User talk:Kinu/Archive 12

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Sockpuppets

This discussion has been archived and should not be modified. To comment, please create a new topic at the bottom of my current talk page by clicking here. Hi. You just blocked Icepicked4 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · nuke contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log) and Icepicked5 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · nuke contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log) as socks of Icepicked3 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · nuke contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log). All three of these are very obvious socks of serial vandal Runtshit, and I have retagged them accordingly. RolandR (talk) 10:11, 9 August 2012 (UTC) Thanks for fixing this. I wasn't previously familiar with this case but it definitely appears to be the same troll. --Kinu t/c 09:00, 10 August 2012 (UTC)

User:Asd86d

This discussion has been archived and should not be modified. To comment, please create a new topic at the bottom of my current talk page by clicking here. Thanks for looking into the User:Asd86d Sock-puppetry case.‎ GimliDotNet (Speak to me,Stuff I've done) 05:28, 17 August 2012 (UTC) No problem. Another one popped up today, and I'll keep an eye out for others. I'm hoping this troll gets bored soon and stops. --Kinu t/c 00:35, 21 August 2012 (UTC)

Extreme incivility directed at you
This discussion has been archived and should not be modified. To comment, please create a new topic at the bottom of my current talk page by clicking here. Your number one fan has some things to say. --Jprg1966 (talk) 20:56, 17 August 2012 (UTC) That was definitely a LOL. Thanks! --Kinu t/c 01:04, 18 August 2012 (UTC)

User:Wickedangry

This discussion has been archived and should not be modified. To comment, please create a new topic at the bottom of my current talk page by clicking here. Hello Kinu. I just wanted to let you know that Wickedangry (talk · contribs) has gone right back to the edit warring that you blocked them for last week. They have yet to make a post on an article talk page so it is tough to get through to them about consensus. I did inform them about that on my talk page but they seem to have ignored it. Thanks for your time. MarnetteD | Talk 16:45, 20 August 2012 (UTC) FYI, here's the warning I left about 20 minutes before you blocked this account: User talk:Wickedangry#Administrator's warning; I had declined to block this person at WP:AIV and left this warning. --A. B. (talk • contribs) 18:54, 20 August 2012 (UTC) Thanks for letting me know. I felt a block was appropriate here in that the user was clearly aware of the issue here; it looks like McDoobAU93 had left a message indicating the issue (at 16:13), but this editor chose to ignore that and continue the edit war (at 16:19). To me, this smacks of bad faith or possible WP:CIR. I've left a caveat to the block notice on their talk page; if they can show they are willing to cease the edit war, I have no objections to an unblock. --Kinu t/c 18:58, 20 August 2012 (UTC) I'm fine with the subsequent message you left Wickedangry about unblocking -- let's see if he/she responds affirmatively. I hope they do; clearly they have passion but as you note competence and good faith are necessary, too. --A. B. (talk • contribs) 19:17, 20 August 2012 (UTC) My thanks to you both in dealing with this editor. I have been off-wiki since I left my first post. There have been attempts to inform this person about our policies (here is my response to a post they made on my talk page from two days ago User talk:MarnetteD#pregnancies. Regretfully, this person just doesn't seem to be very responsive to any other editor. Cheers. MarnetteD | Talk 19:25, 20 August 2012 (UTC)

