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No big deal

I am not worried about it...just wanted to set the facts straight about what I did. Happy Editing!--MONGO 00:45, 1 March 2006 (UTC)

Matt Leinart

I'm just getting started in the Counter-Vandalism stuff, so from you experience: about how long will this guy last? --TKE 05:51, 3 March 2006 (UTC)

• I have no idea. Let's hope he'll get bored. --Ixfd64 05:52, 3 March 2006 (UTC)

he done doed it again

despite your warning [1] Dsol 16:37, 3 March 2006 (UTC)

Re: User:Ichiro Yamato

That is actually a very different name in Japanese, despite the fact they are pronounced very similiar. I heavily doubt that's an attempt to impersonate. Please don't worry too much about it. Thanks for letting me know about it. --Ichiro (会話|+|投稿記録|メール) 21:39, 3 March 2006 (UTC)

Thank you!

Thank you! Hi Ixfd64, thank you for your support in my Rfa! It passed with a final tally of 86/0/0. If you need help or just want to talk let me know! Again, thank you! – Dakota ~ ° 23:25, 3 March 2006 (UTC)

While I really do appreciate your support

I withdrew my RfA seeing some very valid concerns about my lack of time on the project / lack of actual articles (some 95% of my edits were vandal reverts). If you want I'll let you know if another RfA comes up with my name in it in the future. Again, thanks for your support and I'm sure I'll see you around :) -- Tawker 08:42, 6 March 2006 (UTC)

your unblock of User:Wick%C2%ADin%C2%ADator

I have re-blocked this user, as his name contains two instances of an invisible character 0xAD "SOFT HYPHEN". I'm surprised you didn't notice this while unblocking, as I had to be rather clever to avoid error messages in order to execute the re-block. — Mar. 6, '06 [10:04] <freakofnur_xture|talk>

• Ah, no wonder Curps blocked that account. However, this issue could have been avoided altogether had Curps used a more descriptive block summary. --Ixfd64 10:11, 6 March 2006 (UTC)

Tawkerbot2

Ok, thats our first bug in a while. It disregards copyright violations as blanking so it won't kill those. As long as the copyvio tag is included its fine. What page was it? We need to take a look at it and see why tawkerbot2 was reacting.

Again, sorry about that and thanks for letting me know! In 250 edits thats our first normal operation bug. -- Tawker 04:37, 7 March 2006 (UTC)

• The page was almighty LOL, but it has been deleted. If you want, I can temporarily restore its history. --Ixfd64 04:39, 7 March 2006 (UTC)

Ok, apparently joshbuddy overhauled the codebase so I'm not sure if it would be relevant -- Tawker 04:50, 7 March 2006 (UTC)

User:Let's Get High And Edit Wikipedia

This user was blocked by Freakofnurture, you, and Curps. He has contacted me and stated he didn't choose the username with ill intent, and wishes to contribute. I am contacting all three of you to determine if there is indeed strong consensus that this name is inapropriate. Please respond on my talk page so all responses are in one place. Thank you so much! KillerChihuahua^?!? 12:27, 7 March 2006 (UTC)

• I have made a reply on your talk page. --Ixfd64 20:53, 7 March 2006 (UTC)

My RFA

Thanks for your support in my RFA. The final vote count was (66/2/3), so I am now an administrator. Please let me know if at any stage you need help, or if you have comments on how I am doing as an admin. Have a nice day! Stifle 17:02, 7 March 2006 (UTC)

User:Wsnhfshfkshfksd: having fun?

Look, if your going to spend your time unblocking every idiot who types with his elbows, I would really like to know your theory as to how this account might have been created in good faith, and what benefit there might possibly be in unblocking it. It escapes my imagination to think it might be possible for anyone to remember this registered username for a second login, because it's obviously a throwaway account, just like about two-thirds of the others, but, um... if it helps you sleep at night. — Mar. 10, '06 [00:19] <freakofnur_xture|talk>

• Some of those accounts were blocked with undescriptive block summaries. I was reblocking them using more descriptive summaries. If you see any accounts that I may have forgotten to reblock, please feel free to block them again. --Ixfd64 00:48, 10 March 2006 (UTC)

• Hmm, I thought that I reblocked Wsnhfshfkshfksd (talk · contribs). It seems that the block didn't go through. --Ixfd64 00:50, 10 March 2006 (UTC)

My RfA

Hey Ixfd64, how is it going? Thank you for supporting my Request for adminship! It passed with a final vote of 73/1/1, which means that I have been granted adminship! I look forward to using these tools to enhance and maintain this wonderful site. I will continue regular article/project contributions, but I will also allocate a sizable portion of my wikischedule toward administrative duties :) Thanks again, and if you have any questions/comments/tips, please let me know! — Deckiller 04:56, 10 March 2006 (UTC)

• Congratulations! --Ixfd64 05:14, 10 March 2006 (UTC)

Protect?

