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Sheynhertz' IP

It doesn't look like the block is going to be overturned, thankfully, so I'll start on the cleanup tomorrow. I intended to start on Category:Articles in translation, which will mostly be a case of removing the tag, then moving onto Category:Wikipedia articles needing translation. I may not get through with much of it, as I have other stuff to do and I'm going on a canal trip starting Saturday, but I'll try to make a start. The fact that he's so easily able to evade his block by switching IPs is problematic, however. I'm unfamiliar with how range blocks work - if I notice him continuing to edit, can I block the same range you did, 61.112.0.0/16, to stop him? --Sam Blanning^(talk) 22:53, 30 August 2006 (UTC)

Sounds good. Apart from the tags, I typically also removed the "Works" and "References" sections to arrive at a clean one-sentence stub. I'll try to work on turning the onomastics pages into disambiguation pages - we'll see how much can be salvaged.

When you block the range, you block his whole ISP (65536 IPs) so you should keep the range blocks short (but I haven't heard of any other users on his ISP, so he might be the only one?). 3 hours is probably pretty long already, but we need to make it clear to him that he is not allowed to edit. Thank you for your help and the support at WP:AN! Kusma (討論) 06:24, 31 August 2006 (UTC)

Hi Samuel and Kusma. As Sheynhertz uses dial-up, as the hostnames tell, the IP address he uses may always vary when he tries to re-dial. So it is really easy for him to evade this block. We Japanese Wikipedia's admins have used to get hard to block him until the range block activated. We have a list of ranges of IP addresses he might use on nearly bottom of ja.wp's page ja:Wikipedia:投稿ブロック依頼/Vacsora関連. I wish this will help you. Thanks. Sylphie 00:57, 1 September 2006 (UTC)

Thank you. I will consider a long-time rangeblock of these IPs as a last resort. Don't you have problems with other users trying to edit from that range? Kusma (討論) 09:13, 1 September 2006 (UTC)

As far as I know, we have never received any requests for unblock those ranges, other than Sheynhertz. I think it is because that most Japanese Internet users use faster lines than dial-up modem, like optical lines, and there are few number of dial-up modem users. Sylphie 11:53, 2 September 2006 (UTC)

Hello Kusma

Hello Kusma. How are you? I hope your transition back to Germany was smooth and not stressful. I also noted that someone vandalised your page and then seems to be a reincarnation of someone you have had problems in the past. Is there any way that I can help? Thanks, Blnguyen | rant-line 06:44, 1 September 2006 (UTC)

I'm fine, thank you! I hope you are as well, haven't heard from you in quite some time. My move took a long time, but was not too bad in the end :-) The user who accused me of anti-Semitism is Sheynhertz-Unbayg, who has just been banned from Wikipedia on my suggestion. See WP:AN#Ban of Sheynhertz-Unbayg. If you want to help, keep an eye open for edits from the 61.112 range with an edit summary of "rvv" that revert me or Samuel Blanning or anybody else trying to clean up Sheynhertz-Unbaygs's messy "onomastics" pages. As he changes IPs often, it is then necessary to block a whole range - for lazy people, the range is 61.112.0.0/16, for less lazy people the ranges linked in the post above on jawiki might suffice. You might watchlist Mahler (disambiguation), where he apparently can't stand the current state of the article. If you ask why any of this is bad enough for banning him - the articles itself are not so much a problem, it is his unwillingness to talk about them. See the RfC linked from the AN post, and you will understand. If you have a better idea than blocking him until he finds something else to do, I'm listening. Happy editing, Kusma (討論) 09:20, 1 September 2006 (UTC)

Move Request Mention

I suppose you're not the most unbiased person to ask, since you gave your opinion in the Talk:Prime Minister move request, but I'd like to know your opinion on this comment. I have no problem with Jt mentioning an open move request to the Irish Wikipedians notice board as it could potentially be of interest to them, but I'm curious whether the insertion of the statement (half upper-case, half lower-case!) is okay. To me, it sounded like unnecessary editorialization, as he's essentially saying that's preposterous! and mischaracterizing the situation (note SigPig's comment on the move request), and I fear it may have influenced the !votes of Irish users Mal, Djegan, and Bastun. I didn't want to bring this up on Talk:Prime Minister if Jt's comment is normally considered okay. -- tariqabjotu 12:13, 2 September 2006 (UTC)

