User talk:J.delanoy

My wheel-warring policy:

Admins: If you see me make a logged action that you think I should not have done, I will not consider it wheel-warring if you undo it without asking for my permission. However, if I marked the action as being done after running a checkuser query, or as part of a sockpuppet investigation, you should ask me or another checkuser before undoing it. In any case, if you do revert one of my actions, I would appreciate it if you tell me that you did so. Thanks!

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Hola

M.H.^{ITrue Romace iS Dead} is wishing you a Merry Christmas! This card promotes WikiLove and hopefully it has has made your day a much better. Best Wishes and Happy Editing.

M.H.^{ITrue Romace iS Dead} 15:38, 25 December 2008 (UTC)

User talk:░

Can you create this page for me? It's on the title blacklist and I can't create it for a decent purpose. -- IRP ☎ 16:26, 25 December 2008 (UTC)

I'm not sure what you mean. Do you want me to redirect it to his userpage or something? J.delanoy^gabs_adds 20:57, 25 December 2008 (UTC)

Yes, redirect it to the userpage please. -- IRP ☎ 02:57, 26 December 2008 (UTC)

 Done J.delanoy^gabs_adds 03:05, 26 December 2008 (UTC)

Thank you

Thanks for reverting that nonsense off my Talk: page. Jayjg ^(talk) 21:01, 25 December 2008 (UTC)

No problem :-) I hope you are having (or had, or will have...) a good holiday! J.delanoy^gabs_adds 21:16, 25 December 2008 (UTC)

With Thanks

		The WikiChevrons
		For the Coordinators of the Military History Project, in gratitude for your quick and efficient corrections to the pesky ad-infested templates that were so cluttering up the project pages, I am pleased to award you the Military History Project WikiChevrons. Cam (Chat) 22:50, 25 December 2008 (UTC)

:O I can't say I ever expected to get that award ;-) Thanks, and it was my pleasure :-) J.delanoy^gabs_adds 22:56, 25 December 2008 (UTC)

You deserved it. :) Allanon ^{♠The Dark Druid♠} 23:00, 25 December 2008 (UTC)

Re: [1]. To us, it was big; I don't want to know how much longer that confusion would have lasted without you. It could have been short, but it could also have been long. :) Anyway, thanks again! Cheers, Allanon ^{♠The Dark Druid♠} 00:35, 28 December 2008 (UTC)

Thanks

Many thanks for protecting my talk page -- hopefully that's the end of it! -Dewelar (talk) 20:01, 26 December 2008 (UTC)

You're welcome :-) It's probably not the end of it, but he unquestionably won't be bugging you again for at least 6 hours. I added your talk page to my watchlist, so if he comes back after the protection expires, I'll protect it again, for 24 hours. J.delanoy^gabs_adds 20:03, 26 December 2008 (UTC)

Protected edit request

Please see this request. Thanks -- IRP ☎ 20:21, 26 December 2008 (UTC)

Hello, J.delanoy. You have new messages at Template talk:Sockpuppet#Sock puppet links.
You may remove this notice at any time by removing the {{newmessages}} template.

Will you reply to the message there? -- IRP ☎ 21:58, 27 December 2008 (UTC)

Hey, Thanks for Zapping 68.12.144.108

You were right on his tail. LOL.

Thanks John Jomeara421 (talk) 22:02, 26 December 2008 (UTC)

71.58.33.252

I am requesting that you unblock this IP address. It is blocked indefinitely as a "vandalism-only account". -- IRP ☎ 01:50, 27 December 2008 (UTC)

Done. J.delanoy^gabs_adds 01:55, 27 December 2008 (UTC)

Please also notify the user that he or she has been unblocked. -- IRP ☎ 01:58, 27 December 2008 (UTC)

Unblock Request Notification

Hello, J.delanoy! A user you have blocked, Bob Mendy (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log), has requested to be unblocked, and your username is listed on my notification opt-in page. The unblock request is on his user talk page here. If you no longer want to recieve these notifications, remove your name from my list. If you would like to be notified about future unblock requests from this user, remove this template from your page. Thank you, DavidWSBot (talk) 02:00, 27 December 2008 (UTC)

Unblock was reviewed by another administrator. -- IRP ☎ 02:07, 27 December 2008 (UTC)

Unblock is always reviewed by another administrator. You can't review your own. The bot sends out these notices so you can see whether the reviewing admin agrees with you; it's not a request for J.d to unblock the account. – iridescent 21:35, 27 December 2008 (UTC)

