from you. You have not replied to my message. I do see from your user Talk Page that you have been on line and on Wikipedia, as you have responded to others on your discussion page. Others who have contacted you after I did, that is. Please let me know if you plan to continue helping me -- and responding to me -- or if I should move on to another Wikipedian for help with my questions. Thanks. (JosephASpadaro 01:03, 3 May 2007 (UTC))[reply]

Its your choice to archive or not, see this. :) I'd recommend it, but you really don't have to. —— Eagle101 Need help? 17:35, 3 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks. To be honest, you did not really answer my question. But, thanks anyway. Take care! (JosephASpadaro 01:44, 4 May 2007 (UTC))[reply]

I don't know what you are asking, all I will say is there is no rule that forces you to archive anything, but its custom to do so. :) —— Eagle101 Need help? 01:56, 4 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Hemoglobin article

Thanks for your help and swift edit. I think you've provided the solution to our problems. And for this I salute you! Mmoneypenny 20:38, 30 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Random arbitrary section breaks

I agree that they make the noticeboard easier to edit, especially on a slow connection, but I've been thinking extra section breaks might actually discourage discussions from reaching a conclusion, like people subconsciously assume there is a posting quota to be filled. Maybe. Of course, maybe you ought to take everything I say with a gram of salt. — CharlotteWebb 07:56, 1 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Mmmm it might be a problem, but I think easier to edit trumps in such a case. :) —— Eagle101 Need help? 08:17, 1 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

OTRS

Just in case you aren't aware, a policy was recently implemented by the Wikimedia Foundation, regarding access to nonpublic data (see [1]) Please note if you do not comply with these rules you should remove yourself from OTRS volunteering where your name is listed. Otherwise, please ignore this message :) Kind regards, Majorly (hot!) 18:09, 1 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

207.207.127.254

207.207.127.254 is still vandalizing his own talk page (check out this edit). Was the semi-protection you enabled really that short-lived? Xerxesnine 16:55, 2 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I re-protected it. —— Eagle101 Need help? 22:16, 2 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Please unprotect my talk page. I wasn't aware that even editing other people's comments was illegal, especially since looking at WP:Talk, it clearly states:

"Editing others' comments (except on your own user talk page) is generally not allowed." I took this to mean that I could edit others' comments on my own talk page. I am sorry if I am in violation: it simply seemed to state clearly that I was allowed to do this. If it is in fact illegal, then I won't do it anymore, but please check with the rules before banning me. -N

I made it quite clear to this user that this is an IP address talk page, and that this IP address is from a potentially shared IP pool at a university. So this talk page is not "his" to modify anyways. I also suggested repeatedly that he register a username if he wants a talk page that is not shared, but he continues to claim that this shared IP talk page is his own, to do with whatever he wishes. ATren 01:06, 3 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, he made his opinion clear after I committed this 'transgression' Note that ATren seems to enjoy following me around, causing trouble and generally harassing me. I have asked him to stop on numerous occassions. This IP isn't shared, and is in fact tied to this computer. Attempts to edit this information on the talk page, however, have been met with threats and disdain.

Editing other people's comments very superficially (i.e., formatting) is generally allowed. Changing words, however, is not allowed ever, except in very obvious cases. It's just common sense; otherwise, I could make it look like you said that you knew what you were doing was wrong but you did it anyway. And educational computers are usually used by multiple people; hence, they're usually shared. Veinor (talk to me) 01:48, 4 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

HD DVD rubbish

At present the spam filter means it is not possible to edit Wikipedia:Protected titles/May 2007/List as an whole, only in sections and the Symbols section cannot be edited all. May I request that you transfer the HD DVD key stuff to a separate list? Please include this one. -- RHaworth 14:48, 3 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Err, what do you mean? what is hitting? —— Eagle101 Need help? 17:36, 3 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]
I imagine RHaworth wants "09 F9 11 02...C0" off the spam blacklist, since it is causing a problem with Wikipedia:Protected titles. Of course, an en admin could do this by using the whitelist, so... Prodego talk 01:47, 4 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Except that they used $wgSpamRegex to set this in the database, so actually only a developer can do anything now. Prodego talk 01:58, 4 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

This string was never ever on the meta spam blacklist :) Any block is developer implented. —— Eagle101 Need help? 02:03, 4 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Yea, I spent quite a bit of time trying to figure that out. I should have just read the talk page, which I did right after I thought of wgSpam... :) Prodego talk 02:07, 4 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]
No worries, you are not the first person to think that th != 1e list can block text. —— Eagle101 Need help? 02:10, 4 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Gosh. I thought I was up on Wiki jargon but I seem to have wandered into a corner where they speak a different language! I will repeat my request more carefully: I attempt an whole-page edit of Wikipedia:Protected titles/May 2007/List. When I try to save the edits, I get a message "The spam filter blocked your page save …".