I don't want to wikilawyer on this. This kind of things is common and very often, posts on notice boards are a good thing. I don't see how a capitalization fix is interesting to Irish users, though. Thank you for staying cool when you were accused of being stupid, by the way. As the Times seems to agree with you, you're not the one who's looking stupid after all. Kusma (討論) 12:23, 2 September 2006 (UTC)

Alright; I'll leave it be. It probably won't have an affect on the outcome of the move request anyway and I would hate to fan the flames. -- tariqabjotu 12:31, 2 September 2006 (UTC)

Userfying

My apologies! A question: when moving for userfying, is it best to do it to the main user's page (assuming it's a red link), or to a subpage? Thanks Akradecki 16:48, 2 September 2006 (UTC)

Lebedev

I was looking through the Mikhail Lebedev page and it seems to be vanity and non-notable to me. First of all, there is hardly any information about him on Google. Then, none of the publications seem to be news-worthy and notable. Finally, the scientist does not have many 1st author publications and seems to be non-important in his field. If you agree with me, can you please help me nominate Mikhail Lebedev for deletion? --GoOdCoNtEnT 08:49, 3 September 2006 (UTC)

You're probably right, but I have no idea of neuroscience, so I am not certain how notable his research is. Certainly the list includes lots of publications that don't need to be here. Do we have any good Wikipedian neuroscientists that you can ask for an evaluation? Kusma (討論) 09:10, 3 September 2006 (UTC)

Sheynhertz

Sheynhertz-Unbayg appears to be using 61.112.85.140 to edit, as evidenced by Basch and User talk:Sheynhertz-Unbayg. Mo-Al 18:46, 3 September 2006 (UTC)

61.112.84.108 is probably him too (looking at the Hitzig article). Mo-Al 00:49, 7 September 2006 (UTC)

DELAG

Did you know? was updated. On 3 September, 2006, a fact from the article DELAG, which you recently nominated, has been featured in that section on the Main Page. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the "Did you know?" talk page.

I'm usually a stickler for references, but the idea of Zeppelins comprising the first airline was too cool. The German wikipedia article looked reasonable, and I found some reasonable web citations. Would be great if the author could pull out some refs. Cheers -- Samir धर्म 20:28, 3 September 2006 (UTC)

Thanks! That's why I nominated it, I also thought it was really cool when I found out. Featured article Zeppelin doesn't hve inline refs either, or I would have tried to copy some of these. Happy editing, Kusma (討論) 11:40, 4 September 2006 (UTC)

Long-Overdue RfA Thanks from Alphachimp

Thanks for your support in my not-so-recent RfA, which was successful with a an overwhelmingly flattering and deeply humbling total of 138/2/2 (putting me #10 on the RfA WP:100). I guess infinite monkey theorem has been officially proven. Chimps really can get somewhere on Wikipedia. With new buttons come great responsibility, and I'll try my best to live up to your expectations. If you need assistance with something, don't hesitate to swing by my talk page or email me (trust me, I do respond :)). The same goes for any complaints or comments in regard to my administrative actions. Remember, I'm here for you. (Thanks go to Blnguyen for the incredible photo to the right.) alphaChimp laudare 01:36, 4 September 2006 (UTC)

You were my last support. Thanks! alphaChimp ^laudare 01:36, 4 September 2006 (UTC)

You must have had quite some work thanking everybody. Congratulations and good luck with the new buttons! Kusma (討論) 11:41, 4 September 2006 (UTC)

He's back...