Hey, should we protect 2014? Deckiller 23:35, 10 March 2006 (UTC)

• I'm not sure. If the vandalism keeps up, then feel free to semi-protect it. --Ixfd64 23:36, 10 March 2006 (UTC)

My RfA

File:Atlanticpuffin4.jpg

This puffin looks friendly.

Thanks for your support in my RfA. It passed, with a final tally of 62/0/1. I'm touched by all the kind comments it attracted, and hope I'll be of some use with the new tools. You know where I am if you need to shout at me. Flowerparty? 15:54, 11 March 2006 (UTC)

Your RFC

Please be advised that I've filed an RFC naming you. — Mar. 12, '06 [14:37] <freakofnur_xture|talk>

• I am now aware of this. --Ixfd64 19:22, 12 March 2006 (UTC)

My RFA

Thanks for participating in my RfA. It passed with a final tally of 98/13/10, just two short of making WP:100. If you need my help with anything, don't hesitate to ask.

Naconkantari e|t||c|m 23:16, 12 March 2006 (UTC)

reporting a usual suspect

Apparently User_talk:62.6.139.11 is out on a vandalism [2] and POV-pushing streak again. Regards. Miskin 13:31, 15 March 2006 (UTC)

Successful RfA

Thanks for your support and kind words on my recent RfA, which I am pleased to say passed with a final tally of 80/1/1. If you ever need any help, or if I mess something up as an admin, please let me know. Cactus.man ✍ 07:55, 17 March 2006 (UTC)

Re: squidward

Actually the way I usually do it is one IP at a time. Load a squidward diff, click on the block button for the squidward IP first, then go to the contribs, and hit the rollback buttons in mass from there, using a bunch of tabs. This automatically avoids reverting the wrong edit. — Mar. 19, '06 [20:06] <freakofnur_xture|talk>

• I've made a reply on your talk page. --Ixfd64 21:51, 19 March 2006 (UTC)

RfA thanks!

Hi Danny! Thank you for supporting my RfA. It passed at 105/1/0, putting me in WP:100 - I'm delighted and surprised! I'm always happy to help out, so if you need anything, please drop me a line. Cheers! ➨ ❝REDVERS❞ 20:59, 22 March 2006 (UTC)

usernames

Hi Danny. Only bots are allowed to have it in their names. --a.n.o.n.y.m ^t 21:38, 25 March 2006 (UTC)

• That's true, but they could be actual bot accounts created by someone. --Ixfd64 21:44, 25 March 2006 (UTC)

I agree. They could contact me if they want it approved. One user already did before. --a.n.o.n.y.m ^t 21:52, 25 March 2006 (UTC)

• I agree with that as well. Alternatively, when requesting approval on Wikipedia talk:Bots, bot owners should post the username they plan to use when registering their bot accounts. However, the problem is that malicious users can register those names before the real owners do. I guess CheckUser is there for a reason. :) --Ixfd64 21:55, 25 March 2006 (UTC)

Yes. :) --a.n.o.n.y.m ^t 21:59, 25 March 2006 (UTC)

son,

Son! PLEASE!!!! Get on aim I have noone to talk to. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 151.198.114.17 (talk • contribs)

• I'll try to sign on some time tomorrow. --Ixfd64 03:27, 27 March 2006 (UTC)

GoldenBauhiniaSquare.png/jpg

You recently reverted my substitution of GoldenBauhiniaSquare.png with the JPEG version GoldenBauhiniaSquare.jpg. I had made the substitution in accordance with Wikipedia:Image use policy#Format, which says that photographs should be in JPEG format. There are good technical reasons for this recommendation: for example, the thumbnail at Golden Bauhinia Square takes seven times more bandwidth to download in PNG format than in JPEG format.