Can you please move the items which are causing this spam filter block out to a separate list so that mere admins can use the list to create other, "routine" blocks? -- RHaworth 18:37, 4 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

There are no items that are causing this block on the spam blacklist. This was done by a developer. —— Eagle101 Need help? 19:16, 5 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

ArbCom with regards to WP:CN

Since that section has gotten rather cluttered, I just wanted to copy the ArbCom response to User:Gordon Watts who had received a topic ban from WP:CN on articles relating to Terry Schiavo.

From: [2]


  • Decline; I see no substantial reason to alter the community ban here. Kirill Lokshin 03:56, 26 February 2007 (UTC)
  • Decline. The system appears to be working. --jpgordon∇∆∇∆ 07:12, 26 February 2007 (UTC)
  • Decline; and support community sanctions. FloNight 20:57, 26 February 2007 (UTC)
  • Decline and endorse both the specific community sanctions, and the right of the community to do so. Essjay (Talk) 00:49, 27 February 2007 (UTC)
  • Decline; Essjay speaks my mind. The Uninvited Co., Inc. 18:29, 27 February 2007 (UTC)

Userboxes

Can you make me a header? With my talk, user,Sandbox, amd autograph page links to it please? Wikiman53 t a 20:28, 5 May 2007 (UTC) PS: Respond on my talk. Wikiman53 t a [reply]

Um... I don't quite get what you are asking :) On a side note, could you modify your sig so it has a link to your talk page? Thanks :) (again I'd appreciate it if you replied back on my talk page). —— Eagle101 Need help? 20:55, 5 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Kreis pages and linkspam concerns

Please see the discussions at the Kreis Wongrowitz article talk page my talk page and re-evaluate. I could care less about the links to my site (well, not enough to fight about it, anyway), but *do* care a lot about some several thousands of people who I know would want to have this data, this convenient. Your choices are: ignore their needs, create tens of thousands (there were some 8000 villages in Posen alone, and about at least 500 church districts in two faiths, civil reg. districts, etc. etc.) of replacement arcticles in WikiPedia, or revert things back to the way they were. You might consider getting some feedback from the Historical States Project itself. btw, by reverting back, the articles are now in another state of complaint, that is: not enough info. I'm so tired of fighting for the audience, against the editors, I'm about ready to mark every article in the project for deletion and let them die. Bwood 22:36, 5 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I don't see any reason why you can't put that information on wikipedia, provided that you had some reliable sources, with decent citations. :) —— Eagle101 Need help? 22:40, 5 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

BCbot

can you unblock it as I need to run some other tasks. (I will not be tagging ORFU until the issues are resolved) Betacommand (talk • contribs • Bot) 00:01, 6 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

sure. —— Eagle101 Need help? 00:09, 6 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

WP:RFBOT

Your recent bot approvals request has been speedily approved. Please see the request page for details. ST47Talk 02:13, 6 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

User:Primoris Sanctus Ordo Of Sanctus Omnimodus Mens

I left a message on his talk page here. Blueboy96 05:05, 6 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

User:Jfkjr

Thats not a username violation. I'd suggest that if you suspect sockpuppetry that you request a checkuser to look into the issue. See our requests for checkuser :) Cheers! —— Eagle101 Need help? 05:00, 6 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

You don't feel that it "Match[es] the name of a well-known living or recently deceased person"? Frise 15:38, 6 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]
What name would it match? —— Eagle101 Need help? 16:54, 6 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Jfk_jr, a very common way of referring to the recently deceased person whose article he's editing. "John Fitzgerald Kennedy, Jr. (November 25, 1960 – July 16, 1999), often referred to as John F. Kennedy, Jr., JFK Jr., John Jr. or John-John..." Frise 17:07, 6 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Note also the first Google results for "jfkjr" [3]. Those initials are as popular as his name, similar to his father. Frise 17:30, 6 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

The Novels WikiProject Newsletter: Issue XII - May 2007

The May 2007 issue of the Novels WikiProject newsletter has been published. You may read the newsletter, change the format in which future issues will be delivered to you, or unsubscribe from this notification by following the link. Thank you.

This is an automated delivery by grafikbot 16:35, 6 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

User:RMc

You blocked this user once before for repeated personal attacks and edit warring. Lately I've been having the same problem with him.

Since you are familiar with this user from before, can you look it over and take any action you consider appropriate? Had it just been his first post I would have let it go, but it seems to me that this guy's oppositional tendencies are going to be increasingly at odds with community values if he is allowed to continue as he has been. He should be strongly encouraged to change his ways or reconsider his future involvement with the project. Daniel Case 17:13, 6 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Advice for mediator

Do you have any advice to give to a new mediator? -- Jac roe 20:02, 6 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

what's with the Gnome bot?