61.112.95.245 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · filter log · WHOIS · RDNS · RBLs · http · block user · block log), fyi. Ryūlóng 09:29, 4 September 2006 (UTC)

Thanks! I'm busy in real life right now (a conference), but I'll consider a large-scale long-term rangeblock like on the Japanese Wikipedia later this week so we don't have to block his individual socks all the time. Kusma (討論) 11:39, 4 September 2006 (UTC)

Translation

Hi Kusma. Just here to tell you that Magyar Cserkészlány Szövetség has been translated. However, WP:PNT is not saying how a page can be delisted. If you are as familiar with this topic as you seem, could you do that for me? It would also help if you added a quick description of how to do it to the lead section of that page. Thanks & happy editing (and/or conferencing...:)), KissL 10:33, 5 September 2006 (UTC)

Their section can just be removed. I have done that and added that to the description on the page. Happy editing, Kusma (討論) 11:40, 5 September 2006 (UTC)

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User-generated TV deletion

Any chance you could restore this article and start a standard deletion discussion? Thanks a lot, Billbell 16:13, 6 September 2006 (UTC)

Guess who needs to be told what being banned is in Japanese?

'uggoth (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · nuke contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log) Just to let you know, yet again. Ryūlóng 08:03, 8 September 2006 (UTC)

Thanks again! I deleted his G5 contributions and did a little more cleanup. Kusma (討論) 08:45, 8 September 2006 (UTC)

Electors of Brandenburg

Moin Kusma! Would you mind moving John II, Elector of Brandenburg to John, Elector of Brandenburg? The latter currently redirects to Hans, Margrave of Brandenburg, which, along with John, Margrave of Brandenburg, used to be awkwardly arranged articles about the same misnamed individual. I have corrected that half of the problem by creating John, Margrave of Brandenburg-Kulmbach. Thanks! Olessi 06:22, 9 September 2006 (UTC)

Done. Kusma (討論) 10:40, 10 September 2006 (UTC)

Thank you! Olessi 19:36, 10 September 2006 (UTC)

Cent

I don't find the overlapping box ugly; in fact I rather like it. But I hear your concern and I've addressed it. Please talk to me if you have further concerns about the appearance of {{cent}}. Thank you. John Reid 14:06, 10 September 2006 (UTC)

I don't like the colors at all, but I don't have a good suggestion. Kusma (討論) 08:18, 11 September 2006 (UTC)

Please check it out again and tell me what you think. You're not the only one to complain, just the most polite. John Reid 01:08, 12 September 2006 (UTC)

Much better now, thanks! Kusma (討論) 06:22, 13 September 2006 (UTC)

Cancel NOW This Minute!!!!!!!!!!

To My enemies (User:Kusma, etc):

I'll protest and fight eternally againt YOU!!!!.

Because, I never accept and concede the "blocking" and blocking aginst me!!!!!!.

They reverted, vandalised, and destroyed many useful edits!!

They deleted all articles that's useful to World and stub he made ([1]).

They are attacking to me. Because they hates me.

They wants that I feel very sorrow and die (I may commit suicide...). They hates me.

Sylphie loves slander for me!!!

And, They love to delete useful information and redlinks (User:Mo-Al also)!!!!

I fight my enemies eternally.

Revive my and his edits This Minute!!! (or like [[UserName/Deleted article with all history]])

Sheynhertz 09:26, 4 September 2006 (UTC)

CANCEL the blocking aginst me This Minute!!!

You want that I am banned eternally, and I feel very sorrow!!

YOU are my ENEMY!!!! I'M STRONGLY GRUDGING AGAINST YOU! NOW!! 20:31, 11 September 2006 (UTC) Sheynhartz

I am sorry that you feel that way. I certainly do not hate you, although you have caused me (and others) hours of work already. Kusma (討論) 20:35, 11 September 2006 (UTC)

		The Random Acts of Kindness Barnstar
		Wow...after that blast, I think you might need this! Akradecki 21:12, 11 September 2006 (UTC)

You're most welcome. I'm not an admin, so I'm not involved in such things at your level, but I am involved in a disputed and continually vandalized (and sockpuppetted, too!) AfD, so I know how frustration levels can rise! Keep up the good work! Akradecki 21:48, 11 September 2006 (UTC)

