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Vandal Proof

We're getting the user list is corrupt message again. Can you help? Stephen Kirrage ^{talk - contribs} 13:51, 24 May 2007 (UTC)

• Could you help by telling VP I am a nice guy? Just joking, trying to run the vandals of wiki but am not able to. It say that the "user file is corrupt" (or is it list?) and I need to "contact a moderator." Honestly I do not know what this means but maybe you can help.Nomen Nescio^{Gnothi seauton} 13:53, 24 May 2007 (UTC)

 Done fixed by User:Betacommand. Prodego ^talk 19:44, 24 May 2007 (UTC)

Block?

I am offical begging that you look at my page. Some non-member has been adding comments after my political views. For on example I have "Pro-Life", and the he adds next to "Pro Fasctist". Some one else has undone his edits, but this has happened twice.Please look at my user pages history, and see the edits he made. Could you please get back to me soon, and suggest what I should do. Like comments from other users, etc.

Politics rule 11:39, 25 May 2007 (UTC)

Thank you for responding to my concern. Why I put block up there, I have no clue. I followed advice given to me, and warned him. We'll see what happens.

Thanks,=)

Politics rule 20:46, 25 May 2007 (UTC)

Edits

When you look at your edit count, what do you look for. Main space, or number of unique pages? Politics rule 13:00, 26 May 2007 (UTC)

• Thanks.

Politics rule 16:35, 26 May 2007 (UTC)

My RfA

Hi Prodego. I'd like to thank you for your support of my RfA. It was closed at surprising 75/0/0, so I'm an admin now. MaxSem 22:23, 25 May 2007 (UTC)

Talk page deletion

I am removing references to my old username (which contains my real name) The thread that contains iit will also be changed and restored. Viridae^Talk 03:48, 29 May 2007 (UTC)

VP edit was done for the same reason. Viridae^Talk 03:53, 29 May 2007 (UTC)

VP Approval

Hi there. Just wondering why you approved ?asil, when there is not even an account under that name. Perhaps the name was entered incorrectly on the "Recently Approved" on User:AmiDaniel/VP/Approval?

Chrisch^Talk 09:32, 27 May 2007 (UTC)

It is really User:%D0%92asil (Вasil), the user was correctly entered into the user list, which is seperate from the recently approved section of the request page. However, I did later have to remove Вasil, since every subsequent approval was renaming Вasil to ?asil on the real user list. Prodego ^talk 15:12, 27 May 2007 (UTC)

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Hey

Hey can we talk later i need to ask you some questions ill be on everyday in the summer starting june 4th. The Dwarf_King 12:45, 29 May 2007 (UTC)

Military of Albania

Hi, could you please protect the article Military of Albania? Gon4z is at it again: misquoting his own sources, putting in POVs and calling me racist... Anyway: I continually keep an eye on his edits to spot his sometimes outrageous edits like: "a Orthodox crusade on the Muslims of Kosova" is his reason for an increased interest in Islam in Albania today. Users User:Sthenel, User:Bluewings, User:PANONIAN, User:Denizz and User:Reinoutr had problems with him lately, but noting on the scale of what User:MrMacMan or I experienced. However as said before I keep an eye on him and to avoid another edit war I suggest protecting the article Military of Albania. Thanks and best regards, noclador 11:18, 30 May 2007 (UTC)

As you know User:Gon4z has an incredible history of vandalism, insulting other users, 3rr edit wars, lies, unsourced edits,… some of the former bans he got can be seen:

here, here, here, here and here

Now he is back and has stopped insulting other users; but I kept an eye on his edits and they were all unsourced, POV, disruptive, erroneous and/or plain lies. Some examples from the last hour (!):

• [1] He left the changed sentence unfinished and has no sources for his edit.
• [2] The source he gives has no information about the topic he writes about and every other editor disagrees with his edits- but he states that other editors additions are “vadalism”.
• [3] He deleted 10 lines without sources-just stating that the other user’s additions are “vandalism”.
• [4] He changed the number of Albanians killed from 10.000 to “tens of thousands” BUT that was after he inserted the number 10.000, which was after he had deleted the number of civilian deaths and before that the number of dead Albanians in the article was given as 4300.
• [5] He removed a very well sourced data (4 sources!) with some of his unsourced numbers and inserted the following: “The war (in Kosovo) had a big influence in the growth of Islam as the world saw that as a Orthodox crusade on the Muslims of Kosova where the Serbian Orthodox people tried to expel all Albanians from Kosova, over 550,000 were forced out of Kosova and 20,000 were murdered, also the backing of the KLA by most Muslim countries and the 3,000 Mujahideen’s who volunteered to fight in Kosova helped widen Islam to the Albanian people.” The reason he gives for his edits is “Reverted vandalism”.
• [6] With his edit the the number of Albanians in Turkey suddenly jumped from 50,000 to 5,000,000 people. This time his reason to inflate is a bit more colourful: “This stupid vandalism has to stop, I ahve sourced all of my edits…” but no source is given at all by him.
• Furthermore he has returned to reedit his “Albania is ready for war with Greece or Yugoslavia” stance into the article Military of Albania…

In my opinion Gon4z’s only purpose is to disrupt the hard and good work of Wikipedia editors and to push a nationalistic Pro-Albanian stance. I haven’t seen one useful edit by him! I.e. the edits he made in the last days to Greek diaspora, Islam in Serbia, Montenegrins, Greeks, List of countries by the number of billionaires, Muslims by nationality, Religion in Albania and Islam in Austria were all reverted by other editors. I suggest banning him for a long period of time (weeks at minimum), as there are much more important things to do than to clean up behind Gon4z. noclador 01:16, 1 June 2007 (UTC)