Thanks

... for your help with IRC. I think I got it to work, though I'm not sure how it happened :) Chamal ^talk 05:52, 27 December 2008 (UTC)

Werdan7 gave autovoice to you and Jake W. J.delanoy^gabs_adds 15:34, 27 December 2008 (UTC)

Attack page

Why would you preserve an attack page directed towards you and show it out on your userpage for everybody to see? I would say that defeats the purpose of deleting it. -- IRP ☎ 21:08, 27 December 2008 (UTC)

For humor. It shows how pathetic vandals are, and it's pretty darn funny. 2D^C 21:31, 27 December 2008 (UTC)

It was deleted because it was in the mainspace, where it was inappropriate even though I did think it was funny. Essentially, if the target of an attack page does not mind hosting it in their own userspace, I don't see it as an issue. J.delanoy^gabs_adds 22:00, 27 December 2008 (UTC)

By the way, you forgot to reply to me at Template talk:Sockpuppet#Sock puppet links. -- IRP ☎ 22:03, 27 December 2008 (UTC)

ok.

) —Preceding unsigned comment added by 189.116.163.237 (talk) 02:09, 28 December 2008 (UTC)

Yaya Pagh Deletion

I really don't get why you say that Yaya Pagh is irrelevant. I'm her fan and I feel insulted. You can find her in tv shows and magazines all over in Brazil. You are prejudging her or what I wrote about her? Does she have to be a in a beauty pageant, a reality tv show girl or serial killer to be in wikipedia? Don't let her looks fool you, she could probably even beat you in chess.

I can start a petition to have her on wikipedia if its needed. Kat. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 189.116.163.237 (talk) 01:32, 28 December 2008 (UTC)

1) I didn't delete it. 2) it was deleted via WP:PROD, so you had five days to contest its deletion and 3) it was deleted almost four months ago. Why are you complaining now? J.delanoy^gabs_adds 01:35, 28 December 2008 (UTC)

Four months ago? I created it today. Please help me if you can. Thanks! —Preceding unsigned comment added by 189.116.163.237 (talk) 01:46, 28 December 2008 (UTC)

Hrm? Oh, uncapitalized. Well, to begin with, you need to tell more about her. From the page that was there, I couldn't tell anything about her. Second, you need to provide some citations to reliable sources so that people know what is being said is true. Reading our guide to writing your first article may be helpful as well. J.delanoy^gabs_adds 01:54, 28 December 2008 (UTC)

Four months? wow! I wrote about her today and after 5 minutes it was deleted and it had your name on. Just want her to know that it was me who made her be here. Help me! Tell me what I need to do.

Thanks any way for replying and happy holidays! Kat —Preceding unsigned comment added by 189.116.163.237 (talk) 01:54, 28 December 2008 (UTC)

Sorry! I couldn't see my first reply,thats why I asked again. I thought that google was a reliable source. If not do I need to scan magazines and record tv shows?If so let me know. Just tell me where to send them.

Thanks again! K. -Preceding unsigned comment added by 189.116.163.237 (talk) 02:02, 28 December 2008 (UTC)

You can't just directly cite Google. You should read WP:RELIABLE. That will give you a better idea of what to look for. J.delanoy^gabs_adds

WikiHorror

I saw your comment on the blog that I help maintain. We would love another contributor; the site was my friend's idea, but he's not actually too involved with WP. We are getting featured here, and it preparation are trying to spiff up the site. I know that your administrative duties probably sap much of your time, but this need not use any more of it than necessary, or the similar set of links you maintain on your user page. Whatever you are able to do would be great, either just sending me a link to a cool diff when you see one, or writing posts with an account on the site. What do you think? Can you help us out? Let me know. Cheers, Jake Wartenberg^Talk 06:24, 28 December 2008 (UTC)

Watch!

You deleted today's TFA! Spencer^T♦C 18:44, 28 December 2008 (UTC)

...Oh, sorry, Spencer^T♦C 18:46, 28 December 2008 (UTC)

No, I'm sorry.

