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User:Orijentolog's block evasion

Hi, I noticed you blocked Orijentolog (talk · contribs · logs · block log) for two week for block evasion. He appears to still be evading your two week block, and edit-warring. The edit summaries are also as nasty as ever. See 93.142.156.45 (talk · contribs · logs · block log) and 161.53.35.105 (talk · contribs · logs · block log). Jayjg ^(talk) 03:07, 29 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Another definite case: 94.253.243.58 (talk · contribs · logs · block log) (same type of edit, same geographical region). Cheers, Ynhockey ^(Talk) 01:27, 12 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

~~And also 93.142.157.143 (talk · contribs · logs · block log). Jalapenos do exist (talk) 14:08, 12 October 2009 (UTC)~~ Never mind, already blocked. Jalapenos do exist (talk) 14:11, 12 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Hi

It is very likely that User:Paradoxic is also the sockpuppet of user:Orijentolog--WIMYV? (talk) 17:57, 29 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Please help me out by filing a WP:SPI with a request for Checkuser. Be sure to include these users in the report. Let me know if you need help. Thanks. Toddst1 (talk) 14:04, 30 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Done.-WIMYV? (talk) 17:46, 30 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Hateful attacks from banned User:Orijentolog

Please see : [1] I imagine that it is another sockpuppet of Orijentolog (talk · contribs · logs · block log). What can be done about this? ShamWow (talk) 00:24, 30 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Two comments:

Please don't re-post hateful crap like that. A simple diff would have been fine.
I've issued a rangeblock on 93.142.144.0/20 that seems to be the IP range used by Orijentolog . Please let me know if this nonsense continues from other addresses.

Toddst1 (talk) 13:57, 30 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Understood. Much appreciated.ShamWow (talk) 15:08, 30 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

user: Hotel4500

Sorry about the lack of proper user name formatting, but this person has has about 6 different names, and now is redirecting a bunch of pages to his user page about math (?!?). One of the redirects is Michael Jackson's Children for you to check out. Weird stuff - thought you might want to check this one out. Thank you, Todd! Triste Tierra (cannot log in at work) 24.176.191.234 (talk) 19:00, 1 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Todd - You are super fast and super good. Thank you very much. Trista 24.176.191.234 (talk) 19:23, 1 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

And you are kind. Thanks. Toddst1 (talk) 19:41, 1 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Hotel4500 is at it again. If you have time, you may want to check his edits from late yesterday and today to see what he has vandalised now. Thanks again! Trista 24.176.191.234 (talk) 16:24, 2 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Banhammered. Toddst1 (talk) 20:43, 7 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Question

I just have to ask because I can't figure it out: what did you mean by "over-rotation" here?

That you were a bit too suspicious of a newby that seemed too knowledgable. Big difference from WP:Bite. Feel free to change the wording if you find it objectionable. Toddst1 (talk) 04:17, 2 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I have no idea if I find it objectionable. I guess now I need to know what it's a reference to; I'm unfamiliar with the phrase. DKqwerty (talk) 04:20, 2 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Also, sorry for not signing my last post; BIG faux pas.

You could do a heck of a lot worse. I knew what it was referring to and who you were. (intentionally unsigned)

Sorry, if you could just tell me the origin of the phrase, I'll leave you alone. Thanks. DKqwerty (talk) 04:55, 2 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

¿Seriously? I just want an answer please. Pretty please? DKqwerty (talk) 15:06, 2 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Look at the top of the page. He's on a semi-Wikibreak. He probably hasn't seen your post yet. --Thejadefalcon^{Sing your song}_{The bird's seeds} 16:21, 2 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Yep. That's it - work is busy these days - not much wikitime. I'm not sure where the term comes from, but it's a rather common term in my circles. I'm guessing it originates from a sports reference regarding making some type of rotational movement that is too exaggerated (skiing?), but is frequently used to describe a bit too much reaction. Hope that helps. Toddst1 (talk) 20:40, 7 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Amberwhite/Jonaslover78: BLP violations at Drake Bell

I wasn't sure if your warning to Jonaslover78 was based on my ANI report or not. In case it wasn't, you might want to look at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Administrators%27_noticeboard/Incidents#Amberwhite.2FJonaslover78:_BLP_violations_at_Drake_Bell .—Kww(talk) 04:15, 2 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Yeah, I read the ANI bit and thought a warning might suffice. While the info is a bit personal, it's not defamatory as I read it. Am I missing something? Toddst1 (talk) 04:19, 2 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Claiming to be someone's real-life girlfriend without a source is about as BLP violating as it gets. I can only imagine the flak I would get from my wife should an "Amber White" proclaim herself as my girlfriend all over the internet. The repeat of the BLP violation by Amberwhite after the final warning on her talk page deserves a response as well.—Kww(talk) 04:23, 2 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Good point. Mine would probably have a few things to say too. Toddst1 (talk) 04:24, 2 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

