User talk:Adam Rock

Welcome

Redwolf24 8 July 2005 23:54 (UTC)

I see you need formatting help. Leave me a message at my Talk Page. :)

P.S. Yes the ipblocklist is hilarious, also try Category:Wikipedia:Indefinitely blocked users.

WikiFun Round 9: Lightning Round Time

I have decided to attempt to advance and end the round quickly. Parts of the question will be revealed with more hints and/or be more elaborated on as every two days. I have currently provided more hints on the answer pages for the current remaining questions. --AllyUnion (talk) 08:33, 6 August 2005 (UTC)

Sockster

User:Sockster conveys the same information that User:Sock-ster did, which I noticed that you deleted. I recommend deleting this user page also, unless I'm missing the point of deletion. I strongly think this situation is linked to (or rather, IS) WoW, especially based upon what User:Socknet's page said. Adam^Rock 21:27, August 25, 2005 (UTC)

Ah, thanks for the heads up. I've removed the old content but not deleted the page, as it also contains Thue's block message. It's not like there's anything dangerous to wikipedia there or anything, so it doesn't matter that it's left in the history. --fvw* 21:31, August 25, 2005 (UTC)

By the looks of it, The Anome did the same thing a while back, which got "reverted" by Milyle (talk • contribs) (here [1]). I'm apprehensive as to whether or not it won't be reverted to the "descriptive" version again. Adam^Rock 21:38, August 25, 2005 (UTC)

Then we'll revert it, and if they persist we can always protect the page (deleting doesn't help here, as they can always just copy and paste the text in again).

My reply on both pages was done by copy and pasting the text to both, it may be a little more work but it keeps the discussion legible afterwards (as opposed to just replying on the person whom you're talking to's talk page which means the discussion gets split up into two parts, one with the replies and one with the responses and to read it back you have to interleave them again, or as opposed to just replying to people on your own talk page, which means the person you're talking to doesn't get a new messages indicator and has to check the user pages of all the users they've conversed with recently for replies (which I often end up forgetting and having a large watchlist means these things can easily go unnoticed)). You don't have to though, there are lots of people who chose for one of the less laborious methods. --fvw* 22:08, August 25, 2005 (UTC)

Oh, and welcome to wikipedia by the way! --fvw* 22:08, August 25, 2005 (UTC)

User:Willy Wonka Bonka Tatonka

I changed the template back to SockBlock; "Willy Wonka Bonka Tatonka" was a Mickey/Mr.LOL sock, not a WOW. Mickey is a regular vandal who focuses his vandalism on a few select editors who have blocked him for vandalism in the past; WWBT's only edit was to my talk page. His vandalism is usually of the "User:X is so gay" variety; I haven't seen all the Mickeys (there have probably been about 50 incarnations over the last three months), but I don't think he's ever done page move vandalism.

Since you made the change, I felt it was appropriate to let you know why I was changing back; I know I hate it when I do something useful and it is reverted without comment. -- Essjay · Talk 06:08, August 28, 2005 (UTC)

Suspected WoW

I agree the category Category:Wikipedia:Sockpuppets_of_Willy_on_Wheels should be removed. However, perhaps we should make a Template:WoW-suspected or something along those lines to mark the suspected sockpuppets as opposed to the ones that have actually vandalized (and then swap the category for Template:WoW). The problem for this would be the addition of unnnecessary user page creation, so I'm not sure what I'm proposing would be useful in the first place. Just a way to categorize the actual versus suspected socks, but I'm not sure it would be needed. Your thoughts? Adam^Rock 18:30, September 1, 2005 (UTC)

• Hmm. An interesting idea, but I'm not sure how much it gains us. The single WoW template/category serves well enough for both types of SPs (used, and sleeper). I just don't see the benefit we would gain from templaing them differently. It would also be quite a bit more work, especially moving the existing sleeper socks over to the new template. As for user page creation, we're already creating pages for every WoW sock, sleeper or used, so I don't see two templated as being bigger in that sense. TexasAndroid 19:06, 1 September 2005 (UTC)
  • Maybe I just like the thought of categorizing the difference between a suspect and a proven guilty vandal, similar to the accounts on WP:ViP/WoW. That way people wouldn't ever have to list accounts there any more, and we could solely rely on Category:Wikipedia:Sockpuppets_of_Willy_on_Wheels and Category:Wikipedia:Suspected_sockpuppets_of_Willy_on_Wheels as links from WP:ViP/WoW. As it stands now, the list there is pseudo-comprehensive, and there's a constant need to update either ViP/WoW or add a {{WoW}} to the users listed. Adam^Rock 19:28, September 1, 2005 (UTC)
    • So you want to replace the ViP/WoW lists with the categories? Hmm. not sure that's a good idea. The lists in ViP/WoW provide quite a bit of information in a single place that cannot easily be reproduced in a category system. The dates of attack/block, for one. And the useful extra comments on a number of the ones that were used for attacks. There's just no way to show all that information for all the entries of a category. I may be able to be persuaded on this one, but at the moment, it just does not sound like a great idea to me. Sorry. TexasAndroid 23:08, 1 September 2005 (UTC)