This morning he continued and made an extraordinary edits to Turkish Armed Forces and Turkish Army: doubling the military expenditures and giving as source the official site of the ALBANIAN Military: a site that doesn't even mention Turkey! and in good tradition he has once more reverted every other article to his version and calling all other edits "vandalism". Prodego should I report him to the Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents or could you please deal with it? noclador 09:47, 1 June 2007 (UTC)

I agree with what noclador has already said. Goz4z's contributions are not productive at all. - Sthenel 10:07, 1 June 2007 (UTC)

I will look into this. Prodego ^talk 16:06, 1 June 2007 (UTC)

I'am discussing all edits but your little friends who keep complaining like little kids do not discus but run to you for everything, I mean just look at their edits they come to every Albanian article and lower number and figures and other parts to vandalize articles, they edit articles with out a source and say that its OK because the article needs clean up but do not present no source and that is not cleaning up every edit I have made is sourced but they don’t even take the time to read it I have discuses but they do not wish to participate, I don’t run to you or any admins just because I disagree with some one like these two guys do, I present sources and facts they don’t they COME TO EVERY ALBANIAN ARTICLE AND EDIT NUMBERS JUST BECAUSE THEY FIND IT HARD TO COMPRAHEND THEM.Gon4z 20:05, 1 June 2007 (UTC)

He also has vandalized the Serbian Air Force articles by posting unsourced information and reverting any edits from other people who are trying to put sourced information in the article. He even has reverted minor spelling corrections too. He doesn't right with good english grammar, and I hope this user understands that he should be more careful and thoughtful when editing articles. Thanks people. Zastavafan76 00:00, 2 June 2007 (UTC)

Here is a comment he made on April 20th that explains his insistence to insert his "Orthodox people are on a Crusade against Muslims" stance. He is also deleting paragraphs he doesn't like from talk pages! and now a bit more of his insulting stuff [7], [8], [9], [10]

I collected the worst insults here below:

• "you need to take you head out of your A** and smell the roses things are not what you like them to be just because some of you Albanians in Albania want to be European and become AMERICAS SLAVES AND PUPPETS"
• "POLITICIANS have a hand up their back sides"
• "so be quiet ignorant KID"
• "Your brain is clearly not advanced enough to comprehend the truth that's why you keep repeating you self and DENYING evidence that if served to you on a platter that's a sign of defeat" noclador 00:30, 2 June 2007 (UTC)
• "these things your saying are bullshit propaganda"
• "I can see you an (scuse my language) American ASS licker"
• "But I have no intention in continuing to fight with you because you are pretty Ignorant and a Super nationalist but don't forget not all of our people are like you" This is it- I suggest an indefinite ban! noclador 00:30, 2 June 2007 (UTC)

I am aware of this, and do not consider it acceptable. I believe I have made this clear to Gon4z, and his/her compliance will be appropriately enforced. Prodego ^talk 01:18, 2 June 2007 (UTC)

I have also noticed Gonz4's inappropriate actions here on Wikipedia, he does not source his claims and worse speaks of heavily biased subjects on very sensitive matters which cause offense to others. It is clear that Gonz4 is not mature enough to follow the rules of Wikipedia. I leave you to ponder and deal with this matter as best as you see fit I trust your judgment will be more than fair. Regards Bluewings 22:16 1, June 2007 (UTC)

Hey Prodego

What should be done about this? This can be considered a personal attack, right? What is the procedure for reprimanding this user? Please explain. Thanks, - Bagel7^{What ya say,} _{what ya say,} ^{what ya say,} _what??? 02:28, 31 May 2007 (UTC)

Turkish military budget

That edit is fully soured with two links from world fact book it satates taht its spends 5.3% of its GDP which is 358.2 billion now do the maths 5.3% of 358,200,000,000 = 18.9... million which is pretty correct

sry i put the wrong link there i will edit now with the correct link tha was ment for anotehr article

Congratulations

saying two things. one - archive your talk page. two - congratulations on finding and deleting my rabbit green page and successfully restoring the Rabbit calicivirus page. it just shows that you really cant put hoaxes on wikipedia no matter how hard you try to avoid the scrutineers - User:Mr Facts

Wait...

Since when can you blank your own talk page? I don't have any immediate examples, but I've seen numerous users get into trouble with administrators for that reason. Are you sure he's allowed to do this? - Bagel7^T's,C's,A's 07:24, 5 June 2007 (UTC)

Alright, just checking, and I'll get out of that user's hair. - Bagel7^T's,C's,A's 01:31, 8 June 2007 (UTC)

Free Republic . . . and BRYAN . . . again

Thanks for the advice. I disagree. The 3rr prohibits the reversion of a single editor's work. "A revert means undoing the actions of another editor" The Freepers are guilty of violation of the 3R by proxy. So far, Fredomaintfree (a Bryan sockpuppet) has reverted me [#1], I reverted him, he reverted me[#2], I reverted him, and then proxy RWR (second editor) reverted me[#3], I reverted him, then third editor reverted me[#4], I replied with new content.

No attempt by the freepers has been made to discuss changes. "When in doubt, do not revert; instead, engage in dispute resolution or ask for administrative assistance."

Check your facts. Thank you for your watchfulness.Eschoir 02:38, 7 June 2007 (UTC)