User talk:Alphachimp/Archive 10

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WP:AWB

Would you mind terribly clearing the list of users awaiting approval to use AWB? The list is now seven long, and some have been waiting for a while.

Your services would be much appreciated! Happy Hogmanay and have a great new year!

Cheers and regards,
Anthonycfc 01:51, 1 January 2007 (UTC)

Actually, 6 long... I've done the approving and rejecting and you're approved. Cheers! alphachimp. 02:03, 1 January 2007 (UTC)

Lol

Sorry. :/ 71.229.138.243 05:31, 1 January 2007 (UTC)

No EXCEPTIONS: Citations are needed

After reviewing the copy under Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, including the additional discussion board, especially Milo's helpful blurb about truth and citations, there speculative information on the page that needs a citation. No EXCEPTION. If Wikipedia is going to have participants put that Rowlings or anyone else "said," there had better be a citation. END OF STORY! —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 66.91.80.52 (talk) 11:31, 1 January 2007 (UTC).

And you're going to accomplish that by adding "(do we know this? Has it been cited or has Rowling said Voldermore will end?)" to the article? Use {{citationneeded}} alphachimp. 11:33, 1 January 2007 (UTC)

Yes. I think so. It is calling people on their writing. Obviously you had the time to take it off, so you have the time to go find the accurate information.

Citations are needed: NO EXCEPTION!

After reviewing the copy under Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, including the additional discussion board, especially Milo's helpful blurb about truth and citations on Wikipedia, there's speculative information on the page that needs citations. No EXCEPTION. If Wikipedia is going to have participants put that Rowlings or anyone else "said," there had better be a citation. END OF STORY! As well, there needs to be citation that Rowlings has confirmed that Voldermore is going to meet his end; otherwise, this introduction is speculation about the plot and apart of "fan" discussion too. If you are registered on this site, please go tell whom ever about the problem. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 66.91.80.52 (talk) 11:39, 1 January 2007 (UTC).

You are not demonstrating good civility. Please calm down. I'll tag the article as needing references. Thanks. alphachimp. 11:41, 1 January 2007 (UTC)

I'm not acting civil? But erasure and censoring is civil?

You were defacing the article. If you're going to question our accuracy and sources, do it by appropriate means. alphachimp. 11:44, 1 January 2007 (UTC)

Ah . . . Please tell me what those means are since I am new to this . . .

OK, check out WP:NOR, WP:RS, and WP:V. They should give you a pretty good idea of what we're looking for. Obviously, a lot of our articles have a long way to go, but that's the nature of this project. As for specific tags, {{citationneeded}} is always a good option, as is {{unreferenced}} (I added that to the article). Let me know if you have any further questions. alphachimp. 11:56, 1 January 2007 (UTC)

Michaell Jiminez

It's a lock lock lock, it's a lock lock lock, speah speah —Brian Michael Barbera 22:18, 1 January 2007 (UTC)

User talk:82.148.97.69

Hello!

I noticed that you semi-protected User talk:82.148.97.69. I have created a archive for old comments, User talk:82.148.97.69/Archive 1, in order to preserve a record of what has been said without cluttering up the present talk page.

Sincerely, Oden 18:33, 2 January 2007 (UTC)

OK, that looks good to me. Thanks for doing that. Regards, alphachimp. 18:43, 2 January 2007 (UTC)

vandalism-Renaissance

Someone has been vandalizing 'Renaissance.' I did my best to repair it. I see your link is somewhere in the history, but can;t figure out exactly where the vandalism comes from. I will give it another read. But until then can you help out.Brosi 19:55, 2 January 2007 (UTC)

It looks like you got it all. Check out WP:REVERT for more information about reverting vandalism. Let me know if you have further questions. alphachimp. 19:59, 2 January 2007 (UTC)

Thanks...

..for reverting my user page in my absence. Nice to see that even anonymous IP vandals don't take a break over the New Year period. Season's greetings to you, and thanks again! Cheers! Budgiekiller 20:07, 2 January 2007 (UTC)

my pleasure :). alphachimp. 21:15, 2 January 2007 (UTC)

Vandal report, question

How many hours after a vandal vandalizes am I allowed to report him to WP:AIV? I put up this one vandal several times today but he was not blocked. He reached final warning on December 12, 2006 and then vandalized 3 more articles today (I gave him a t4 before I checked the history on his check page; there I discovered that he blanked his talk page history with all previous warnings on it). Is there a time limit for how late I can report him? Just wondering.S h a r k f a c e 2 1 7 22:02, 2 January 2007 (UTC)

Oh, and he can be found at User talk:64.33.143.164. S h a r k f a c e 2 1 7 22:03, 2 January 2007 (UTC)

Wow. I have no idea why he wasn't blocked. I think the strategies and investigations of admins differ. I would have reported him after the 2nd instance of vandalism. He's now blocked. As for a hard and fast formula, I'm not quite sure we can apply one. Every vandal is different in severity. Extremely severe vandals should be reported immediately (image vandalism, for instance), while those saying 'hi' through our articles should get a little bit more lead time. I realize this isn't helping very much. Just make sure they get warned first. alphachimp. 01:25, 3 January 2007 (UTC)

minor

minor it is. I never know who might object to 'minor' so I don't think about using it. Hmains 04:24, 3 January 2007 (UTC)

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Why is the Ip talk page for the whole of Qatar protected. You do remember its for 800,000 people don't you?--Rasillon 09:51, 3 January 2007 (UTC)

It is linked from several extremely high traffic sites and there have been repeated attempts to introduce misinformation to the page. I made the decision after careful consideration and consultation with other administrators both on and off wiki. alphachimp. 09:53, 3 January 2007 (UTC)

