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Regarding Apparent Vandalism

Hi, Atrain, Regarding a recent message I just noticed regarding some apparent vandalism on the wiki page for "Chef". I can confidently say that the vandalism did NOT come from my end and the IP has either been spoofed, or by chance somebody has had my IP before and now I've been allocated it. More proof of this is the vandalism, which I noticed was the phrase added to the end of a paragraph, "i love your mom" - I'm Australian, I don't spell that word, short for mother, with an 'o'. Australians spell it with a 'u', "mum".

Just wanting to clear things up, I see wiki vandalism as just childish behaviour and I don't condone it at all. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 58.107.208.236 (talk) 13:02, 16 May 2007 (UTC).[reply]

Thanks for your concern, but don't worry. IP vandalism is dealt with on a short-term case-by-case basis. If everything is working properly, administrators will assume good faith and give IP addresses a blank slate when they come across vandalism from them. We know that the vast majority of anonymous IP edits are constructive ones. Cheers, A Train^talk 04:20, 22 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

WP:ANI report

I would like to draw attention to Sc400 (talk · contribs) being the same person Sc4900 (talk · contribs). I have posted to ANI, as before.

Cross-post:

I had previously pointed out the edits of Sc4900 (talk · contribs) to ANI. Editor was subsequently blocked.

Sc400 (talk · contribs) is no doubt the same
60.241.54.145 (talk · contribs) is also the IP used, judging from continous insertion of the same sort of articles related to Sashank etc

Clearly, this editor is trying to disrupt Wikipedia by inserting fictional creations and unsourced material. Please stop this vandal.

You had blocked him last time, so I thought I'd drop you a note as well. Regards, xC | ☎ 07:51, 28 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Sorry, din't see you were on break. The matter was handled at ANI. Thanks anyhow, happy editing!xC | ☎ 10:01, 28 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Redirection

Hi A Train. An article that you closed as no consensus has become a redirect to a section. For a redirect, it has a long talk page talk pages ;-) Regards, ☻ Fred|☝ discussion|✍ contributions 20:03, 13 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

The Working Man's Barnstar

		The Working Man's Barnstar
		I'm awarding you this "Working" barnstar for your tireless and endless work on the more laborious or repetivie wikipedia tasks. We need more like you! Wikidudeman ^(talk) 05:01, 20 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Unsolicited advice

I have no desire to "help" E. I haven't voted to support him because I haven't even reviewed the candidate yet, I replied to the opposes because their reasons were clearly invalid. I don't have any particular interest in getting E the mop, but, as someone who likes Wikipedia, I try to encourage people to use more common sense in their votes on RfA. Do I really need to personally like someone to want his RfA not to be opposed for ridiculous reasons? --Rory096 05:46, 8 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

With all due respect, I don't think you understood the thrust of my comment. Let me put it another way: you're commenting because you feel that the opposers are incorrect in their opposition. If that is your aim, then you're going to find that your m.o. will just make people annoyed with you, and they will entrench themselves in their rationale. It's much easier to change minds with diplomacy than it is with sarcasm. A Train^talk 05:49, 8 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

To the contrary, it's nearly impossible to change people's minds, especially when their viewpoint is somewhat defensible, but wrong, and other are opposing with them. My goal is to make it clear to others how silly these opposes are, to prevent people from piling on opposes with the same reasoning. --Rory096 05:54, 8 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I don't think you're going to succeed, but at this point I'm repeating myself. A Train^talk 06:04, 8 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Welcome back

Good to see you're back on here - I was just about to email you to see what the problem was! Ryan Postlethwaite 18:25, 8 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

It's nice to be back, Ryno, and to see that you're still here, too. No problem, just lots of stuff taking precedence over WP: we moved apartments, I started a new job, etc. etc. How have you been? Any remarkable incidents or developments in the past couple of months that I should read about? A Train^talk 19:50, 8 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Admin miscount at User talk:Rory096

My apologies, no offence intended. --Steve _(Stephen)^talk 05:34, 11 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

None taken whatsoever. A Train^talk 13:38, 11 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Hmm

I'm not sure who this is, but HFOA isn't new. Definitely knows his way around ANI. Flyguy649 ^talk _contribs 21:09, 11 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I looked over the contribs and I totally agree, s/he's definitely not a real noob. Just based on the writing style, I have an inkling as to who it might be. A Train^talk 21:14, 11 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

RE User Haizum

I have apologized and been punished by being blocked by you for three hours, which was a punishment I deserved for being childish enouigh to fued with Haizum after being baited about being a Lesbian. He is now watching me and adding comments and general nasty items to my contributions such as Billie Jean King. This is not fair and I feel as if I am being stalked in WIkipedia world. HE appears to have a past of general Trolling and fueding with others. Please tell him TRUCE GO AWAY I do not wish to deal with Haizum anymoreCr8tiv 17:52, 16 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Cr8tiv, I'm sorry that you're feeling stressed out. Before I get into anything else, let me clarify that your 3 hour block last week was *not* intended as a punishment. Blocks on Wikipedia are not punitive, and I was only blocking you to give you a chance to walk away and cool down for a bit.

As for Haizum, I looked through his contributions and the only thing that I can find meeting your description was a perfectly civil contribution to Talk:Billie Jean King, recommending that the trivia section be removed. Wikipedia policy on trivia sections is pretty clear; they are to be avoided whenever possible as they tend not to be encyclopedic. If you feel like Haizum is singling you out for criticism, talk directly to him on his talk page. If it persists, come talk with me again.

I understand that you might not be anxious to "be around" Haizum, but we all have to work together here. Thanks for your contributions, A Train^talk 18:42, 17 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Fair enough, but ask yourself, why would a man whose first language is plainly not English (his inflections and word choice are mechanical and have a Borat "now I speak English good like fellow American) style and Mr. Haizum history of Wiki edits are mostly political have not really involved American Sports. Suddenly a day after our Fued he takes an interest in Women's Tennis? Cr8tiv 20:06, 17 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]