I didn't realize it was TFA, or I never would have done that. I've contacted an oversighter on IRC, so hopefully he can send in a cruise missile instead of a hydrogen bomb >_> J.delanoy^gabs_adds 18:55, 28 December 2008 (UTC)

No problem. I just thought it was odd when I saw a redlink on the Main Page TFA. Spencer^T♦C 18:57, 28 December 2008 (UTC)

Neutrality of the Israeli Air Stike on Gaza page

Why do you feel the need to stress the fact that women and children were among the civillians killed in Gaza and not that there were women and children killed by the rockets and missles that had been fired by Hamas. You only mention the other side with light detail. I would like to suggest that you might focus on the Hamas attacks in a darker light. This is bothering me solely because I know some of the people who have been killed in the other attacks and yet your page indicates that those are not as important. Thanx for your time, a concerned reader —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.246.105.85 (talk) 18:52, 28 December 2008 (UTC)

I reverted you because you added contentious material without providing a citation to a reliable source to back it up. J.delanoy^gabs_adds 18:56, 28 December 2008 (UTC)

Anaheim Vandal

Hey JD! I've returned from my wikibreak. Perhaps you should protect your user pages; they still seem to be a target of the usual hapless vandals. AnaheimSux (talk · contribs) created another spare account today. ~ Troy (talk) 19:29, 28 December 2008 (UTC)

Yeah, I was just testing something to see if there is an easy way to do that. Unfortunately, there is not any easy way for me to protect my userpages, so I guess I'll just leave it for now. Thanks for the heads up about his logs, btw. J.delanoy^gabs_adds 19:31, 28 December 2008 (UTC)

Header added 3145

I am confused on why you deleted Frugal Repair corporation profile!? It was service that I have used and wanted to do a little research on how they started and thought it might be interesting to young people. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Durante1 (talk • contribs) 01:05, 29 December 2008 (UTC)

The page was nothing but an advertisement. Wikipedia is not a free advertising service. Go read WP:NPOV. J.delanoy^gabs_adds 01:10, 29 December 2008 (UTC)

disney timeline

as somebody who has edited The Walt Disney Company page in the past, please bookmark (if you would like) the now-separated Timeline of The Walt Disney Company page. SpikeJones (talk) 19:46, 29 December 2008 (UTC)

Advice

Hi J.delanoy,

If you have a spare moment, could I please ask your help on a matter which has come up.Could you please have a look at Question section on my Talk Page. I'm not sure how to proceed. Marek.69 ^talk 23:23, 29 December 2008 (UTC)

The problem has now been resolved, I think. Thanks. Marek.69 ^talk 01:02, 30 December 2008 (UTC)

Advice for fellow vandal fighter

Hello!

I recognized your name as somebody who often beats me to vandalism revert so I'm going to ask you for this piece of advice. I am long time Wikipedia user (since 2003 at least) but only relatively recent editor. I started editing because it disgusted me that anyone might feel the need to vandalize volunteer non-profit project like this. So I joined ranks of RC vandal patrollers and I'm doing my best to keep vandals in check. I've been using Twinkle to simplify and speed up vandal fighting process. But, I keep running into recommendations and opinions that next step in vandal fighting is Huggle. Sadly, it requires rollback permission which I don't have.

So my question is in 2 parts:

(1) As I see you use Huggle, can you tell me does it make that much difference, is it better/faster than Twinkle, basically, should I bother getting my hands on it?

(2) If yes, in your opinion as admin, do I stand a chance of getting rollback rights required for Huggle if I apply for it on Wikipedia:Requests for permissions? I understand that that editors with less than 500 main namespace edits rarely get the permission, but that does not exclude the possibility. My reasoning is that I might as well try to get it ASAP instead waiting till after 500 edits. Both easier for me and better for Wikipedia if I try now. In deciding on your answer, I invite you to check out my edits and to point out anything I'm doing wrong, especially if you decide to answer with negative response due to reason other than number of edits.

Thank you in advance --Melmann^(talk) 00:34, 30 December 2008 (UTC)

As a TPSer of JD, I say 1) yes yes and yes, 2) rollback granted. :-) Tan | 39 00:47, 30 December 2008 (UTC)

Thank you for making this as painless as possible. Cheers!!!--Melmann^(talk) 00:54, 30 December 2008 (UTC)

{{uw-rollback}}

Can you please vertically center the text and image on that template? -- IRP ☎ 01:12, 30 December 2008 (UTC)

I'm not actually sure how to do that. Sorry. J.delanoy^gabs_adds 01:14, 30 December 2008 (UTC)

Do you know somebody who could? -- IRP ☎ 01:15, 30 December 2008 (UTC)