Templates

Don't forget to substitute templates with section headers (such as {{Welcome2}} and {{Idw}}) when you use them on talk pages: it reduces server load, and prevents accidental blanking of the template. --Phroziac ^(talk) 19:48, September 6, 2005 (UTC)

• Thanks, I'll do that from now on. Adam^Rock 19:50, September 6, 2005 (UTC)

Reply about Willy on Wheels

Well, since somebody messaged me about an edit that I would honestly never make, and looked in "my contributions" in the SuperDude username, I figured that Willy was trying to take over legitimate usernames to circumvent security. And since the article that was edited had the same initials as Willy; it might of meant that Willy was trying to edit articles using his initials. I am innocent. --Nintendude 03:38, 16 November 2005 (UTC)

If you think somebody stole your account (can you still log into it?), you might find more success with getting help on many levels by posting at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents...which seems more geared for your situation. Post there with your complaint/situation and you'll get lots of people ready to help you out. :) Adam ^Rock 03:42, 16 November 2005 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Wikifun

Hi, I've noticed you've taken part in Wikifun before.

Just to let you know, Round 11 begins today at 0900 GMT. Dmn 04:25, 8 December 2005 (UTC)

Wikifun round 12

This is to invite you to participate in the next game of Wikifun.
Round 12 will begin at 11:00 UTC on Friday January 20. 2006.
-- Ravn 17:19, 18 January 2006 (UTC)

Userboxes

Hi. I've noticed that you're making use of political or religious userboxes on your user page. They can be a nifty way to share about one's personal preferences, but I realized, after a while, that they often detract from the real purpose of Wikipedia, that is, writing an encyclopedia. I'm inviting you to consider these words from Jimbo Wales, the site operator:

I wonder if you might consider simply removing your political/religious/etc. userboxes and asking others to do the same. This seems to me to be the best way to quickly and easily end the userbox wars.

Userboxes of a political or, more broadly, polemical, nature are bad for the project. They are attractive to the wrong kinds of people, and they give visitors the wrong idea of what it means to be a Wikipedian.

I think rather than us having to go through a mass deletion (which is what is likely to happen if the userbox fad doesn't go away), it will be better to simply change the culture, one person at a time. Will you help me?

Thank you for your time.

{{User:Vacuum/sig}} 02:26, 6 February 2006 (UTC)

Hello ^_^

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Image:Labview-logo.png

Hello, Adam Rock. An automated process has found and will an image or media file tagged as nonfree media, and thus is being used under fair use that is in your userspace. The image (Image:Labview-logo.png) was found at the following location: User:Adam Rock/temp. This image or media will be removed per criterion number 9 of our non-free content policy. The image or media will be replaced with Image:NonFreeImageRemoved.svg , so your formatting of your userpage should be fine. This does not necessarily mean that the image is being deleted, or that the image is being removed from other pages. It is only being removed from the page mentioned above. All mainspace instances of this image will not be affected Please find a free image or media to replace it with, and or remove the image from your userspace. User:Gnome (Bot)-talk 17:25, 16 May 2007 (UTC)

WP:CVU status

The Wikipedia:Counter-Vandalism Unit project is under consideration to be moved to {{inactive}} and/or {{historical}} status. You have been identified as a project member and your input as to this matter would be welcomed at WT:CVU#Inactive.3F. Thank you. Delivered on behalf of user:xaosflux 01:15, 10 August 2007 (UTC)

ArbCom elections are now open!

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ArbCom elections are now open!

Hi,
You appear to be eligible to vote in the current Arbitration Committee election. The Arbitration Committee is the panel of editors responsible for conducting the Wikipedia arbitration process. It has the authority to enact binding solutions for disputes between editors, primarily related to serious behavioural issues that the community has been unable to resolve. This includes the ability to impose site bans, topic bans, editing restrictions, and other measures needed to maintain our editing environment. The arbitration policy describes the Committee's roles and responsibilities in greater detail. If you wish to participate, you are welcome to review the candidates' statements and submit your choices on the voting page. For the Election committee, MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 13:32, 23 November 2015 (UTC)

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JavaScript RegExp problem

I noticed you have experience in JavaScript. I'm hoping you can help me with a problem I've run into writing a userscript.

Please see my post at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject JavaScript#Nested RegExp.

Thank you. The Transhumanist 12:09, 5 May 2017 (UTC)