Re: Ok, the users are still able to create accounts anyway, but I can see the vandals will also do this, and because of it being the Ip of an entire country, when the vandals are caught, they will be straight back with sockpuppets, I don't think this is doing to come out the way wikipedia and the admins want to.--Rasillon 10:02, 3 January 2007 (UTC)

I think you might not understand. I protected the page, meaning that anonymous and newly registered users can't edit it. The actual block, which was in effect for less than 12 hours, did not restrict account creation. The block is no longer in effect. alphachimp. 10:06, 3 January 2007 (UTC)

vandal

Deal with this Ip, blatant vandal, he's had too many warnings, and hasn't taken any notice. User talk:194.170.10.119--Rasillon 10:33, 3 January 2007 (UTC)

It looks like CSCWEM dealt with him before I had a chance. Thanks for the report, though. alphachimp. 08:53, 4 January 2007 (UTC)

Your Message

You left me the following message:

Thank you for experimenting with the page Anno Domini on Wikipedia. Your test worked, and it has been reverted or removed. Please use the sandbox for any other tests you may want to do. Take a look at the welcome page to learn more about contributing to our encyclopedia. alphachimp 20:23, 24 December 2006 (UTC)

I did not edit any pages. I have a dynamic IP address and it may have been someone else. You may want to keep that in mind next time. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.5.81.175 (talk • contribs)

Uh, ok. alphachimp. 19:41, 3 January 2007 (UTC)

500 edits

How do I check when I have 500 mainspace edits?

--Gramscis cousin 08:47, 4 January 2007 (UTC)

Go to this page. When you see a link for your "next 500", you have 500 mainspace edits. Hope that helps! Let me know if you have any further questions. alphachimp. 08:53, 4 January 2007 (UTC)

Final Fantasy Theory Page Creation?

Hi, I'm a new user to Wikipedia, and my name is Eileen. I found a whole bunch of fan theory Rinoa is Ultimecia stuff and I think we should create an entire page devoted to Final Fantasy theories and make it so everyone knows the theories. What do you think? I'm unfortunately don't have an account but if you reply on your talk page I'll read it and repond back.67.142.130.48 09:15, 30 December 2006 (UTC) Eileen]]

Hi Eileen. It's easy to create an account. Just follow the link in the top right corner of the screen. Creating an account is easy and requires no personal information. As for creating a page about theories, I would suggest you don't make a page about anything bordering on original research and without verifiable sources. A lot of such pages are deleted. Remember that Wikipedia is not a free webhost and content (even "useful" content) is often deleted for failing to meet our standards. Hope that helps-- Let me know if you have any further questions. alphachimp. 16:40, 30 December 2006 (UTC)

Hi, alphachimp, thanks for writing back so quick. I just asked that because I've found a lot of original research around the Talk: Ultimecia page about Rinoa being Ultimecia and it brought in fansites to support it. So I'm going to erase that part of the article I hope no one minds it. That's what got me thinking about it, actually I was thinking about creating that page so people could talk about it. Apparently their are alot of Final Fantasy theories without actual research and I wanted to address this issue on a page (actually a talk page) like what I telling you about where we could discuss this original research and analyze it.

About the Rinoa/Ultimecia theory, could you tell people not to discuss that on Wikipedia? I've read stuff written about it repeatedly and everytime it fails to have significant proof to back it up. Personally, I think it's not true but not everyone agrees. What do you think about it personally? When I've read articles about it they said it's fairly widely known. What's the truth? (In fact I wrote an reply to it using information I found in FF8. Check out Talk: Ultimecia page if your interested. In fact, I found of people wrote complaints like mine on the page itself. I would really appreciate it if you or anyone else gives me feed back.)

I have one last question. I found some people like the official pictures of FF8, but what's wrong with one from in the game itself. Could anyone keep them up their?

PS. I getting an account tomorrow but not before reading your answer. (I didn't realize it was so easy so I'll follow your link:) Thanks again. -Eileen-

I would suggest bringing up the issue of the original research on the talk page before removing the content from the article. People fighting vandalism could take it the wrong way if you just start blanking. It never really is a good start with other editors. I'd really encourage you to talk out such changes (it looks like you're great at that, which is an excellent start as a wikipedia user). I can't really tell people not to discuss a particular theory on wikipedia. Honestly, that type of argument rarely works around here. It's easy, however, to discredit an invalid theory.

Official pictures are a sensitive area. Fairuse permits us to use images only in those cases that there are no alternative free images. There are a multitude of legal and procedural restrictions involving their use on Wikipedia. Of course, in the case of something like a game, they're fairly hard to avoid. I'd encourage you to search for any free media before even thinking about bringing in official pictures.

When you do create an account, still feel free to drop by with any questions. I hope I was able to help. Regards, alphachimp. 11:53, 1 January 2007 (UTC)

Hi, alphachimp, again. I have four questions for you. 1.) When I was talking about the Ultimecia talk page, I was gonna just erase the original research about the Rinoa/Ultimecia theory and make a note to everyone that an encyclopedia doesn't allow this kind of information. Is that acceptable? (That's what I meant about not "talking about the theory"). 2.) If I get an account will that prevent my IP Address from being blocked by other's vandalism? (I wasn't able to create an account for a two days because of this.) 3.) Would you be interested in a Talk: Final Fantasy theories page? 4.) Can you tell me what you personally think of the Rinoa/Ultimecia theory? (I've heard about it alot but I don't know how widespread it is.)

Thanks. -Eileen-

PS. Your user name is really awesome =).