Ha, Akradecki stole my idea :) I was also going give you a barnstar too for dealing with this whole unfortunate Sheynhertz issue in the best way possible. Well done! nadav 05:04, 13 September 2006 (UTC)

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User:Oscar Wild

See his talk page ;) Thanks for the heads up - Glen 12:50, 13 September 2006 (UTC)

Special:Allmessages

Re [2] on VPT: you're right. I'm at the end of my ideas about that ;-). But thanks for the new message text on Special pages. This is already a big help. Cheers, --Ligulem 13:09, 13 September 2006 (UTC)

I tried to search at meta and mediawiki.org, but also without much success. Maybe a developer reads our thread... Kusma (討論) 13:27, 13 September 2006 (UTC)

I found something. See my post on VPT --Ligulem 09:21, 14 September 2006 (UTC)

I saw it. Now we just need good ideas what to put on these pages... Kusma (討論) 09:25, 14 September 2006 (UTC)

Onomastic pages created by Sheynhertz-Unbayg

One of these pages got listed on AfD: Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Heim (onomastics). It would be better of all of them get fixed/deleted/whatever together. I do not know how to organize something like that, though. Pavel Vozenilek 22:36, 13 September 2006 (UTC)

I fixed Orlík and Orlik. While small it was such a mess - talk pages not moved, links in articles not changed, interwikis ignored. Pavel Vozenilek 00:47, 16 September 2006 (UTC)

I added about dozen of new items into Wikipedia:Village_pump_(miscellaneous)#Onomastic_pages_created_by_Sheynhertz-Unbayg. Perhaps this section could be moved somewhere before it fells into the bottomless well of Village pump. Pavel Vozenilek 01:44, 16 September 2006 (UTC)

Christine Davison deleted

Hello Kusma, on August 28th the article titled Christine Davison was deleted by yourself. I assume I broke the rules. If I did it was unintentional and we'd be willing to amend. At any rate, we'd like to have the article undeleted. Thanks. Sjsandford 13:15, 18 September 2006 (UTC)

M:TG player AfD debates

Please re-open these debates. These are not bad faith nominations. We need to consider the suitability for inclusion of non-notable ccg players. Note that I have not nominated David Williams (card player) because it does meet the criteria of WP:BIO and is properly sourced. -- Malber (talk • contribs) 15:32, 18 September 2006 (UTC)

The one I closed was not sourced or written well, but also met WP:BIO. If you want to discuss general criteria for inclusion, I suggest Wikipedia talk:Notability (people) instead of AFDs of pro players that are the subject of a book. Kusma (討論) 15:49, 18 September 2006 (UTC)

The book in question does not detail their activities in M:TG. -- Malber (talk • contribs) 16:35, 18 September 2006 (UTC)

WikiProject

Hi Kusma,

a few months ago you proposed creating a WikiProject to organize articles about the German Democratic Republic. Although I forgot to comment in the discussion, I would actually also be interested in such a project. User:Freerick stated the same in the discussion. I'm sure we'd be able to find a few more people, who would be interested in this. How about another try to get this started up?--Carabinieri^T_T^a_a^l_l^k_k 21:52, 18 September 2006 (UTC)

WP:NC(GN)

I apologize for spamming your talk page, but since you had contributed in the past to the WP:NC(GN) proposal, which is currently ready for a wider consultation, I thought you might want to give it another look now and, hopefully, suggest some final improvements. Thanks. --Lysy^talk 22:57, 18 September 2006 (UTC)

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Re: {{TOETAG}} template shortcut

{{TOETAG}} is easier for me to remember than {{db-redirnone}}. I actually had to go back and look it up to retype it just now. I didn't realize that the delete log summary includes the shortcut, but all I can say is that for memory's sake, the concept of the toe-tag on a corpse is analogous to a redirect (the toe) to nothing (usually a dead page). That's why I added the edit summary to the template that says it's "mnemonically appropriate." Sorry if it's an extra step, if I were an admin I'd delete these orphaned redirs myself.

