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Contents MisterSoup and continued harassment Hi - User:MisterSoup is back to harassing me. Tonight, he/she placed the following on my talk page [1] I have to wonder if this user is the same one who has been harassing me for a couple of months now (maybe more) with blanking my talk page and user page, adding harassing comments, etc. In some cases, the one doing this kind of stuff used an IP only, but there was another user - User:RegisFugit - who was engaging in this behavior on my pages as well. I think it's possible they are all the same user (I would hate to think there's more than one person like this who dislikes me this much ;-). In any case, I hope this latest round of harassment from MisterSoup is enough to get him blocked if not banned. IMO, he/she never should have been let back after it was discovered he/she was a sock. --SkagitRiverQueen (talk) 05:04, 13 January 2010 (UTC) Pasting a discussion about above mentioned user isn't harassment. I wanted her to be aware of discussion MisterSoup (talk) 06:30, 13 January 2010 (UTC) You may think it's funny and/or cute to remove Userboxes from an editor's page, and to make abusive comments (as your very first edit!) to this editor. You are clearly a sock with a grudge. Your main contribution to WP (from your first edit) is solely to harass this editor. I see your life expectancy as very, very short. Good luck... Doc9871 (talk) 06:37, 13 January 2010 (UTC) PS - "User:MisterSoup", do you think by removing the warning tags on your talk page that you are actually covering up your misdeeds? I regret to inform you that the instant you save any edit on WP, it is automatically saved forever (in perpetuity). See you in the funny pages... Doc9871 (talk) 06:49, 13 January 2010 (UTC) I've blocked MisterSoup indefinitely. He had clear warning from me and from User:Lar that a resumption of this behaviour would not be tolerated & with no constructive edits in his entire history I'm not feeling he'll be missed. Nancy talk 08:45, 13 January 2010 (UTC) Thank you! Not only was "it" a blatant sock of an as-yet-unidentified editor, but a childish vandal - detestable for two reasons. No point in allowing creatures like that to exist here... Doc9871 (talk) 09:01, 13 January 2010 (UTC) Following up on discussion at my talk: Given the contribs I support this indef block as appropriate. I see that it's alleged that MS is a returning sock. I was not able to determine who might be the sockmaster, only that MS was themselves running a sock. That doesn't mean they aren't a sock, per  CheckUser is not magic pixie dust ++Lar: t/c 15:58, 13 January 2010 (UTC) No, checkuser is not "Magic Pixie Dust" and I never implied nor thought it was. I have now been receiving, however, harassing personal emails from this jerk that have been sent from a personal email address. What's more, I believe this user is actually a sock of someone who is thought of as a respected editor. And now, that very same sock has started vandalizing my talk page again. Thank you, Nancy for taking care of the vandalism and banning this person. I don't know if you realize it, though, but this person is likely to keep coming back over and over again, evading Wikipedia's filters using new IP addresses and anonymous surfing tools. As I suggested to Lar a few days ago (but he blew me off like *I* was "Pixie Dust" for saying it), I would also look into whatever IPs are behind the banned user RegisFugit as well. But...then again, it seems this person lives in Indiana (according to their IP, anyway) and RegisFugit once told another editor he hailed from Richmond, California in the Bay Area. Interestingly enough, at least one of the editors who has been giving me a whole lot of grief in Wikipedia lately also lives in Indiana. Coincidence? --SkagitRiverQueen (talk) 16:07, 15 January 2010 (UTC) Datchet Bridge review I have concluded my opening review at Talk:Datchet Bridge/GA1. Please reply to my questions and address the concerns. Thanks! Binksternet (talk) 18:18, 13 January 2010 (UTC) <=You, too, were a pleasure to work with on this GA process. If you take one of your suffragette articles to GAN, nudge me to review it. Binksternet (talk) 21:09, 15 January 2010 (UTC) Rollback re-request. I remember from two weeks ago you removed my access of being a rollbacker. I wasn't deliberately abusing it, All that happened was I just found the anti-vandalism program Huggle difficult to use. I use Twinkle to revert vandalism and I find it much easier, and so far I didn't get warned for misuse. The problem I found with Huggle is that you can't see the updated article along with the changed text, and that problem made it harder for me to concentrate. I'm taking a re-request for rollback rights, as per Wikipedia:Requests_for_rollback_privileges. I'm trying my best to assume good faith in all my reverts, and I didn't get warned so far for any revert using Twinkle. Minimac94 (talk) 09:26, 16 January 2010 (UTC) Hi Minimac. I've done a quick review of your recent reversions/CSD nominations and find them much improved. Well done. My immediate thought is that Twinkle, which seems to suit you well, doesn't need rollback and as you say, the way Huggle works makes it difficult for you to be accurate. Can you explain what you intend to use rollback for as I might be willing to replace your access on the condition that you do not install or use Huggle again? Would you be willing to accept that restriction? Nancy talk 09:43, 16 January 2010 (UTC) Thanks for seeing my contributions. Anyway, I mainly use rollback for reverting vandalism, unexplained removal of content and (sometimes) I remove unreferenced additions by using the Undo tool. Minimac94 (talk) 10:01, 16 January 2010 (UTC) Sorry, I forgot to answer the main question! I will accept the restriction you make. Minimac94 (talk) 12:37, 16 January 2010 (UTC) Rollback has been restored per acceptance of the conditions detailed on your talk page. Nancy talk 15:16, 16 January 2010 (UTC) Speedy Delete Dear Nancy: No, please delete them. Article age means nothing, other than unawareness or laziness on the part of others. These pages are valueless and cost Wikipedia money to maintain. In fact, we need another (yes, there was one a few years ago) major cleanup of this worthless clogging material. Thanx. Handicapper (talk) 17:14, 16 January 2010 (UTC) Hi again Handicapper, The speedy deletion criterion for deleting redirects only applies to "recently recreated". By anyone's measure 2005 is not recent. The requests must therefore go through WP:RFD Don't worry about performance. Redirects do not cost money and they do not "clog up the system". The redirects in question are not valueless August Belmont Jr and August Belmont, Jr are both perfectly likely forms for someone to type in the search box. Kind regards, Nancy talk 06:32, 17 January 2010 (UTC) Amazing that such.... Handicapper (talk) 06:23, 18 January 2010 (UTC) The General and the Sargeant Greetings (and in that order). Thanks for your reply on an article for Mary Sargeant Gove Nichols. I had a look at the General article, and I concur (agree even). A spirited, intelligent and witty woman making a stand with a touch of we might now call the pythonesque to accentuate one or more points. I can think of a sociologist I once knew, with a dog called "Lucky" (which I called "Lucky woof", just to remind that remarkable dog that she was in fact a dog - not that it made much difference...) who would find much inspiration in such biographies. I too enjoy the bonkers element of real life, which is where all the best pythonesque surreality, is to be found after all, in my opinion. You see a touch of that in Robert Liston, courtesy of Richard Gordon quotes, which are both factually accurate and unbeatable prose for that context. Of course the pythonesqueness of The General doesn't rely on prose to illustrate a point. She created a legacy whereby the most dry description could not possibly miss the point and be accurate at the same time. I hypothesise that was foresight, not accident. But foresight or accident, it is good stuff indeed, of which more could be said. The General and the Sargeant may yet prove to be a nice complement (collect the complete set!). Wotnow (talk) 23:03, 16 January 2010 (UTC) SPI Hi, Nancy! I need to ask about a sock I suspect, who has recently been editing an article I've watched and contributed to for a long time. While this sock doesn't seem to be overtly disruptive, the fact that he/she is a sock has really never been defended against my accusation, and rather sort of acknowledged with weak excuses. The very brief edit history, combined with the focus and obvious knowledge of WP, lead me to believe that this is a "sock with an agenda". How can I e-mail you in order to further ask your opinion without naming anyone unduly? I need a CU done - can you help me? Thanks :> Doc9871 (talk) 09:41, 17 January 2010 (UTC) Hello again Doc. By all means email me using Special:EmailUser/Nancy and I will gladly take a look however I can only give you a second opinion based on the behavioural evidence as I am not a checkuser, for that you'd need to file an WP:SPI or contact a CU. Best, Nancy talk 09:48, 17 January 2010 (UTC) I've checked out the contributions and I can't see anything to cause concern and/or justify a CU. As you say, it is clear that they had some prior knowledge of WP but were fairly clueless at anything other than a surface level, e.g. they did not know that article moves shouldn't be done by cut and paste. All in all I think it highly probable that it is true that s/he previously edited as an IP for a time, which in itself is not a problem - it's how most people start after all. If however you have a suspicion that this is a sock of current or blocked user then pls let me know and I will look afresh. Kindest, Nancy talk 10:44, 17 January 2010 (UTC) Thanks for looking into that for me, and please forgive the lateness of my reply! I think it's most probably a sock of a current user, but so unobtrusive so that no CU is warranted; thank you for helping me understand that! I knew that since he was clearly not a vandal, or even disruptive, that an SPI would be shaky because of these facts. I actually didn't know CU was such a limited resource earlier, naïvely thinking all admins had it as a tool(!) I feel it's a sock, which is against the spirit of WP; but he/she's certainly not a problem, as you generously confirmed. Thanks again, Nancy! :> Doc9871 (talk) 16:49, 19 January 2010 (UTC) Poponhop69 Hi, Nancy. Would it be worth a CU on this user to flush out sleepers? AFI-PUNK is pretty prolific. --RrburkeekrubrR 16:23, 18 January 2010 (UTC) I'd happily not come across this one before - I was alerted by the username at first but then I saw the edits saying "AFI PUNK is back" & thought I'd better dig a bit deeper. The account was only created moments before it started editing which doesn't suggest there are sleepers although obviously doesn't rule it out either. However... looking at the cases listed at USer:AFI-PUNK it doesn't appear that a CU has been run for quite a long time so perhaps a request to identify the underlying IP & see if it is fixed (ie appropriate for blocking) may be in order. Best, Nancy talk 17:24, 18 January 2010 (UTC) Phaxanation & The Dust Kickers Hi Nancy, I created the page for "Phaxanation & The Dust Kickers" as a band however it was deleted due to a a lack of significance or importance on the subject. I also created the page for the band "Darker My Love" a few years ago, which is in my opinion is an identical situation to this one, and the Darker My Love page has flourished, received factual updates as the band progressed and gained popularity. I believe the page I most recently created for Phaxanation & The Dust Kickers shows it's importance and significance as a band/musician and has the potential to grow and evolve just as the Darker My Love page did. If you could please let me know if I added any incorrect criteria or failed to do something I had done previous, I would be highly appreciative. Thank you. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 96.251.82.55 (talk) 22:00, 18 January 2010 (UTC) Greetings! Hello Nancy! I think wayyyyyy wayyyyy back you and I came in contact once, but to be honest I don't know. I was just curious if you could take a look at this and possibly provide your feedback? I would greatly appreciate your comments and I look forward to talking with you soon :) DustiSPEAK!! 01:29, 20 January 2010 (UTC) are you a social life failure? Why you so care about my talk page? I can do with it what I want unless there's no mat. Take a break and go relax to Siberia, kid. 95.68.45.171 (talk) 11:34, 23 January 2010 (UTC)