Sorry for not responding sooner, Eileen. That's entirely acceptable. Make sure to use a good edit summary, otherwise people might think that you are vandalizing. I would suggest making a note of it on the talk page first. Creating an account will not prevent you from being blocked for others' vandalism unless the block is anon-only (AO). Most IP blocks now are. Anyway, if you're autoblocked (that's what happens when you can't log in with your account), you can always request an unblock using the instructions on the block page. Honestly, I know nothing about FF as a game. I really haven't had time to pursue that genre (or any genre for that matter) of game recently. Seeing as whatever observations I'd offer would be somewhat trite, I'll hold off :). Hope you don't mind. Thanks for the complement about my username...I like it a lot too :). alphachimp. 10:11, 3 January 2007 (UTC)

Hi, Alphachimp, I have a question for you. I reverted some previous changes on some pictures of FF8 articles and that ticked off some people although I didn't mean to. I still want to keep them through. What do I do? Thanks for the advice on that talk page. If you want you can check my note in the Talk: Ultimecia page, I think its ok. Tell me what you think. I didn't blank the page at all, just erased the original research. -Eileen-

You might do well checking out Wikipedia:WikiProject Final Fantasy. They're probably a lot better versed on dealing with the theories and some of the intricacies that I can't address. I think there's a little bit of a misunderstanding here (I just realized, actually). You've been removing the theories from the Talk:Ultimecia page. This is actually quite inflammatory (people don't like having their comments removed)...as talk pages are for discussing the contents of the article. I had just assumed that you were removing text from the article and placing a note on the talk page. I've restored the text. Honestly, I'm not sure there's much you can do about discussion on talk pages. A certain amount of health discussion, whether or not that violates our OR and RS standards, is totally OK. It's the article content that we're truly concerned about. The talk page is really for honing and refining the content of said article. I hope that helps. I realize this is a bit of a reversal on what I previously said, but I didn't actually have a chance to look in depth until now.

You should create that account... alphachimp. 20:35, 4 January 2007 (UTC)

Help request

This is a bit trivial but I was wondering if you might be able to help - I'm trying to remember all the articles I've created - the watchlist helpfully displays a N next to new articles but my contributions don't - is there any way of interrogating my contributions list to just pick out the main space pages I've created that weren't redirects? Cheers. --Mcginnly | Natter 16:19, 4 January 2007 (UTC)

Give this a shot. I'm not sure whether or not everything is there, but I'd assume :). alphachimp. 16:23, 4 January 2007 (UTC)

I'm afraid not - is that just using my watchlist - that seems to only expand to the last month - I've been contributing since the 21st March. --Mcginnly | Natter 17:00, 4 January 2007 (UTC)

I figured as much looking at it. Honestly, I'm not quite sure. I think NewPages might only go back by about a month or so... This is a shot in the dark, but you might want to try asking over on Wikipedia:Village pump (technical). alphachimp. 20:15, 4 January 2007 (UTC)

WP:NYCPT substitutions

I see Alphachimpbot was hard at work this morning =) Larry V (talk | contribs) 19:01, 4 January 2007 (UTC)

Comic Geek Speak: Speedy Deletion

I noticed you erased the Comic Geek Speak wikipedia page. I was wondering whom I should talk to or what can be done to get this page back, since I feel it does meet notability guidelines with the comics community. Jdotpitts 19:26, 4 January 2007 (UTC)

Speedy deletion isn't even a matter of meeting notability guidelines. It's a matter of completely failing to assert basic notability within the article. A large portion of podcasts are both non-notable and without assertions of notability within their articles. I'd be completely willing to restore Comic Geek Speak if you give me an assertion of its notability. alphachimp. 20:13, 4 January 2007 (UTC)

Request for IP Talk Page Protection

Hello Alphachimp, the IP address 81.129.206.87 continues to vandalize their talk page and remove the warnings placed on the page. May I request the page be semi-protected to further prevent the endless revert session that is going on right now? Thank you.¤~Persian Poet Gal ^(talk) 20:22, 4 January 2007 (UTC)

Absolutely. Thanks for the request...all done. :) alphachimp. 20:24, 4 January 2007 (UTC)

Hello Again...

Hello again Alphachimp, sorry to bug you once more but I think this is something you might want to take a look at...¤~Persian Poet Gal ^(talk) 21:50, 4 January 2007 (UTC)

And another image you might want to look into...¤~Persian Poet Gal ^(talk) 21:57, 4 January 2007 (UTC)

Sorry to interupt, but I deleted the images and blocked the account already. -- Gogo Dodo 21:59, 4 January 2007 (UTC)

No worries. Thanks for the message. alphachimp 23:13, 4 January 2007 (UTC)

Block to 209.18.49.25

For your 6 month block to 209.18.49.25, would it be possible if you could make it so registered users will be able to edit? Many schools and libraries in the area are using CLIU21's "services." I know that there has been a lot of vandalism coming from that IP, but if you could make it so that registered users could edit there probably wouldn't be much of a problem. It is fine if you won't unblock it...I would have just liked to have been able to edit from school or a library if I'm not home. Thanks! Mike6271 23:39, 4 January 2007 (UTC)

I've tweaked the block so you should be able to edit. Thanks for the heads up! alphachimp 02:50, 5 January 2007 (UTC)

Thank you very much! Mike6271 18:21, 5 January 2007 (UTC)

My RFA

Hey Alphachimp, just a quick word to say thanks for you strong and encouraging support in my RFA. Some of the community seem to have equated WP edits with policy understanding, which seems a little harsh, but I am pleased to see a number of fellow vandal-hunters giving me their backing. Cheers again! Budgiekiller 09:26, 5 January 2007 (UTC)

Budgiekiller, I really wouldn't support if I didn't feel what you were doing was incredibly important. Keep up the great work! alphachimp 16:40, 5 January 2007 (UTC)

Small suggestion

Alphachimp, I think you should stop banning school ipaddresses unless they vandalize. Please think about this and reply back to me. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Darko Varthenheimer (talk • contribs) 14:02, 5 January 2007 (UTC).

