User talk:This is Paul

IP Vandal...again

Hi there again Paul, I have been continuing to monitor the majority of edits made by our old friend 81.109.92.88. I feel this guy is either dedicating his life to messing up Wikipedia in his own little way or he is just plain stupid. I don't get it because not all of his edits are bad or incorrect but the majority continue to be very perculiar, for instance just editing sentence's to make them complicated, adding incorrect infomation, dumbing down or just adding irrelevant statements. For example on the Grimsby Town F.C. page in a statement that the club have played in the top 5 league's in the country, he said "before Northampton Town" meaning his assuming Northampton will be relegated this season, other edits are mainly made on Coach Trip, some of his work on here is valid but yet he makes a sub section called "Arrival day locations yet to be starting from in future series" with a statement underneath saying "The following arrival day locations have yet to be starting from for other first destinations", then there was a small table of locations, all unsourced so I have removed it. Other edits are like adding "More 4 + 2" as a timeshift to More 4 and various other random edits usually on TV related articles. I have never been able to get any sort of reply out of this user, what do you suggest we do? He has already had 3 or 4 bans on all of his IP accounts. Kind Regards Footballgy (talk) 16:08, 3 March 2012 (UTC)

Hi Paul, thanks for the reply, and thanks for bringing that to my attention, Very interesting. I will keep you informed on any devlopments. I've also added the sock tags to all the known previous IP's I have had problems with. Footballgy (talk) 02:41, 4 March 2012 (UTC)

Kept

The Murder of Casey Kearney has been kept for now. Good.--BabbaQ (talk) 15:36, 4 March 2012 (UTC)

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Re:IP vandal

Hi Paul, this seems to be a real deep routed problem. With something that began with a simple I.D dumbing down football related article's amongst others it seems to have turned into a monster, not forgetting numerous puppet I.P's. The pattern of the edits look similar to our friend however I am just waiting to see edits made to Coach Trip before I would be 100% on that, although he is back editing 2012 in British television. Have you linked him to the GMTV Chart Show page? I think maybe a sock puppet investigation maybe the only option we can swing to, but if he is switching his I.P everytime he is blocked how could it prevent him from returning? Regards Footballgy (talk) 13:10, 7 March 2012 (UTC)

Proposed deletion of Paul Connolly (journalist)

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If you created the article, please don't be offended. Instead, consider improving the article. For help on inserting references, see Referencing for beginners, or ask at the help desk. Once you have provided at least one reliable source, you may remove the {{prod blp}} tag. Please do not remove the tag unless the article is sourced. If you cannot provide such a source within ten days, the article may be deleted, but you can request that it be undeleted when you are ready to add one. MathewTownsend (talk) 20:02, 8 March 2012 (UTC)

Got another one ;-)

Well, if we can't help out our friends, what are we? :-) Having done some work with the backlog of unreferenced BLPs, know what a headache it can be at times and why the enforcement. (Don't think anyone can imagine something like that backlog happening again.) May not know the names, etc. as well as the ones here, but think if you thump away at Google enough, you can usually find something that fits. We hope (talk) 20:24, 8 March 2012 (UTC)

You're lucky you got that as I got the big pitch to subscribe or "no show"! :-) We hope (talk) 21:34, 8 March 2012 (UTC)

If you're able to view it, why not put the url you have through WebCite and that will make it clickable for everybody? We hope (talk) 21:43, 8 March 2012 (UTC)

When I try for the link at the Irish Times "Fiddling the System", I'm told that the article is no longer available-removed from back issues, but can be viewed if you sign up for (free) Pressdisplay.com. When I clicked the link you left on my talk page, I got Google.ie search results. If you can get a link for the article, WebCite is very easy-just give a valid e-mail addy and the link you want to archive. We hope (talk) 22:22, 8 March 2012 (UTC)