It's not protected. Go ahead. Tan | 39 01:16, 30 December 2008 (UTC)

I know I can edit the template, but I don't know how to do what I want to to (vertically center the text and image). -- IRP ☎ 01:18, 30 December 2008 (UTC)

I've centered the text, if that is what you meant. Oliver Fury, Esq. message • contributions 01:20, 30 December 2008 (UTC)

I think he wanted it centered vertically, which I don't know how to do. J.delanoy^gabs_adds 01:21, 30 December 2008 (UTC)

Yeah. I tried a quick stylesheet markup with CSS, but apparently the style markup doesn't work on wiki. I've never messed with it on here that much. Tan | 39 01:24, 30 December 2008 (UTC)

I must have misunderstood. What is meant by 'vertically centered' anyway? It looks fine to me. Oliver Fury, Esq. message • contributions 01:26, 30 December 2008 (UTC)

Uh, centered....vertically. In the box. Instead of the text at the top of the box, it's in the middle. Not sure what the confusion is... Tan | 39 01:28, 30 December 2008 (UTC)

Like this? –Juliancolton ^{Tropical Cyclone} 01:29, 30 December 2008 (UTC)

I don't think that's right, or what IRP wanted. However, I'm off to dinner. Good luck. Tan | 39 01:29, 30 December 2008 (UTC)

Hmm, I think I know what he means. Check it out now. –Juliancolton ^{Tropical Cyclone} 01:32, 30 December 2008 (UTC)

Yep, perfect. -- IRP ☎ 01:53, 30 December 2008 (UTC)

Cool, glad I could help. –Juliancolton ^{Tropical Cyclone} 01:57, 30 December 2008 (UTC)

For Your Iron-Fistiness

	The Iron-Fisted Admin Award
	I hereby award this to J.delanoy for using his "WIKI" power to refute the crushing power of money. Seriously, keep up the good admin work vandal fighting. Cheers! Scapler (talk) 14:54, 30 December 2008 (UTC)

{{Throwaway account}}

Should I create that template? Do you recommend creating it or do you think I shouldn't? My plan is that it will be placed on userpages of apparent throwaway accounts. -- IRP ☎ 23:48, 30 December 2008 (UTC)

Please, please don't. Unless the account themselves has said so, it's a total breach of WP:AGF. My account regularly goes for months at a time without editing and so do many others. – iridescent 00:18, 31 December 2008 (UTC)

Iridescent, I said "apparent throwaway accounts". You have the following cues to figure out if an account is a throwaway account:

1. The account has made only a few edits (you have made many edits, so we can immediately tell that your account is not a throwaway account)
2. The the last edit was made 4 months ago (possible for your account, but see statement #1 that I made about throwaway accounts)

When an account is NOT a throwaway account:

1. If the account has made a significant amount of edits (which you have made many edits)
2. If the last edit was only, let's say, a week ago (that would be too early to tag an account as a throwaway account)

Remember that you can always remove the tag if the user resumes editing. -- IRP ☎ 01:28, 31 December 2008 (UTC)

Will someone reply? -- IRP ☎ 16:50, 31 December 2008 (UTC)

I'd have to agree with Iridescent. I myself did not contribute for some months leading up to December of 2007, and I don't know what I would have done if I had come back and seen a tag like that on my userpage. J.delanoy^gabs_adds 16:51, 31 December 2008 (UTC)

What problem is this proposed template solving? Tan | 39 16:54, 31 December 2008 (UTC)

I am asking before I create this template. It is for apparent throwaway accounts. This will be used on accounts that have only made a few edits AND have not edited in 4 months. -- IRP ☎ 17:00, 31 December 2008 (UTC)

I think that's too difficult to say for sure. Many, many admins I have seen created an account, made a few edits, and then didn't make any for 6 months to a year, or even longer. Then they became more active, started getting involved in more and more areas, and eventually stood for RFA and passed. And that's just admins. In all honesty, I think the only times you could be assured that using that sort of template would be correct would also be times you could just use {{indefblocked}}. J.delanoy^gabs_adds 17:10, 31 December 2008 (UTC)

It could always be removed if the user resumes editing. It would say "This appears to be a throwaway account", it wouldn't say "This is a throwaway account". -- IRP ☎ 17:29, 31 December 2008 (UTC)

If there is no current problem, why are we creating the template? Just for the hell of it? Unless an existing problem can be described, and shown how it can be solved (or ameliorated) by creation of this template, it should not be created. Tan | 39 17:27, 31 December 2008 (UTC)