I don't block school IPs without a long history of vandalism. alphachimp 16:40, 5 January 2007 (UTC)

Deleting warnings from user talk pages

Where is the discussion on this? Diez2 16:22, 5 January 2007 (UTC)

Eh, I'm not quite sure. Try asking on WP:VPP. My understanding is that it's not specifically forbidden. alphachimp 16:36, 5 January 2007 (UTC)

Greetings

If indeed you have the spare time - could you please look at the sequence of vndl edits at Adam Smith with two apparent separate isp numbers- might or not be (its v late where Iam I undertsand my perception may be skewiff) the same vndl? I could be wrong easily. SatuSuro 16:34, 5 January 2007 (UTC)

I've reverted it to a previous, non-vandalized version. Thanks for the heads up. alphachimp 16:40, 5 January 2007 (UTC)

Thats ok - I just worry it seemed like they were reincarnations of yr premanent block from the other day, very similar style, sigh :( SatuSuro 16:44, 5 January 2007 (UTC)

Blocked from editing

Again, I blew it by entering the message below in the discussion area. You are absolutely right in that I should have read all policies and guidelines before doing anything on Wikipedia. I am new to it and I apologize if I have been disruptive.

You left me a message saying that I have been blocked from editing. What I did was insert external links to www.alternatefuelsworld.com in what appeared to me to be completely appropriate locations. This website is no different from a number of websites available concerning alternate fuels listed in Wikipedia. However, the primers on it are unlike anything else available in one location that I know of. It is primarily informational, and stands, while new, as one of the most complete sources of news and information on alternate fuels on the web. It is correct that I did not completely read Wikipedia's policies before adding these links, but, as far as I can tell, the only thing I did that was against these policies was to place my links at the top of the lists. For this I apologize. It was only done out of convenience not as an attack on anyone. I stand corrected and will, in the future, use the talk sections to suggest links. Again, I didn't realize that that was the correct way to put external links on Wikipedia.

Sorry, Paul Wear paul1943Paul1943 19:09, 5 January 2007 (UTC)

AWB

Thanks for sending me the file. What should I do now? --Imdanumber1 ( Talk | contribs) 02:56, 6 January 2007 (UTC)

Load the file and click start. That's pretty much it... alphachimp 09:51, 6 January 2007 (UTC)

Tell me you did this manually! – [1]. — Nearly Headless Nick 09:37, 6 January 2007 (UTC)

I did this manually. :) Popups haven't been working for me... alphachimp 09:50, 6 January 2007 (UTC)

But it automatically sent me to IE. Should the file be loaded with a specific file, or what? --Imdanumber1 ( Talk | contribs) 14:15, 6 January 2007 (UTC)

Template:NYCS time

Do you think you can have your bot substitute the {{NYCS time}} templates only for the line templates seen at the wikiprojects' category page? Thanks. --Imdanumber1 ( Talk | contribs) 18:33, 6 January 2007 (UTC)

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Blocked from editing

You left me a message saying that I have been blocked from editing. What I did was insert external links to www.alternatefuelsworld.com in completely appropriate locations. This website is no different from a number of websites available concerning alternate fuels listed in Wikipedia. The primers on it are unlike anything else available in one location that I know of. It is primarily informational, and stands, while new, as one of the most complete sources of news and information on alternate fuels on the web. It is correct that I did not completely read Wikipedia's policies before adding these links, but, as far as I can tell, the only thing I did that was against these policies was to place my links at the top of the lists. For this I apologize. It was only done out of convenience not as an attack on anyone. I stand corrected and will, in the future, use the talk sections to suggest links. Again, I didn't realize that that was the correct way to put external links on Wikipedia.

Sorry, Paul Wear paul1943

No problem. Thanks for the apology. alphachimp 19:58, 10 January 2007 (UTC)

Possible Mykungfu sock

Hey, could use a second opinion here. Have a look at 2Cold06 (talk · contribs) - the one article that he's edited is all about a disputed founder of Alpha Phi Alpha; his editing style resembles MKF's; he's editing from AOL (he forgot to log in once and edited the Poindexter article) like MKF; he's using the same sources MKF always tried to use; and the account suddenly sprang back to life when I indef-blocked McGrandWizard.. But he also hasn't done anything wrong just yet. Since checkuser can't confirm it fully (damn those AOL policies), should we block, or wait for him to do something disruptive again? Thanks. | Mr. Darcy talk 01:07, 7 January 2007 (UTC)

Follow-up: I ended up indef-blocking him - he threw a note up on an AfD that made his identity clear, as he referred to the three main participants in the original edit war (two of whom have never had any interactions with 2Cold06). | Mr. Darcy talk 22:26, 7 January 2007 (UTC)

Sorry for not getting back to you sooner. I would have suggested that you block. Keep up the good work! alphachimp 19:58, 10 January 2007 (UTC)

unblock

unblock this IP I'm at school and wish to edit a page. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 24.62.159.201 (talk) 15:39, 10 January 2007 (UTC).

