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Welcome!

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Here is my reply to the question you asked on the Wikipedia:Help desk: Just add {{attention}} to the top of the page. Though not a big red box, but a big blue one. If you believe the content is false and not represents a NPOV, {{TotallyDisputed}} might be appropriate. There are also other templates, see the See also section of this page. Henrik 09:04, 15 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

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Your recent edits

Thanks for the help. I'm new at this, but trying to be a good Wikipedian.— Preceding unsigned comment added by THINMAN (talk • contribs)

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NumCrun

no it's correct you are wrong — Preceding unsigned comment added by Numcrun (talk • contribs)

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Thanks

Thanks for the help! — Preceding unsigned comment added by Stevven1 (talk • contribs)

No Worries! --Deon555^talk_Review 02:11, 13 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Re: St. Joe's vandal

I've seen more and more vandalism coming from the .14 IP recently, and frankly I think it's got to the point where blocking isn't sufficient. I'm looking for a 2O from you, and some names / contacts at the college, because I think it's time its taken to AbRep. I'm a investigator/contactor there, and would be happy to handle the case, and theres definetly sufficient evidence: 14 blocks in ~7 months. So yeah, tell me what you think, and if you think it's a viable option, tell me who I should contact. Thanks Mike, and hopefully, if it's blocked, we can get a soft block + disabled account creation, so legit users aren't effected. Ta, --Deon555^talk_Review 06:52, 13 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I was wondering when you'd ask this :-), so here is my entire backround knowledge that I have gathered from the whole saga (and I apologise in advance if this is too long)

Ok, ok, from the beginning. I know for a start that the entire range (61.69.12.0 - 61.69.15.255) is registered to the Catholic Education office, Melbourne, the problem area is mainly 61.69.12.11/20, which appears to be the range used by their proxy servers (the ones all the kids edit though...) Also of note is that those same proxy servers are used not only by St Joseph's, but also by a large number of schools in the area (Likely all the schools who use the Catholic Education office for internet, which I understand to be quite a few). At least one of the schools had their administrator request permanent blocking, which I discussed with CSCWEM here after I found myself unable to edit as a result. Contact details for the office can be found in the relevant WHOIS data (in the 'e-mail' field), and as for the abuse report, here is a suggestion to have them see how severe the problem is:

Add up the total number of blocks, and the total time of these blocks, from all the block logs in that range, then include in the e-mail "The abuse has resulted in a total of x blocks spanning y hours, and if the abuse is continued, editing privilege may be permanently withdrawn" - botha are big numbers I'm sure (for convinience) Here are the links:[1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10]

Don't forget to tell me how it goes :D. Michael Billington (talk • contribs) 07:34, 13 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

hi

hello how r u???? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 195.93.21.37 (talk • contribs)

Hi! Not bad, yourself? Also: please remember to always sign your posts, by typing: --~~~~ which automagically transforms into the date and time like this ---> --Deon555^talk_Review 22:52, 14 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

15 October 2006

UR A LOSER!

Um.. okay... Thanks :) Please rememeber to sign your posts with ~~~~ — Deon555^talk_Review 00:56, 15 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Hey Deon, you know you're doing a great job when the trolls drop by to leave a [sarcasm font] witty [/sarcasm font] insult. :) Sarah Ewart (Talk) 04:01, 17 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Lol, it must be good when Trolls know my name :) — Deon555^talk_Review 04:07, 17 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Sonofagun...

Thank you SO much for the Barnstar! I promised myself that I'd do at least one new article a week and clean up at least one article a day. Ah, but the vandal fighting...very refreshing during lulls at work. :) Really, thanks much for the attaboy. Much obliged.

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Thank you, thank you and thank you. This is so thankless at times. - Lucky 6.9 01:39, 17 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

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Request for Name Change

Hi! I recently added a request for a name change from Cory K (boring) to Bellito (cool.) It says under my request, "Bureaucrat: User has 131 edits, and target Username not taken." or something like that. However, when I try to log in with Bellito as the username and my same password, it won't let me! What's going on?...