It would alert users not to post messages on the talkpage of that account. If the user is unlikely to respond, then we should alert editors not to waste their time. -- IRP ☎ 17:32, 31 December 2008 (UTC)

Unnecessary. In all good-natured honesty, it sounds like you're reaching for a reason to create this template simply to be able to create a template. There is no problem with users wasting their time waiting for talk page responses that are not forthcoming. Tan | 39 17:34, 31 December 2008 (UTC)

Deletion

Hey. :) Why did you delete my block message ;-) ? That was not pure vandalism. — Aitias // discussion 03:41, 31 December 2008 (UTC)

Well, the first revision of that page is vandalism, and that is all I saw when I opened the page history, so I deleted it. You must have added your notice after I opened Twinkle's deletion form, but before my browser processed the JS request. I've seen stranger things happen... J.delanoy^gabs_adds 03:49, 31 December 2008 (UTC)

It's completely all right anyway. :) Happy new year, — Aitias // discussion 03:54, 31 December 2008 (UTC)

Eagle Mountain, Utah

Dear J - I noticed that an IP contacted you on the 8th Oct complaining about reversions on said page. There appears to be a fairly long history of tl;dr insertions concerning sundry municipal misbehaviour, and the current version indeed contains a typical sample of an uncited (and possibly partially lifted) mega-paragraph. I'd be happy prepared to attempt to unravel the edits and reversions etc but thought I'd first better sort out with someone who knows the procedures etc as I'm not sure where to take this and if there isn't a more straightforward way of knocking this on the head. I've no particular reason at all to get involved other than chancing upon it but its all good experience :) Anyway, your advice would be appreciated. Ta. Plutonium27 (talk) 13:11, 31 December 2008 (UTC)

PS. What makes me unsure about how to proceed is the fact that the problem/s stem mostly from IPs contribs. if I shoulda taken this straight to a report/page pro/ANI or somewhere, apologies. Plutonium27 (talk) 13:16, 31 December 2008 (UTC)

PPS Oh and the IP mentioned at the top is Special:Contributions/208.186.134.103. Man, I am just not getting it together today am I... Plutonium27 (talk) 13:19, 31 December 2008 (UTC)

- K, I've excised the essay, templated article and TP. Will send like to IP matey. More I don't know what to do and anyway I gotta get to work (night shift in the A&E). Happy New Year! Plutonium27 (talk) 18:40, 31 December 2008 (UTC)

Me and Miszabot: the saga continues

Sigh. I'm trying to get Miszabot up and running at Wikipedia talk:Notability (music). Fortunately, it didn't work the first day, as I forgot to change its archival point. :) (I copied the template from the albums project, where you helped me before.) I fixed that. It didn't work last night, either. Can you possibly help me out with this again, or would you prefer that I drop this on somebody else? :) --Moonriddengirl ^(talk) 13:43, 31 December 2008 (UTC)

I don't know why it's not working, by all accounts, it seems to be fine. The only thing I could come up with was that it wanted the parameters in a particular order (?) so I changed them around to the order it shows on MiszaBot's howto page. Beyond that, I can't figure out what's going on. J.delanoy^gabs_adds 16:55, 31 December 2008 (UTC)

All right, and thank you very much. If it doesn't work tomorrow, I'll run and whine to User:Misza13. It helps that it's not obvious to you. :D --Moonriddengirl ^(talk) 18:58, 31 December 2008 (UTC)

:)

i like you. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.130.143.203 (talk) 18:11, 31 December 2008 (UTC)

Ummm. That's great! J.delanoy^gabs_adds 18:13, 31 December 2008 (UTC)

apologies

i merely wanted to display my gratitude. i shall find a more suitable award.

Your message

I thought it was vandalism...because of IP user's warnings...I sincerely apologize for any inconvenience. Willking1979 (talk) 18:26, 31 December 2008 (UTC)

Not a problem. Huggle takes a bit to get used to, so try to take it slow, and be careful. I know many admins who will revoke your Huggle rights for things like that. J.delanoy^gabs_adds 18:31, 31 December 2008 (UTC)

Possible Lightbot Problem

Lightbot has been removing delinking "meters" in the infoboxes of most television stations and has now started on the radio stations. Should this be stopped, should I revert, what should be done? - NeutralHomer • Talk • December 31, 2008 @ 18:31