I agree that the PNG version looks slightly better at small sizes — this is to some extent due to a recent change to the JPEG thumbnail generator which emphasized compression over quality, perhaps excessively so. Nonetheless, JPEG remains the approriate, and recommended, format for photographic images on Wikipedia. If you'd like to see the quality of JPEG thumbnails on Wikipedia increased, it would be more productive to propose doing so at WP:VPT rather than replacing JPEG images with PNG versions. —Ilmari Karonen (talk) 23:08, 30 March 2006 (UTC)

• It wasn't my intention to revert your edits. Not long after you changed the image format, someone vandalized the article. Before the vandalism was reverted, another user changed the image back to the .png version. I initially reverted the article to your edit, changing the image back to the .jpg version in the process. However, I didn't check that far into the article's history, so I changed the image back to the .png version. I will now change it back to the .jpg version. --Ixfd64 23:15, 30 March 2006 (UTC)

The situation is not complete, but thanks for the help so far!

Thanks for adding your opinion to the RuneScape article, but there is still a major issue in the RuneScape weaponry article, especially since the damage has already been done to that article. I didn't get to complete my statement in-game, so sorry if I'm asking too much further.

Can you please voice your opinion on Talk:RuneScape weaponry, and settle a compromise once and for all? Thanks for any possible help!

Tarikochi 23:17, 3 April 2006 (UTC)

• Consider it done. If you need further input, please do not hesitate to let me know. --Ixfd64 01:15, 4 April 2006 (UTC)

My RfA

Hello Ixfd64: Thank you for supporting me in my RfA, which passed with a final tally of 77/3/0. I hope I can perform at the standards expected for administrators. If I make any mistakes, or you need anything, please let me know. Prodego talk 01:12, 4 April 2006 (UTC)

My RfA

Hi Ixfd64. Just a quick note to thank you for your support in my RfA, which recently passed 62/13/6. I will do my very best live up to this new responsibility and to serve the community, but please let me know if I make any mistakes or if you have any feedback at all on my actions. Finally, if there is anything that I can assist you with - please don't hesitate to ask. Cheers TigerShark 03:54, 4 April 2006 (UTC)

my user page

Thanks for the cleanup! Odd edit, that one. I suppose User:Tux the penguin wanted to copy the box for his own page, and pressed save at the wrong time. FreplySpang (talk) 04:51, 4 April 2006 (UTC)

• Yeah, that edit did seem odd. I'll assume Tux the penguin (talk · contribs) got confused, as he didn't seem like a vandal to me. --Ixfd64 04:53, 4 April 2006 (UTC)

huh?

Concerning this edit you said that the 3RR rule doesn't apply to vandalism. However as the user was putting forward a claim that it was not vandalism but instead the right thing to do. How can you classify what is and what isn't? J.J.Sagnella 21:14, 4 April 2006 (UTC)

Guinness vandal

How many times do you think this vandal has vandalized Guinness?? Please check. Georgia guy 22:40, 6 April 2006 (UTC)

• The number of times is probably too high to count. I will never know why he does this. --Ixfd64 22:43, 6 April 2006 (UTC)

• I counted up to 23 and the 23rd user name is Jungle Heimen. Please protect the page. Georgia guy 22:47, 6 April 2006 (UTC)

All right, I've semi-protected that page for now. --Ixfd64 22:48, 6 April 2006 (UTC)

New to Wiki, change self conscious page

sorry, im not very good at wiki yet, but i just want to point out that there is some missing text under the arrow on the "self conscious" page, and that i feel that it needs some links. people looking under that page deserve to have links to pages that can help them. thanks. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 141.211.248.167 (talk • contribs)

• In order for text to appear, make sure that they are not placed between the HTML comment tags. However, before you add any external links, please make sure they contain encyclopedic information. Thanks. --Ixfd64 07:23, 10 April 2006 (UTC)

Neologisms

Hi there, a while ago you made an edit on the Wikipedia:Avoid neologisms guideline. I am proposing a revision to the guideline and I'm soliciting your comments. You can find the link to my rewrite at Wikipedia talk:Avoid neologisms -- cmh 01:05, 12 April 2006 (UTC)

arenascape afd

i think that the deletion was ased on the fact that it was deleted before, so can you post your views on it on the afd page? thx Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/ARENAscape —Preceding unsigned comment added by Mindtempest (talk • contribs)

• I will take a look at it. --Ixfd64 10:04, 13 April 2006 (UTC)

Curps talk page

Thanks for the heads-up about my incorrect restoration of Curps' talk page. I've fixed it now. I think I know what went wrong: I executed my "check all" bookmarklet before the deleted revisions page was fully loaded. Snottygobble 04:22, 14 April 2006 (UTC)

Recent warning

You've sent me the following message: "Please be careful not to remove content from Wikipedia without a valid reason, which you should specify in the edit summary or on the article's talk page. Thank you."

