User talk:Samuel Blanning/Sandbox/Header

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Archive (2-Sep-05 - 23-Mar-06) Our Chive (22-Mar-06 - 5-May-06) I Have Arch semi-protect other half of this conversation is at User talk:Lucy-marie i am semi protecting articles to prevent vandalism before it happens not after it has happened i personally thin prevention is better than cure so if we can discourage vandalism and protect vulnerable pages from vandalism i think we should protect them from vandalism also can you delete the broken picture on the lancing college page please i thank you for this help and information. so i request that gordon brown and john prescott be protected from vandalism GA spam on featured template hi, i see that the GA spam has been put back in Template:featured despite objections from yourself and i. this seems to be the way the GA project works: boldly putting something into a page that doesnt want it, then claiming consensus is required to *remove* it again (consensus is never required by these GA guys apparently to put it there in the first place). this is exactly the same behaviour as witnessed on the attempt to create an article space "good article" star, which i & raul654 finally managed to have deleted (a huge effort since they had already spammed a 1000 articles with it), and on the Community Portal where this non-policy wikiproject has pride of place - its apparently far more important than any of the other dozens of collaborations! they even had the cheek to remove the "non-policy process" template from the top of their project pages claiming they now had "enough support to be policy" - this is despite clear consensus on the talk page that its NOT policy. an attempt to put it back was quickly removed. as an admin, would you be so kind as to unlock the featured template and remove the GA spam? i'm really fed up with fighting these GA spam battles everywhere, its quite tiring. why do they have to constantly spread their GA spam everywhere? hope you can help! Zzzzz 09:45, 15 May 2006 (UTC) As I've made my position in the dispute clear, and have reverted the template myself, it would be improper for me to unprotect it or to revert it (even though I am capable of doing so). However, when it is unprotected, I will revert Locke again. It is worth noting that Locke is undergoing an ArbCom case where the Arbcom have already found that he has edit warred in templatespace (not just on this one), and will be banned for a month after the case closes and put on revert parole. The fact that he'll be unable to revert doesn't make his opinions wrong, of course, but if no-one else joins his side, it shows that the 'consensus' he refers to is very weak. As I've said, I personally believe many 'merge to x' results at AfD are made with little concern for the welfare of 'x', and for that reason a consensus at the merge target's talk page overrides a consensus at TfD. --Sam Blanning(talk) 10:24, 15 May 2006 (UTC) thanks. i agree the TFD result has little meaning here. Zzzzz 10:32, 15 May 2006 (UTC) Celebrities from less priviledged Countries help needed found someone that help me on here..its usually confusing for me to find my way around. i am a new wikipedian Stillwaters111 12:00, 15 May 2006 (UTC) and i need some help. i am currently doing a research concerning the African fashion and life style( concentrating mainly on the modelling industry) and have decided to use the wikipedia medium to help introduce most of these 'non google hit' international models. Due to the lack of development and information system most of these celebrities are not very well known in the west. i uploaded an information about steph mekwuye one of the international models and it was immediately submmited for deletion. There are many more to come, but i am not encouraged by wikipedia users. will the lack of information about the happenings in the third world countries also deprive them from the free encyclopedia? i hope you can help in this situatuion stillwaters111 12:00, 15 May 2006 (UTC) If there are no reliable sources available, then as an encyclopaedia we can't have an article on them, I'm afraid. Everything has to be verified somewhere. I noticed that in the AfD on Mekwuye you said "found references on google" - I would suggest putting them in the article and alerting AfD to that fact. --Sam Blanning(talk) 12:15, 15 May 2006 (UTC) stillwaters111 is Steph Mekwuye, judging by her user page, so this message is perhaps a tiny bit disingenuous? · rodii · 13:57, 15 May 2006 (UTC) master of all i heard you sir,blanning Wikipedia:Deletion review/Myg0t (second) Hi, I notice you've had a say in previous discussions about deletions/undeletions for the myg0t article, I'd just like to inform you that another such discussion is occurring now, so if you'd like to voice your opinion, for or against undeletion of the article, feel free to post your thoughts.[1] - USER-cacophony 20:17, 15 May 2006 (UTC) Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of proper nouns containing a bang I've replied on the DRV page, sorry about the delay, things went a little crazy. Please let me know if you have any questions -- Tawker 01:06, 16 May 2006 (UTC) Pinkboy7 Contrary to what you wrote at AN/I, this most definitely is a vandal (a returning sockpuppet, to be precise). Previously was Stoneboy3 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · nuke contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log) and Fearboy3 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · nuke contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log), also tried to register Painboy3 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · nuke contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log) but was blocked. In addition to messing with crime-related articles, he also does pagemove vandalism (and never, ever responds to talk messages). Do not be fooled by the "clueless newbie" disguise, this is nothing more than a somewhat novel vandalism methodology, probably designed to delay blocking. -- Curps 04:22, 16 May 2006 (UTC) Thanks for letting me know and blocking him. --Sam Blanning(talk) 08:11, 16 May 2006 (UTC)