Hi, I noticed the Gnomebot keeps deleting my entire discussion page, and you keep reverting it. What gives? Abebenjoe 20:32, 6 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

its fixed —— Eagle101 Need help? 20:37, 6 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

WP:RFBOT

Your recent bot approvals request has been approved. Please see the request page for details. ST47Talk 20:35, 6 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Gnome bot

Your "fair use" bot is removing public domain images. Fix it, and fix the pages where it screwed up. Thanks. SchmuckyTheCat 22:23, 6 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Gnome bot

Please see the not that I left at Gnome. Thank you, J Are you green? 01:19, 7 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Gnome-bot

you/your gnome bot messed with a page i am currently working on, i reverted the pages to what they were at prior to you editing them, please don't mess with my test pages:) thanks, Ancientanubis, talk 01:29, 7 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Main Page

What was that? -- tariqabjotu 01:37, 7 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Main Page

Not sure why, but you deleted the main page ~ Anthony 01:37, 7 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

dunno some admin messed with it, I thought I had to delete to restore all the revisions. Then my browser crashed. —— Eagle101 Need help? 01:38, 7 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Let me clarify I thought some admin deleted it and replaced it with nonsense, so I was going to delete his stuff, and put the normal page back up, in the process my browser crashed.
Eagle was responding to another admin deleting the main page, he is not going nuts. HighInBC(Need help? Ask me) 01:42, 7 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Well you earned a mention on my list ;-). NoSeptember 05:50, 7 May 2007 (UTC)
    • Oh fun, though you might want to note at the time I deleted the page, all that was displaying was gibberish. I just took the wrong action to restore. I was thinking history merge, delete and restore all revisions. At the time I did not think of a simple "click history, click undelete deleted revisions". That was my error, things were going very fast. —— Eagle101 Need help? 06:11, 7 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]
      • When the signpost article gets written I will include a link, as I try to do with all items on that page to add context to events. Plus you can tweak it as you like (just no verbiage). NoSeptember 06:31, 7 May 2007 (UTC)

I'm just dying of curiosity

Why did you block User:MilkDrinker? Placeholder account 02:01, 7 May 2007 (UTC) I've unblocked the account, I don't recall why I blocked that as a username block. sorry for any confusion. —— Eagle101 Need help? 02:03, 7 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Vandalproof

Hi there, I have a problem running Vandalproof. It keeps telling me that the userlist is corrupt and that I should contact a moderator to have it repaired. Please help. And for the record I am running on 1.36 --ROASTYTOAST 21:34, 7 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Metropolis (English magazine in Japan)/Crisscross Merger proposal

Talk:Crisscross#Merger_proposal. There is currently a discussion whether the articles Crisscross and Metropolis should be merged. As a contributor to one or both of these articles, your input would be valued. Heatedissuepuppet 11:18, 8 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Thank You For Your Action

Thank you for repairing and protecting Adolf Hitler from page move vandalism. Your quick actions are greatly appreciated. Xtreme racer 01:40, 9 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Barnstar

The Original Barnstar
I, Ryan Postlethwaite, award you this barnstar for all your work helping to get Wikipedia:Usernames for administrator attention up and running. Ryan Postlethwaite 11:38, 9 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Re: Almost Perfect (Even Stevens)

I didn't upload the image. I simply wrote the article so the image could be saved, and tagged it as a non-orphan. ---- DanTD 20:45, 11 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Did you read what Peregrinefisher wrote about it? ---- DanTD 21:06, 11 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

MedCab cases

Please review your open cases and close any that are inactive. --McClerk 05:21, 12 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Re: WP:RM bot

The only reply to my suggestion for a bot was made here by User:Stemonitis, who is one of the most frequent closing admins there. Barely anyone else seemed interested in that whole section to revamp the WP:RM instructions and process, although it was partly in response to a bigger concern that WP:RM is too bureaucratic. I've started a section here to seek further consensus.

Yes, daily at 0:00 UTC please. All that needs to be inserted is

==[[{{CURRENTDAY}} {{CURRENTMONTHNAME}}]] [[{{CURRENTYEAR}}]]==

preferably with an empty line above it, like in this edit, assuming the ==[[11 May]] [[2007]]== below that would already have an empty line above it (from the bot edit made the previous day). As long as there is 1 empty line between each date section, just so the closers can find them easier to move to the contested section.

Optionally, move <!--- Please place new requests at the TOP of the list --> up from the line following the next section title, to the line under this new section title. But this second part isn't very necessary assuming people can notice the directions higher up the page. Thanks. –Pomte 05:45, 12 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Right, they should be substituted. –Pomte 05:52, 12 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]
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