User:Inetcafebooth6

This discussion has been archived and should not be modified. To comment, please create a new topic at the bottom of my current talk page by clicking here. I think you are being a little hasty blocking talk page access for this user. Possibly I am assuming too much good faith, but I just left him a message, edit conflicting with your decline. It seems to me that we need if possible to make progress by discussion, rather than just walk away. Rich Farmbrough, 02:18, 25 August 2012 (UTC). And this would be helped if you restored his talk page access. Rich Farmbrough, 03:35, 30 August 2012 (UTC). To be frank, I'm not going to do this. This user's behavior and block was discussed at length on his talk page and on Jimbo's talk page and was found to be legitimate. That being said, this user has several remedies at his disposal if he wishes to contest this block and contribute again. He may contact any of the administrators who imposed any of the blocks against his account, either on the basis of sockpuppetry or disruptive editing. He may contact the checkuser who performed the actual sockpuppet investigation. He may also contact ArbCom with a legitimate request to have this block reviewed. I would say that, of these remedies, the last is the most appropriate, because of what I consider the inappropriate repeated e-mails (including at what I consider a "work" address) and calls (yes, on the telephone) from this person; I do not feel that other editors should be subjected to that as well. This borderline harassment by this user is not earning any favor with me, considering I had nothing to do with this user's case other than preventing him from posting additional irrelevant unblock requests. That being said, if you wish to engage with this user, I would ask that you contact one of the other aforementioned administrators involved in this matter; I have my reservations, but would not be unsupportive if another set of eyes felt compelled to restore his talk page access. However, I personally see no reason to do so, and instead recommend that he contact ArbCom. --Kinu t/c 16:39, 1 September 2012 (UTC)

Diary of a Bad Man

There was a DRV on July 1st - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Deletion_review/Log/2012_July_1 which looks like it went for restore. Opinions varied between AfD it again and it's OK. Personally, I'd go for a delete at AfD. Mention is made of new sources, but no-one has bothered to add them - whatever they are... Peridon (talk) 20:47, 4 September 2012 (UTC)

Ha... I thought the DRV that said it was from August was the most recent one, but that was from 2011. Obviously the July one from 2012 would be newer... . Anyway, I'm inclined to agree with you. I'll try to see what these alleged sources are and do some WP:BEFORE, and then if I'm not satisfied I might send it to AfD again. Thanks for letting me know. --Kinu ^t/_c 17:00, 5 September 2012 (UTC)

Socking in the free world, from Istanbul to Torrance, CA
This discussion has been archived and should not be modified. To comment, please create a new topic at the bottom of my current talk page by clicking here. Hi, Kinu. Is this an open proxy[1]? -- Rrburke (talk) 16:50, 5 September 2012 (UTC) It probably is, but I'm having trouble connecting to it myself. I've referred it to WP:OPP. --Kinu t/c 16:56, 5 September 2012 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Alan Lipscombe Traffic and Transportation Consultants

This discussion has been archived and should not be modified. To comment, please create a new topic at the bottom of my current talk page by clicking here. Thanks. I've never done what I did before, and although I looked at the instructions, I didn't put the new template at the "very top", even though the phrase was italicized. I almost asked someone to look at it for me; I'm glad you did so without being asked.--Bbb23 (talk) 13:49, 7 September 2012 (UTC)

James T. Thompson

This discussion has been archived and should not be modified. To comment, please create a new topic at the bottom of my current talk page by clicking here. Regarding your comment at Talk:James T. Thompson and User talk:Ethanagray; I don't think the user was a vandal; he was a new user, not understanding our collaborative editing process and how it was applied to an article he'd just started. Given our difficulties with editor retention, please consider how we might differentiate between confused newbies (however frustrating their actions may be) and deliberate vandals, and how you can help the former to become productive editors. Thank you. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 19:35, 8 September 2012 (UTC)

Vandal block

Hello Kinu. Some time ago you blocked this IP for vandalism on several road signs article. The IP has since continued, and I must now ask you to block it permanently. It's a sock a Jermboy27 (as he is known on Commons). Fry1989 ^eh? 01:28, 15 September 2012 (UTC)

This one looks static, but I'm still hesitant to block IPs indefinitely. Nonetheless, I've gone ahead and taken this one out of commission for a year per WP:DUCK. --Kinu ^t/_c 02:54, 16 September 2012 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

	The Admin's Barnstar
	For all of your great work at AIV today! Electric Catfish 16:48, 16 September 2012 (UTC)