You edited this page. You're not blocked. alphachimp 19:58, 10 January 2007 (UTC)

Vandalism

• User 24.123.189.2 has more than 20 counts of vandalism...the latest one from today. Thanks. House of Scandal 15:49, 10 January 2007 (UTC)
• Add to that about 20 counts of vandalism this week. House of Scandal 15:50, 10 January 2007 (UTC)

They've been blocked. In the future, just report them to WP:AIV. alphachimp 19:58, 10 January 2007 (UTC)

Welcoming

What is the template you used on User: Shabook's page to welcome them? I was just wondering because I only know the subst:welcome one. Thanks! MusicGirl21 23:01, 10 January 2007 (UTC)

{{Welcomeg}}. alphachimp 23:10, 10 January 2007 (UTC)

Thank you very much! MusicGirl21 01:00, 11 January 2007 (UTC)

User:Lebreicht

WHY DID YOU DELETE MY PAGE Lebreicht

WHY DID YOU DELETE MY PAGE >>> Lebreicht

ONCE AGAIN WHY DID YOU DELETE MY PAGE WITHOUT EVEN THE SLIGHTEST NOTICE: POLITE OR OTHERWISE >>>>> Lebreicht

WHY WHY WHY why why why why why why why why why WHY HAVE YOU REMOVED MY INofensive HARDWORK Lebreicht

MY USER PAGE WAS CREATED BY A LOT OF HARD WORK WHY DID YOU ARBITARILY REMOVE IT ... Lebreicht

I did gently warn you about last Summer, pointing you to WP:NOT. You've made no contribution to WP, other than crafting a user page that was beyond our guidelines. You're lucky it lasted that long. --Dweller 11:36, 11 January 2007 (UTC)

I see nothing on your Not list that iliminates me, and if you remember I ask for help in finding the correct wiki space which might best suit me You did not help me at the time. I too have a life and if you want me to respect yours please respect mine . Now please give me my user page and tell me (politely) where I should place it.

Alphachimp really doesn't need my help, but seeing as you ask, I direct you specifically to this section of WP:NOT --Dweller 12:30, 11 January 2007 (UTC)

Thank you --Dweller, your direction does show clearly that User::Alphachimp should be deleted, but as that doesnt help him or me, Why cant any one there provide positive help. Your not all Bots are you. Lebreicht

Lebreicht, I don't know specifically what was on your user page. I presume it was deleted because it violated one of the policies listed here: WP:USER#What can I not have on my user page?. Also, note that user pages exist to advance the Wikipedia project of building an encyclopedia. Your history doesn't show any evidence of contributions to the encyclopedia since you created your account last June. -- Jim Douglas ^(talk) _(contribs) 13:41, 11 January 2007 (UTC)

Thank you --Jim Douglas Your quite right, you dont know what was on Lebreicht thats because it was arbitrarily deleted by user:Alphachimp. But with Respect it's well known that a negative cannot be proved. Therefor your presumption falls on two counts. Lebreicht was a well crafted profile. It was created with a great deal of effort both offline and on (mainly off) As to my History within your Wiki, you have no idea what my areas of experience are and therefor cannot tell which pages I regularly view, but that I don't critically slash them about, (thats a negative ofcourse), dosn't mean that I'm not contributing. I varify my facts and even then proceed with caution, (where angels fear to tread!). A current area of expertise is The Mystisism surrounding Rennes Le Chateau, for which I would like to gather a compehensive Encyclopedic reference, whilst at the same time, in parrallel, creating fiction and fantasy from some very fertile sources. With very limited resources I am getting on with this project. I did hope for a little help and that was stated in ..Lebreicht

Both Jim Douglas and Dweller are right, and I'd like to thank them for responding. As the message says above, I'm often off of Wikipedia for extended periods of time -- this was one of them. I don't quite remember how I found your userpage, but I think someone reported you to WP:AIV as a user with no edits in encyclopedia space. We do not typically block for this, but I noticed that your userpage was insalvageably incoherent (failing WP:CSD G1...hence the "g1"). We typically delete the userpages of those individuals who appear to be using Wikipedia for free webhosting (see Wikipedia is not a free webhost). Those users who appear to have a consistent problem with this may be blocked indefinitely. I'm more than willing to give the text of the page to you (it's still in the database), but if you recreate it, it will be deleted immediately and you may be blocked. alphachimp 20:38, 11 January 2007 (UTC)

My RFA

Hey, thanks so much for supporting my recent RFA. A number of editors considered that I wasn't ready for the mop yet and unfortunately the RFA did not succeed (69/26/11). There are a number of areas which I will be working on (including changing my username) in the next few months in order to allay the fears of those who opposed my election to administrator.

I'd like to take this opportunity to thank you sincerely for your support over the past week. I've been blown away by the level of interest taken in my RFA and appreciate the time and energy dedicated by all the editors who have contributed to it, support, oppose and neutral alike. I hope to bump into you again soon and look forward to serving you and Wikipedia in any way I can. Cheers! The Rambling Man 18:29, 11 January 2007 (UTC) (the non-admin, formerly known as Budgiekiller)

And a special thanks for the strong support, it means a lot to know that my peers support me. The Rambling Man 18:29, 11 January 2007 (UTC)

Fast block

That was fast :) Keep up the great work. Arjun 21:22, 11 January 2007 (UTC)

Thanks. It's always a pleasure blocking vandals, but the real hard work is done by those watching the RC feed. :) alphachimp 21:41, 11 January 2007 (UTC)

AIV bot

Thanks for the notice. I removed the Alamo vandal, though, because I noticed the bot hasn't been doing much in the last half hour . . . · j e r s y k o talk · 22:55, 11 January 2007 (UTC)

Cuba

You unblocked just before Christmas. The page is once again plagued by vandalism - in the last week there were 65 edits of which I think only three were not reverted. I have requested semi-protection again. -- Beardo 23:29, 11 January 2007 (UTC)

Minor edits

I'd rather not click the checkbox each time I add a tag... it's another step that adds annoyance. --NE2 06:47, 12 January 2007 (UTC)

Apologies for the curt response. I now realize that I can simply set the preference to mark all edits minor before I go on a tagging spree. --NE2 07:15, 12 January 2007 (UTC)

autobrowser app

Hi, you recently rejected my application for Autobrowser because I was under 500 edits in mainspace. I think I've now passed that and would like to reapply because I'm into a process of standardizing and correccting some common errors sread throughout articles in Chile. I know that there is one wide spread error which I estiamte is in at least 200 articles and it would be a real tedious task to have to do all this manually.--JAXHERE | ^Talk 17:11, 9 January 2007 (UTC)

I'm going to get around to doing a ton of approvals a little late. I see you've added yourself to the checkpage, so I'll deal with you there. alphachimp 19:58, 10 January 2007 (UTC)han

Thanks, now I've got a new toy to learn to use --JAXHERE | ^Talk 13:36, 13 January 2007 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Martin Perreault - article deleted

Hi. I see in this AfD you decided to delete the article about Martin Perreault, which I regret, but accept it. I thought to use the approach one of those who preferred deletion suggested. Do you, as an administrator, find it OK, if I redirect Martin Perreault to Bianca Beauchamp's article? I believe we showed Mr. Perreault is an accomplished photographer,even you mention that in you final verdict, at this would be IMHO a reasonable compromise.