How about Amberwhite (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log)? I can just edit the user page if you think deletion is too extreme, but I can't do much about a block.—Kww(talk) 04:33, 2 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Boffo aces! Your tenacity is remarkable. I'd really like to have you watching after me! You need to be an admin. Toddst1 (talk) 04:39, 2 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I contemplate it now and then, but WP:Requests for adminship/Kww was pretty painful, and in some ways, WP:Requests for adminship/Kww 2 was worse.—Kww(talk) 04:53, 2 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Yeah, I'd hate to go through the process now. See WP:NOTNAS Toddst1 (talk) 13:49, 2 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks!

For your protection. Seem to have drawn fire from agressive vandals. Thanks again! Jusdafax 04:57, 2 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

ANI discussion

Since you added the ANI discussion notice in a separate section, I did want to let you know that I had already left it in the comment thread above: [2]. Are we generally supposed to make a separate section for these? I was under the assumption that a notice was a notice. I just want to do this correctly, so thanks for any clarification! --13² 13:27, 2 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Looks like you had it covered already. Toddst1 (talk) 13:28, 2 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

All right, thanks! --13² 13:40, 2 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

RAMEL CARTER

I hope all is well with you.

My name is Chantal Borgella of C. Borgella Public Relations. I represent Jay-Z's nephew Ramel Carter.

You deleted my page because you said it was plagiarized from his Myspace page. You have threatened to block me. This is becoming VERY VERY frustrating. If you Google Ramel's name, you would see that he has a MAJOR buzz right now due to his release of his album this past Tuesday.

How do I get it approved?

Chantal9186 (talk) 08:40, 3 October 2009 (UTC) October 3, 2009[reply]

See WP:Advert. We have no place for your promotion here on Wikipedia. Please find another website to promote your client. Toddst1 (talk) 17:49, 6 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

The Admin's Barnstar

		The Admin's Barnstar
		Awarded to Toddst1 for help with a nasty situation that only an alert admin could fix. Many Thanks! Jusdafax 16:21, 3 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Admin's advice sought

In regard to recent disagreements as to the nature of vandalism, I'd appreciate your comments on this:

Some recent vandalism to J. A. Chatwin (a Victorian architect).

The editor (Special:contributions/82.36.89.155 / talk) has a track record of recent vandalism, but it's an anon so hard to tell for sure that it's the same person.

Their recent edit looks broadly good (can't think why he was described as using the gothic style rather than classical in the first place), but the claim that Julius Alfred also went by the name "Timmy" rang a few alarm bells. I suspect that it's a more subtle vandal than usual, hiding a hoax wrapped up in a contribution. Would you happen to know whether they did use this name? The editor has now cited a book ref that surely describes the subject, but it's not a book I have on the shelf, so it's impractical to check that the ref supports the cite.

Any comment welcome. Andy Dingley (talk) 13:00, 6 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Replied on ANI and User talk:82.36.89.155. Toddst1 (talk) 17:48, 6 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for that 8-) Andy Dingley (talk) 19:30, 6 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

97.106.41.108 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · page moves · block user · block log) Block Evasion

Has reappeared under 72.186.97.162 (talk · contribs) and 70.126.138.177 (talk · contribs) same edit comments for Michael Scofield and avoiding discussion page. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 149.254.218.41 (talk) 17:58, 7 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Well, that block was for 55 hours in June - long since expired, so it's not block evasion. However, there are some troubling edits there. Toddst1 (talk) 20:36, 7 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Apologies, as a normal user, I am not privy to the ban length and mistakenly believed it was still in force by the notification remaining on the talk page. His IP address has changed again today and now appears purely dynamic. 149.254.218.41 (talk) 21:12, 7 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Smallville pages

Could you protect Smallville (season 1), Smallville (season 2), Smallville (season 3), and Smallville (season 5) as well? Those pages were involved as well. The IP in question just thought the links were dumb, but a different user (I assume a different one) claims the links are spam simply because they appear on five pages. I have tried to explain that WP:SPAM does not restrict the use of relevant links to specific pages, even of it's the same link that covers multiple topics but they don't seem to want to believe me. BIGNOLE (Contact me) 22:49, 7 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

The user in question, which is the one below, apparently doesn't believing in actually discussing and is just blindly reverting me. You can look at the link yourself. Here is the page. I found it on my university search engine, and it was written by an assistant professor Dr. Jes Battis, who apparently writes a lot of these types of peer journals and books. The journal talks about season 1 - 5, so I put it in the EL section of those pages because there currently isn't a "Themes" section in those articles. BIGNOLE (Contact me) 22:56, 7 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