Not sure if links to tinypic are blacklisted here but if not, you might have a try at uploading your screencap to it. Have used tinypic for hosting images in other places where it wasn't possible for the image to be directly uploaded (some message board size constraints, etc.). Know that if the screencap is still a BMP, it will need to be converted to JPG in order to upload it at tinypic. On the Irish Times site, I can't even ask for a link without being told I need a subscription. (British Pharmacoepia won't let me in either, because I'm not in the UK and not in a developing nation, so it may have something to do with one's IP number.) We hope (talk) 23:11, 8 March 2012 (UTC)

That works so it must not be blacklisted.;-) My understanding of your broadcasting system is that at one time, it was non-commercial, government operated, and everyone paid a license fee for their radios and televisions. Since those fees were at least part of what paid to keep everything on the air, those who were outside of the country would be thought of as "not paying their share", thus no use. Here the government only deals with broadcasting rules and regulations. Can't imagine what we would have seen if they actually produced programs, but know it wouldn't have been anything like Upstairs, Downstairs, and so on. If there had been a Happy Days at all, there probably would have been episodes like "Good citizen Howard Cunningham does his income tax". :-) We hope (talk) 00:04, 9 March 2012 (UTC)

New one works fine ;-) We hope (talk) 00:06, 9 March 2012 (UTC)

Re:License fees, think of it as infomercial insurance. ;-) Some of the worst of the bunch are those of local auto dealers. There was a dealership in this area where the two owners always stood side by side as they promoted their place. They weren't related, but since they seemed to be "one unit" when they were on camera, we started a rumor that they were really Siamese twins, joined at the hip from birth. Soon the pair made new commercials that pointedly showed them on opposite sides of the screen and each in some solo shots. :-) We hope (talk) 03:01, 9 March 2012 (UTC)

Just had a look at it in IE and the deal is-it takes a moment or two to come into focus for clarity. Not sure why, but it does clear and is easily read. There looks to be an index to the Irish Times you can access if you know where to find it; backed into one for the Chicago Tribune some time ago. With that one, if you know the date the story was printed, you can look it up on their index for that day. You can look it up in Google News Archive and not need to do their pay-per-view if you use the index. ;-)

While there were some areas of the US who had cable for years because of reception problems, when it was pitched to those without that problem, their "big sell" was that one would pay X amount of money per month and not be bothered with commercials on cable. The subscriber was said to be paying part of the costs, therefore it wasn't necessary for cable to have commercials. I think you can guess how long that lasted--and their rates never do anything except go up either. :-) One of the ones that gets to me is a dishwasher detergent ad where the scenario is a Star Trek/Star Wars setup with a similar flight deck. They're watching the dishwasher's workings on a screen when an alarm sounds (greasy/baked on dish issue). The crew goes into scramble mode until they see the detergent being used is the "right" one. Those who think we need a big hype to buy the product are everywhere! Glad you were able to find the Irish Times source and also glad you're doing DYK with it! We hope (talk) 16:55, 10 March 2012 (UTC)

Paul Connolly (journalist) in Did you know nomination

I nominated one hook of this article in Template:Did you know nominations/Paul Connolly (journalist). The hook is an overview of the subject, Paul Connolly. You can review it if the policy of WP:DYK allows you since you created this article. --George Ho (talk) 01:58, 9 March 2012 (UTC)

Good work

Good work on the Joanna Yeates article. Really impressive! Started the article on Gemma McCluskie which has recieved quite alot of attention from users. Check it out when you got the time! Cheers.--BabbaQ (talk) 15:15, 11 March 2012 (UTC)

The Joanna Yeates investigation will be part of the Leveson Inquiry [1], here is another news update concerning Jeffries [2] and here concerning two people arrested [3]. Perhaps you were aware of these stories but anyway!.--BabbaQ (talk) 15:36, 11 March 2012 (UTC)

Your Grandaddy

He aint worth anything more than the battlefield fertiliser he became! What a MUG. What a MUPPET!!