My second question is to ask you if it's common, that some of the contributors are so personal and attacking. Is there any way to resist this? Because it can annoy other contributors easily especially if they are new and cause they never return. (Just a question of a curious newbie :-) )

Cheers Rikapt 10:44, 12 January 2007 (UTC)

I see nothing wrong with that. Go for it! Honestly, all of the attacks usually come from new users or people brought to the pages from forums or blogs. They tend to be the most fierce. I hope that helps! Welcome to Wikipedia. alphachimp 03:10, 13 January 2007 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Esperanza is on DRV

I posted a deletion review for Esperanza on Wikipedia:Deletion review#Wikipedia:Esperanza. Please participate in the discussion.--Ed ^{¿Cómo estás?}Reviews? 15:54, 12 January 2007 (UTC)

You do realize that other admins deleted pages as well...? alphachimp 03:10, 13 January 2007 (UTC)

"Temporarily"

Just to let you know, I edited one of your block notices since I thought "temporarily" didn't exactly convey "until September 2007" well enough... -- tariqabjotu 22:31, 12 January 2007 (UTC)

Sure, thanks for telling me. alphachimp 03:10, 13 January 2007 (UTC)

problem block.

You blocked this user. Why? Only 2 edits in the past few days and both in the sandbox. Gotta check contributions when running though WP:AIV or you can get baited by a troll. ---J.S (T/C/WRE) 00:13, 13 January 2007 (UTC)

I did check the contributions, and I always do. He attempted to redirect the sandbox to "#REDIRECT Vagina#Functions_of_the_vagina". That seemed malicious to me. If it had not been to the sandbox, the block would have been longer. alphachimp 00:15, 13 January 2007 (UTC)

Hmmmm ok. Fair enough. ---J.S (T/C/WRE) 08:47, 13 January 2007 (UTC)

Coverville verification

Regarding the article Coverville, I see that it requires verification. Is there a way to see which items are suspect? I'm the owner of the show mentioned, and can verify whatever is necessary, citing sources from articles about the show, or confirming posted information. Whatever I can do to help! Bibbott 14:30, 10 January 2007 (UTC)Bibbott—The preceding unsigned comment was added by Bibbott (talk • contribs) 00:12, 10 January 2007 (UTC).

We need independent sources other than things put out by your podcast. I'm thinking about things like newspaper articles, articles in scholarly journals, and magazine articles. alphachimp 19:58, 10 January 2007 (UTC)

I understand. The BusinessWeek article will verify the basic details about the show. I don't believe that there are any articles that verify the full listing of show types (Cover Story, Cover to Cover Interviews, etc.) that are listed, but I know some have described a few of the different types. I actually have a few more magazines and newspapers that have done articles on the show, but some of them don't archive their articles online. Can I put a reference to the newspaper/magazine, date, issue number and page number in those cases? Are all the Coverville sections under suspect of verification, or is there a section that I can focus on finding the relvant articles to verify? (Thanks for your help - I'm obvioulsy new to this, but want to make sure that it's done right)Bibbott 18:06, 12 January 2007 (UTC)Bibbott

Absolutely! I'd encourage you to add sources from the print media. We don't use them often because, honestly, they're a lot harder to use. But yeah, it'd be amazing if you added some. Check out WP:CITE for some reasonable guidelines on what to do (and absolutely let me know if you have any further questions). I've deleted quite a few podcast articles recently as a failure of our criteria for speedy deletion. I'm really happy to see one developing nicely. alphachimp 00:21, 14 January 2007 (UTC)

Question About AIV

I was told that Users with obviously offensive Usernames were to be reported to AIV, yet on a few of the ones I've reported, I've seen someone who's removed them from the list put "not mt" in the edit summary. Is there something I'm doing wrong? As I said, I was told that users with obviously offensive Usernames were to be reported there. I must have missed one of the Wikipedia guidelines because I don't know what "mt" means. What is "mt?" Acalamari 02:57, 13 January 2007 (UTC)

It's actually pretty simple. "MT" means "Empty" (referring to the list of IPs and accounts). My only guess is that the account was either already blocked (and not removed by the bot) or the block was not appropriate. My guess is the former. Let me know if you have any further questions. alphachimp 03:10, 13 January 2007 (UTC)

Okay thanks; I wasn't sure, so I had to ask. I am correct to report offensive Usernames to AIV though aren't I? Acalamari 04:38, 13 January 2007 (UTC)

Yes, however make sure it is rather obvious. (I am a terrible Alphachimp imposter :) Arjun 04:58, 13 January 2007 (UTC)

I know; I only report Usernames which I can see are offensive and/or violate the rules. Acalamari 20:07, 13 January 2007 (UTC)

Popups

Are they working for you? — Nearly Headless Nick 09:24, 13 January 2007 (UTC)

In terms of functionality, they are, but not in terms of edit summaries (see [2]). I'm thinking it's an issue with VoA's scripts (js rollback links haven't been working either). Check out User talk:Undo. From the looks of that deletion log, a few other admins have been having difficulties. alphachimp 16:30, 13 January 2007 (UTC)

