User talk:A. B./July 2007

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lang.arabe.free.fr

Hello, I am François, thanks a lot for your answer, I understand your explanation. I just wanted my sister to be listened when I put a link on my Arabic page. It was the only advertisement on my personal website, I removed it now. I am happy you appreciate her voice, thanks, I think Hélène would be happy too. If you want to say her directly you can send her a little message on :

http://helenepince.free.fr http://www.myspace.com/helenepince

Best regards from Toulouse (FRANCE).
—The preceding unsigned comment was added by 82.226.48.111 (talk • contribs) 00:46, 10 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

ja:User:kurihaya

Good evening, A.B. Thank you for your message about User:MartinRe‎'s absence. I would like to send him an e-mail through en.wikipedia. I might have to create my account at en.wikipedia. But I shoud do so since I use his image file at wikimedia commons and ja.wikipedia. Thank you again. --ja:User:kurihaya 09:13, 10 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Email

you should have one! Ryan Postlethwaite 21:57, 19 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

User:A. B./Sandbox10/fr.wikipedia open proxies (11001 to 12000)

Hi, User:A. B./Sandbox10/fr.wikipedia open proxies (11001 to 12000) states that 87.102.48.193 is an open proxy (Group 1138, No. 10). It is actually a school IP not an open proxy. Joshua Issac 11:47, 20 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Joshua, you can take this to WP:OP; they have a section for removing IP addresses from the open proxy list. However, before any suggestion of an open proxy came up, this shared IP was already a good candidate for a very, very long block, given its history of extensive, persistent vandalism. I suggest leaving it blocked while allowing editing per the instructions you left on the page.

I'm not an admin -- I just hosted that page as a convenience to others -- so there's not much I can do.

Good catch on the not-a-proxy issue. It looks like you're off to a good start around here. --A. B. ^(talk) 16:55, 21 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

TinyURL

At this post, you indicate that "As a matter of policy, domains such as tinyurl.com are routinely blacklisted since they not only can be used innocently as URL shorteners but also as a means of bypassing our spam blacklist." I have a 394 character link I need to post. Wikipedia chops it off at 314 characters, which ruins the link. My legitimate use of tinyurl.com is being blocked. Please let me know how I can make my long URL usable? -- Jreferee ^(Talk) 16:33, 21 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I did not know MediaWiki's software did this. I'd say by all means, take this to MediaWiki talk:Spam-whitelist, explaining there what you just said above. I'm not an admin, or I'd whitelist it now myself. --A. B. ^(talk) 16:38, 21 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks. I'll look into it. -- Jreferee ^(Talk) 04:48, 22 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Despite travelling around

Thank you for the assistance there. --Van helsing 17:55, 21 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Blacklisted link?

What do you mean? —Thernlund ^{(Talk | Contribs)} 17:20, 30 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Rather, I know what you mean. But as near as I can tell, that URL isn't on the blacklist. —Thernlund ^{(Talk | Contribs)} 17:29, 30 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

It's listed for blacklisting -- it's not been blacklisted yet (there's usually a delay of a few hours or days). I wanted to disable the live hyperlink by stripping the "http://" before blacklisting took effect and locked up the page from editing. In this case, the link was not spammed but added in good faith by someone other than the spammer. --A. B. ^(talk) 18:42, 30 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

PS Thanks for fixing my user page! Section spacing has given me fits and your change is very welcome.

I see. Alright then. And your welcomed. —Thernlund ^{(Talk | Contribs)} 19:36, 30 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Local blacklisting

Thanks, I updated the talkpage with a rationale and some information. Seeing how the local page doesn't have a strong process around it I wasn't sure exactly where to document it. I wouldn't take a bet on the individual adding this showing up to request removal. I suspect after a series of SPA's show up on my talkpage to accuse me of being a satanist and atheist, they will get around to contesting this.
Thanks also for the note about meta adminship. Honestly I've never really thought about it and being how I've never actually edited Meta, I'm not sure I'd be quite ready for sysop duties there at this time... not that I think I would ruin anything, but I wouldn't be much of a boon right now either. If it is a standing offer though, I might be inclined to take you up on it in a few months, after I got a bit more familiar with meta. Thanks for the offer!--Isotope23 ^talk 19:28, 30 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks!

Hi A.B., thanks for the support on my RFA. I'm looking forward to it! --AW 15:28, 31 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]