May I ask which particular edit you are referring to?--85.187.44.131 17:49, 14 April 2006 (UTC)

• I was refering to this edit. --Ixfd64 17:53, 14 April 2006 (UTC)

Thank you. I don't understand how this happened. The edit of 17:44 is a deletion of almost the entire article, something that I didn't intend to do and don't remember doing, and at 17:45 comes the edit that I do remember making, a completely normal version of the page. Another mysterious thing is that your message comes in the same minute, 17:45. How was that possible, do you have some kind of an automatic service that reacts to deletions? --85.187.44.131 19:24, 14 April 2006 (UTC)

• That is indeed strange. I don't know what exactly happened, but this happens from time to time. I wouldn't worry too much about it. As for your second question, all recent edits are shown under Special:Recentchanges. A lot of us (including myself) regularly patrol that page. --Ixfd64 19:35, 14 April 2006 (UTC)

Template:MySpace

Recently you converted the MySpace domain for {{MySpace}} to an interwiki link. Can you modify this interwiki link so the website name begins with www? jareha ^(comments) 17:46, 17 April 2006 (UTC)

• Unfortunately, that's not something I could do. This can only be done by modifying the interwiki map at Meta. However, Brion Vibber recently protected that page due to its sensitivity, so you will have to get an administrator there to change it for you. --Ixfd64 18:02, 17 April 2006 (UTC)

Template substitution

Just a reminder from WP:SUBST, {{unb}} and other usertalkspace warning messages need to be substituted upon use. Thanks. --Cyde Weys 00:50, 28 April 2006 (UTC)

Tawkerbot2

24/7/365 (I hope) - it does go down but its mostly running around the clock. As for the issue with it not warning, I'll take a look, it might be having problems with edit conflicts, hmm -- Tawker 00:56, 29 April 2006 (UTC)

Justification article

Hi,

I noticed that you appeared in the edit history of the justification (theology) article. I recently made major changes to the article in an effort to move it to NPOV. If you have any suggestions for improvement (style, content, whatever), please leave a comment on the talk page for that article. The goal is to get consensus so that the POV and cleanup templates can be removed.

Thanks, --jrcagle 20:06, 3 May 2006 (UTC)

Thanks

Thanks for reverting the vandalism on my userpage :} Betacommand 02:30, 4 May 2006 (UTC)

Help with Kola Boof problem

Hi,

I noticed you have recently helped out the reverting the vandalism edits on the Kola Boof article. Thanks! However, the vandal hasn't stopped and I've come to the conclusion that the only way to stop them is through a "Request for comment" page, and if you could sign off on the page as one of the users certifying the basis for the page, it would be awesome of you. The page is located here:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Requests_for_comment/Fermico2

Thanks!

Shamrox 21:19, 4 May 2006 (UTC)

• Thanks for letting me know. I'll take a look at it. --Ixfd64 21:22, 4 May 2006 (UTC)

Thanks dude.

Shamrox 09:04, 5 May 2006 (UTC)

Re: Allymax page.

With Regards to the allymax page.

"allymax is the nemesis of the tims. He searches them out and informs the world of their existent websites. You can find out more about allymax by visiting http://www.network54.com/Forum/479501. allymax is the real allymax. When you talk to allymax you know there is no other that will substitute. There can only be one allymax. A tim site carrying the allymax name is 'RangersMedia'; allymax went there for 10 days, and found them out. Canadaready (canna-dae-ready), is a tim; he admitted it to allymax; see aforementioned site. allymax." --> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Allymax

I am the person known as "Canadaready" and I own the site known as rangersmedia. This allymax character was banned from my website for constant harassment of my websites members. A google result of my user name showed this page with its extremely disturbing content.

He is insinuating that I am a "Tim" which I am not. By calling me a Tim he is not only being sectarian towards Catholics but also is offending me by being allowed to post this on the internet about my website.