CFD

Hi, just wanted to inform you that plugin for CFD/W you requested is now available with AWB 3.1.0.0. MaxSem 19:42, 13 January 2007 (UTC)

Thanks so much! alphachimp 23:08, 13 January 2007 (UTC)

Re: Contact

Reading the pages linked now. Martinp23 23:07, 13 January 2007 (UTC)

User:Solitaire190

Was I right to leave him that message? I just wanted to know for the future. By the way, User:Brenda Hmong-God of the Hmongs uploaded Image:moises arias2.jpg and it was just an image of an anus. Maybe you would like to do something about it? --Shaericell Talker to Triplets! |Email Me 23:24, 13 January 2007 (UTC)

Yeah, you were totally right in doing so. Feel free to just report anyone claiming to be an unapproved bot. Someone doing that is obviously up to no good. I've dealt with the image and the vandal who uploaded it. Hope that helps. Regards, alphachimp 23:46, 13 January 2007 (UTC)

Okay, thank you. that did help. I am surprised people that had made good edits after the image was posted deleted it. Thank you. --Shaericell Talker to Triplets! |Email Me 00:51, 14 January 2007 (UTC)

AWB

I thank you, but I don't want to automate anything right now, the two tasks I want the sock for are better off done by hand, it lets me get a feel for what needs fixing, recategorising, bringing up at WP:LGBT etc. When I think of more stuff, I'll probably consider it. I've requested a name change at WP:CHU. Thanks for your help. Dev920 (Have a nice day!) 00:07, 14 January 2007 (UTC)

Rainforest edits

Cheers for blocking, was getting bored with removing complete nonsense every minute! Muchclag 00:15, 14 January 2007 (UTC)

My pleasure. Sorry about the wasted time.... alphachimp 00:18, 14 January 2007 (UTC)

Deletion

Sure, you can delete em :) I edited it since i plan on editing more; i just haven't been active since i am busy this year :( Thanks! [wossi] 00:35, 15 January 2007 (UTC)

Weather conditions in Czechia

If it's vandalism updating temperatures according to the official data why is editting not blocked then? [ http://www.chmi.cz/] —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 85.70.33.55 (talk) 01:11, 15 January 2007 (UTC).

User:67.91.41.54

Thanks for blocking this guy. He's been a problem for the Navy Cross article for many months now. If you have the time, please keep this IP on your watch list, as you can see from the article's edit history, he's nothing if not persistent. Rklawton 04:13, 14 January 2007 (UTC)

He's back again. Not that this is a surprise. He's been doing this for months. What's the proper way to deal with long-term IP vandals? I haven't a clue. This particular IP seems to have only a single user, but I don't know how to make sure (etc). Rklawton 21:58, 15 January 2007 (UTC)

It does appear to be a single user. The blocks will get longer and longer and longer until he can't edit anymore. I'll be waiting for the next edit (I think we'll increment the block to 1 month or something like that.). Coincidentally, the IP goes to ip67-91-41-54.z41-91-67.customer.algx.net. I suspect it's static, but I have no idea how to find out :). Thanks for being so diligent with this. alphachimp 22:53, 15 January 2007 (UTC)

Is there a form letter we have for IP administrators regarding vandalism? This IP's host has an abuse@ e-mail address, and maybe vandalizing Wikipedia might fall afoul of their terms of use policies. If it's appropriate, I'd be happy to take the appropriate steps. This would be my first time around for this sort of thing, but I gotta start somewhere. Can you point me to some further reading on this? Rklawton 01:39, 16 January 2007 (UTC)

Yup. To be honest, I have never really pursued that angle (despite blocking some very long term and nasty vandals). I have always been a bit concerned about being laughed off when I say "I am a volunteer Wikipedia contributor." Anyway, I would encourage you to investigate it if the vandalism persists. Check out WP:ABUSE (currently a fairly bad backlog, probably because of people with attitudes like mine...). There is a pretty good guide (with form emails and suggestions) on WP:GAR. Let me know if you would like me to proof or assist with anything to do with reporting the vandal (send me an email if you would like). alphachimp 01:46, 16 January 2007 (UTC)

Thanks! I'll keep you in the loop. Rklawton 02:32, 16 January 2007 (UTC)

Esperanza

Alphachimp, if me and User:Carcharoth came up with a list of pages that we'd probably like to review and potentially restore, as protected redirects with only the history available, would you be prepared to give it the once over and take it from there? Appreciate this mess is getting long and convoluted, but anything to put it to bed. I'm not interested in touching anything explicitly membership or governance related. Hiding Talk 16:50, 15 January 2007 (UTC)

Hiding, I respect your judgment as to what should and should not be restored. I'm done dealing with Esperanza, so just go ahead and restore whatever you would like. alphachimp 19:20, 15 January 2007 (UTC)

Cheers mate. I hope, really hope, this is the end. Hiding Talk 19:44, 15 January 2007 (UTC)

Yeah, ditto. I really do owe you quite a bit of thanks for being a voice of reason. Do keep up the good work. alphachimp 19:46, 15 January 2007 (UTC)

AWB, revisited

Hey Achimp, I downloaded AWB onto my computer. Now what do I do in order to give my bot the command to replace the templates? --Imdanumber1 (talk | contribs) 17:34, 15 January 2007 (UTC)

load the configuration file, log in as the bot, create the page list using the make list command, and start the process. There are fairly complete instructions on WP:AWB. Let me know if you need more help or want alphachimpbot to do it for you. (It'd be pretty easy) alphachimp 19:27, 15 January 2007 (UTC)

Thanks, but I'd rather do it myself so I can learn how to give bot commands in the futue. Thanks. --Imdanumber1 (talk | contribs) 20:23, 15 January 2007 (UTC)