The preceeding statement in a nutshell:

I don't understand why my proposed username that was seemingly accepted fails to work, please help me and thank you

So, uhh... How do I know when my username has changed, then? Will I get an email or whatever?

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Thanks for explaining the whole username change procedure! Cory K 02:09, 22 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Helpme!

{{helpme}} No I don't really need help.. but don't remove it for a bit please. THanks! :) — Deon555^talk_Review 02:37, 22 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]
ps i've told the guys at bootcamp :) {{helpme}} -- again.. I dont need help :) I'll remove it it one minute — Deon555^talk_Review 02:10, 23 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Bernd Stange

You changed references to Stange to Strange. Please note the spelling was correct in the first place. --Hack 08:54, 23 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

The References

Hi there! I finally figured out what was screwing around with the references. It was a really stupid mistake by me. I'll show you here below.

This is what I was doing (problem bolded):

<ref>[http://www.cnn.com/2006/US/10/22/amnesia.identified/index.html | Example text]</ref>

When I should have been doing:

<ref>http://www.cnn.com/2006/US/10/22/amnesia.identified/index.html Example text</ref>

I shouldn't have put a | in anywhere. Sorry for the trouble last night. Yours, Philip Gronowski ^Contribs 20:06, 23 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Carnegie of Finhaven

Deon555,

thanks for the advice. On the help search, I followed your suggestion but the search is returning very few articles. For example I searched for 'stub' and was expected 5 or so pages to come up where the word 'stub' was in the text.

On the templates I really thought there would be a list of pages like User:Haseler/template (perhaps tailored for different subjects).

Ideally I want to put { {new article|history } } hit "save page" and hey presto I have an entirely new article with all the subheadings etc.

The other problem I have is working out whether or how I should add categories. Is there a way to search categories?

--Mike 23:03, 23 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

email

Deon555, I copied across your text on email - it's now missing! And I notice there's a change on your page - I hope I haven't done something stupid!

--Mike 01:04, 24 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Helpme tags

... are not answered by bots, but by human editors. Please don't abuse them. -- Merope 02:34, 24 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I apologize for the misunderstanding. You might want to make the test page a bit clearer -- at first glance, it looks like you're just being silly. I understand now that this is not the case, and I apologize for the message. -- Merope

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Hi - thanks for your notes on this page. I wonder if you've seen User:DumbBOT/UsernameChange? This automatically generates the information which you are compiling, and I usually check it before changing any usernames. If you've got any suggestions for improvements to it, I'm sure that would also be appreciated. Warofdreams talk

hello

yes i ahve a question. some guy by the name of elmer clark is deleting my post of an author i posted information about due to certain critera. however the critera he states are incorrect, he himself is incorrect and does not know what he is talking about. i would like it to stop, or for someone to tell me exactly what needs to be changed so it can be posted. thank you

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Thank you

Hi Deon, thank you for your quick response and assistance with my amateur radio problem :-) Roaming27 05:46, 25 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

No worries :) — Deon555^talk_Review 05:55, 25 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Did I forget to mention...

...that I've been back for a few weeks? I just did an anon edit via my home IP and saw the silly misunderstanding we had back in July. Saw you were in; thought I'd drop by and say good night. Off to hit the sack.

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New Article temple

Deon555,

Yesterday we briefly talked about a template that magically filled in a black article, I think I may have made a good start, and I'd appreciate you having a look:

Open up a blank document.

If you want a document with lots of comments enter:

{{subst:NA}}

if without comments enter:

{{subst:NA|0}}

save the page - then open it again to see what is there! --Mike 00:02, 26 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Your RFA

Any idea why any time I try to contribute, I get #REDIRECT Request for ddminship/Deon555? Where did "ddminship" come from? When I try to go there directly, I'm redirected to your RFA entry. WTF!? --Ginkgo100 ^{talk · e@} 03:30, 26 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]