User Bignole, you have been spamming external links to wikipedia pages, you have been edit warring to keep those spam links in e.g. [3] where you have made four reverts in less than one hour, and now you have gotten an IP blocked to keep your spam in. Martin451 (talk) 23:06, 7 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

How is it not a reliable source? It's a scholarly source, that has been around for some 35 years. Everything that is submitted to them is reviewed by their editors and board members. I'm lost as to what criteria is fails to make it an unreliable source. BIGNOLE (Contact me) 03:03, 8 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

You've returned to redact your warning on my talk page, but could you please answer the question I posed to you last night? BIGNOLE (Contact me) 15:18, 8 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Ok, so that brings back my point to my original argument and why I kept putting the link back. I'm not justifying my edit warring, but you agreed to remove a link that appears to meet WP:RS--at least you haven't told me a specific criteria that it fails--and is clearly not WP:SPAM (which you agreed to originally). So, why again am I in the wrong for keeping the link? BIGNOLE (Contact me) 16:20, 8 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Blocking of IP User talk:66.14.104.80

User talk:66.14.104.80 has been removing spam inserted by user User:Bignole, Bignole has given the IP 2 warnings for removing his spam, before reporting the IP to WP:AIV for vandalism, when the IP is just removing external links that should not be there. Could you please take another look at this matter. Martin451 (talk) 22:50, 7 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Upon further investigation it seems to be a bilateral, unambiguous edit war. While I wouldn't quite characterize that EL as spam, it certainly fails WP:RS. Thanks for pointing that out to me. Toddst1 (talk) 02:37, 8 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

About the ANON IP you've blocked

Hi~! Refer to User talk:76.31.109.45, he just blanked his page after you BLOCKED him, suggest reblock again with disability to edit own talk page. --Dave1185 (talk) 02:22, 8 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

S/He is allowed to do that. Toddst1 (talk) 02:31, 8 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Along with the "Blocked" template? --Dave1185 (talk) 02:35, 8 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Yup. As long as there wasn't a declined {{unblock}} template in the mix. Toddst1 (talk) 02:42, 8 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I see, what about the whois template? Is he allowed to blanked that too? Pardon me for being nosy, I just wanna clarify things or I might get into trouble the next time when I do revert such blankings in future. --Dave1185 (talk) 02:48, 8 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Well, thank you for your persistence. I missed that. I've restored those templates. Toddst1 (talk) 02:51, 8 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

No problem since you've sent my fingers going on a head-scratching mission, thought I might as well find out more. =) --Dave1185 (talk) 02:54, 8 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Special:Contributions/74.220.224.226

You should probably change the block reasoning to {{schoolblock}}.—Ryūlóng (竜龙) 03:12, 8 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Not sure I follow why. Look at the edit summaries. Toddst1 (talk) 04:01, 8 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

It's an IP that belongs to a school. This is more or less a juvenile prank.—Ryūlóng (竜龙) 04:37, 8 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

~~Could be. Regardless, the legal threats couldn't be clearer. I'm fine with how it is. Feel free to change it if you feel strongly. Toddst1 (talk) 04:39, 8 October 2009 (UTC)~~[reply]

I think you're right. I've changed it. Thanks for your persistence. Toddst1 (talk) 04:42, 8 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Blanked again

Hi~! Please take a look at User talk:136.160.248.5, the temp-block, whois and warning template was intentionally blanked again. Think should set to cannot edit own talk page in oreder to solve this persistent problem. --Dave1185 (talk) 15:39, 13 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks. The ipinfo must stay. Toddst1 (talk) 15:43, 13 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

70.181.39.248

Thanks for your help in dealing with this IP vandal. By the by, I fixed the repeat vandal template you added to the IP's talk page, as what appeared was just "Template:repeatvanal" ... so I added the "d" and it looks fine now. Thanks again. --McDoobAU93 (talk) 20:16, 13 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

A strange thing happened today

This edit got me confused, please take a look and tell me what you think. --Dave1185 (talk) 17:04, 14 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Request for my own blocking

Hi Toddst1,

I'm ready to make a new account and have a fresh start. However, as several editors have mentioned on my talkpage, that would be hard to do considering my 1RR restriction. As you probably remember, I consented to 1RR under the condition that you would unblock me, when I had less than 24 hours left on my original block. So what I am asking is that you block me for 24 hours, and the 1RR disregarded. That way my restriction will not be an issue, because I do genuinely wish to start over. Thank you. POKERdance ^talk/contribs 20:40, 14 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Better yet, how about you promise to never edit war and we lift the 1RR all together? I'd record that it was lifted in the block log. Any current blocks are not up for discussion. Deal? Toddst1 (talk) 22:42, 14 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Deal. No edit wars. That's a better solution. Farewell I guess, at least under this name. POKERdance ^talk/contribs 01:39, 15 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]