Incidentally, there's no tag for a redirect that has no backlinks as well as no target. Which is what I'm hunting for and tagging this afternoon. Some redirects I've tagged seem concocted to prevent real articles from having any redlinks.

2 admins: User:NawlinWiki and User:Flowerparty didn't seem to mind the shortcut. Ask them about it, after you check out this entry in the deletion log:

http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Log/delete&page=Dendrophiliac

Hope this helps!

 Schweiwikist   (talk)  19:53, 19 September 2006 (UTC)

Point taken!

Understood. I took my cue from the fact that User:Rdsmith4 created a shortcut instead {{db}} called {{ANNIHILATE}}, but that shortcut doesn't appear on the {{db-reason}} template page along with the shortcut that already appears there. I appreciate the time you took to clear this up for me.

 Schweiwikist   (talk)  20:28, 19 September 2006 (UTC)

xTPx

This articule was deleted can I be told why? ThunderGold 13:43, 22 September 2006 (UTC)

It was about a non-notable gaming clan. Besides being deletable because it had been proposed for deletion for more than 5 days without anybody disagreeing, the article also did not assert the significance of the subject and qualified for deletion under WP:CSD#A7. Kusma (討論) 13:48, 22 September 2006 (UTC)

The article was going to be more detailed and what do you mean by non-notabe gaming clan? ThunderGold 20:47, 24 September 2006 (UTC)

It appeared not to qualify for inclusion in an encyclopedia by our notability guidelines. Kusma (討論) 07:13, 25 September 2006 (UTC)

Non-notable band deletion

Hi... Thanks for the encouragement. I'll remember to make use of edit summaries in the future. What content do you suggest for the edit summary? Regarding Glass Casket, as with the rest of the bands, I didn't put them forward for speedy deletion because the band was non-notable: according to the guidelines, "failing to satisfy the notability guidelines is not a criterion for speedy deletion." I put them forward because the article doesn't make a claim about their notability -- "does not assert the importance or significance of the subject" -- which is a criterion according to the template --Rrburke 17:26, 24 September 2006 (UTC)

A very good edit summaries is "suggest speedy deletion per WP:CSD#A7" but also shorter forms such as "suggest deletion" or "speedy delete" are good, and even "del" or "sd" is better than nothing. Glass Casket's claim of two albums seemed (to me) to satisfy the "Has released two or more albums on a major label or one of the more important indie labels (i.e. an independent label with a history of more than a few years and a roster of performers, many of which are notable)" clause of WP:MUSIC, and so I thought the article should not be deleted without a discussion. I have no strong opinion on whether it should stay or not. Kusma (討論) 17:39, 24 September 2006 (UTC)

See User:John Reid/Obscure bands. John Reid 18:08, 24 September 2006 (UTC)

OK, thanks... so a single album with no other supporting notability claim (like charting) is not itself an assertion of importance or significance -- that right? --Rrburke 18:56, 24 September 2006 (UTC)

More or less, although I am sure there are exceptions (like some obscure band that started a trend with a single album and became famous for that later). Use your common sense, don't rely too much on written guidelines. Kusma (討論) 07:14, 25 September 2006 (UTC)

Timeline of Irish history

Am filling in said years, and adding more. Also hope to fill in any red links within said stubs, and add more as time goes by. Patience, please! Fergananim 22:58, 24 September 2006 (UTC)

AfD nominated towns

Hi. I would like to call your attention to the user page of M8v2, just in case you didn't notice. I believe that this user should be kept under close monitoring, his/her nominations might be a subtle form of vandalism. Best regards.--Húsönd 20:04, 25 September 2006 (UTC)

I've seen it. The user's talk page is still on my watchlist, I'll see if he gets warned for anything unusual. I haven't checked all his contributions, but will still assume good faith for a little while. Thanks for the note and happy editing, Kusma (討論) 20:45, 25 September 2006 (UTC)

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