I am deeply offended that this is allowed to be on wikipedia as I am not a Tim and my site is not Catholic. I have never said such things to "Allymax" either and hope that you will remove this article. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Grantler (talk • contribs)

• All right, I've deleted his user page and left a note on his talk page regarding this issue. --Ixfd64 04:41, 5 May 2006 (UTC)

Too bad it had to come to this...

I never quite understood what he was trying to accomplish by harassing my website.

We are a fan club for the Glasgow Rangers FC and he waltzed in spreading hate and sectarianism on our site about hating Catholics etc. We IP banned him straight away and then this occured. Strange world sometimes. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Grantler (talk • contribs)

• I wouldn't know what he is up to either. However, if he harasses you again on Wikipedia, please do let me know. --Ixfd64 04:48, 5 May 2006 (UTC)

I sure will...

You have been a HUGE help to me. I never knew how this worked really until tonight. It seems like a pretty nice set up. Are there always people on willing to help?

Also, I don't know what I shold do so it doesn't have to show up unsigned. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Grantler (talk • contribs)

• You can sign your posts by clicking the signature icon that appears on your editing toolbar. --Ixfd64 04:52, 5 May 2006 (UTC)

Thanks

Thanks for reverting my userpage. Computerjoe's talk 15:58, 8 May 2006 (UTC)

ditto -- Samir (the scope) धर्म 21:35, 9 May 2006 (UTC)

Fidel Castro

I don't understand what is going on. This page seems to be vandalized on a daily basis. I have been doing some copy editing the last few days and noticed that someone steps in several times a day and reverts the vandalism. KarenAnn 23:52, 9 May 2006 (UTC)

hello

i was wondering if i could have your input on this article?--64.12.116.71 02:10, 10 May 2006 (UTC)

• Did you really think you could trick me into blocking myself? --Ixfd64 02:11, 10 May 2006 (UTC)

Bastard.. you beat me to the revert. I'd recommend and support a block on this user for that. Werdna648^T/_C\^@ 02:12, 10 May 2006 (UTC)

I've blocked this user, but only for 15 minutes as it's an AOL IP. --Ixfd64 02:14, 10 May 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for the revert

Thanks for catching and reverting the first ever vandalism on my userpage! I guess I've done something right if I make people who try to destroy wiki mad! --Falcorian ^(talk) 06:27, 10 May 2006 (UTC)

Vandalism to User:RadioKirk

Thank you! :) RadioKirk talk to me 03:12, 11 May 2006 (UTC)

hey

you unblocked him, killjoy--64.12.116.71 03:33, 12 May 2006 (UTC)

Tawkerbot2

Yeah, people hate it when people block the bot over one edit :o The false positive rate is pretty hard to stop, I can whitelist people and stop the bot from looking at the page but it really is hard to stop. Thanks for removing the block fast though, it saved me the "where the hell is Tawkerbot2" messages I got last time the bot went down :o -- Tawker 04:46, 12 May 2006 (UTC)

User:Tarikochi's images

The problem isn't the pictures, which are clearly fair use if nothing else, it is the use of them on the user's userpage. Prodego ^talk 02:08, 17 May 2006 (UTC)

Issue in my User talk:Tarikochi

It's still going, and the fair-use mentioned was the pre-given permission and the good faith is the interest of letting other Wikipedians come by to use them, thus giving them a purpose. Can this issue finally be resolved on my talk page? Thanks again for your participation and help! Tarikochi^Gallery_Criticize 02:25, 17 May 2006 (UTC)

Tawkerbot2

I was under the impression that Tawker didn't want it generally known what triggers Tawkerbot2, so that vandals will have a harder time evading it. If you know better than I, feel free to ignore me. Mak (talk) 22:49, 17 May 2006 (UTC)

• Well, most people who are familiar with the bot probably already know what triggers it. It's likely that many chronic vandals already know the bot well enough to avoid being reverted. The majority of "drive-by" vandals will attack only once or twice and are not likely to even see the bot's user page. But you do have a valid point, so I've removed the information for now. --Ixfd64 22:56, 17 May 2006 (UTC)

Sure, you also have a good point. I guess I still feel like it's Tawker's/Joshbuddy's call to make though. No problem though, just thought I'd ask. Mak (talk) 23:09, 17 May 2006 (UTC)

• Let's just hope the vandals won't go looking through the page history. :) --Ixfd64 23:14, 17 May 2006 (UTC)