I'm still a bit confused. Yes, I want my bot to do it, but the first file you e-mailed me opened up in IE. Isn't it supposed to open in a compressed file or whatnot? I don't mean to be a bother, but I'm new to bot commanding and I really want to do this. --Imdanumber1 (talk | contribs) 21:28, 15 January 2007 (UTC)

It's not "bot commanding". It's just a matter of loading the settings file from within AWB. Open the *.XML file from within the AWB application. alphachimp 22:43, 15 January 2007 (UTC)

Thanks, Alphachimp, it's working as I speak!!! --Imdanumber1 (talk | contribs) 00:55, 16 January 2007 (UTC)

No problem, I'm just glad it works!!! --Imdanumber1 (talk | contribs) 01:02, 16 January 2007 (UTC)

May I suggest: "BOT - replacing WP:NYCPT templates"? alphachimp 01:03, 16 January 2007 (UTC)

No problem! --Imdanumber1 (talk | contribs) 01:05, 16 January 2007 (UTC)

Larry brought something up that my bot's edits aren't being marked as such because he chose to hide bot edits, what do I do? --Imdanumber1 (talk | contribs) 01:13, 16 January 2007 (UTC)

Bot flagging is an account change (like +sysop) and can only be done by a 'crat. I'm not sure it's important for a bot doing your number of edits (and stopping afterwards), which is why I suspect Tawker didn't ask for you to get a flag. I've responded on the bot's talk page. I don't think this is too much of a big deal. alphachimp 01:17, 16 January 2007 (UTC)

About 201.170.43.81

The user in question was not only blanking, but was handing over legal threats, also on my talk page before you'r block. Anything I should do? _→AzaToth 23:45, 15 January 2007 (UTC)

Yeah, I know. Legitimate legal action is typically directed at the foundation level. Hence, I suspect this is just a farce. Still I've posted Wikipedia:Administrators'_noticeboard/Incidents#Legal_order_to_blank_Sex.com.3F. Feel free to comment there. alphachimp 23:48, 15 January 2007 (UTC)

Ok, hehe, OT: rather difficult to read that above comment of yours because of the justify margins :) _→AzaToth 00:01, 16 January 2007 (UTC)

I'm confused...is the page displaying badly (I suck at html...feel free to do whatever you want to fix it :)) alphachimp 00:05, 16 January 2007 (UTC)

Please see my comments to the ANI thread. Thanks, Newyorkbrad 00:03, 16 January 2007 (UTC)

Thanks. I was honestly hoping you'd respond (or Crzrussian), but I didn't want to come across as asking for legal advice...even on behalf of en. alphachimp 00:05, 16 January 2007 (UTC)

Feel free to ask anything you want. In the unlikely event I (or anyone) doesn't want to respond, that can be said. In this case, checking whether there was an order in place and whether the phone number is valid (see my most recent ANI post) is closer to clerical research than giving legal advice. (It also happens that about three years ago, I litigated one of the leading US cases on civil contempt liability for non-parties.) Newyorkbrad 00:23, 16 January 2007 (UTC)

Article Deletion

I was browsing WikiPedia when I noticed that my article, titled "Finale NotePad" was deleted. Could you please tell me why? I'd appreciate it. Thanks! Zhouf12 23:48, 15 January 2007 (UTC)

I deleted it as advertising and for failure to assert notability. I realize that it is a free product, but the article seemed somewhat promotional and did not assert the notability of the software. I would be more than willing to restore it if you would be willing to improve the article. Regards, alphachimp 00:47, 16 January 2007 (UTC)

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		I Arjun award you; "Alphachimp" for being one of the best administrators I know. Your administrative work on wikipedia is outstanding. Cheers! Arjun 20:46, 16 January 2007 (UTC)

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Saddam_Hussein

I can not revert the blanked page.  Planetary Chaos  Talk to me  20:48, 16 January 2007 (UTC)

Ryulong just fixed it, so you're good. Check out WP:REVERT for some fairly comprehensive instructions. It should cover everything, but let me know if you need any more help. Regards, alphachimp 20:57, 16 January 2007 (UTC)

Halloween

Hello again IP 69.118.112.119 keeps vandalizing Halloween Special:Contributions/69.118.112.119  Planetary Chaos  Talk to me  23:15, 16 January 2007 (UTC)

I already blocked him, but thanks for the report. alphachimp 23:16, 16 January 2007 (UTC)

Administrators

What do you have to do to become an administrator? —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Zhouf12 (talk • contribs) 23:51, 16 January 2007 (UTC).

Submit an RFA, following the instructions on that page. In general, users are not approved without significant name recognition from within the community and at least 2000-3000 edits across a balanced distribution of namespaces. alphachimp 00:06, 17 January 2007 (UTC)

User:Danumber1bot

Imdanumber1's new bot is not marking its edits with the bot flag, so I can't hide them in my watchlist. I'm not familiar with using bots, so it would be great if you told him how to turn that flag on. Thanks, Larry V (talk | e-mail) 04:33, 17 January 2007 (UTC)

It's actually a crat flag issue, just like +sysop. BAG typically request flags when they deem it necessary. I ask around and see what we can do about it (there's no way it's his fault...I'm not sure if the flag is retroactive...we'll see). alphachimp 05:44, 17 January 2007 (UTC)

AWB

how do i know how many edits I have? thanks --Dexter prog 11:37, 17 January 2007 (UTC)

Hey ALpha, need you for a third opinion

Hey Alpha I'm in teh midle of an adovacy case and could use a third opinion for a neutral editor (ie one that is not involved with any party) to give my advocee an unbiased opinon. My Adoccee is Alan.ca, his AMA case is Wikipedia:AMA Requests for Assistance/Requests/December 2006/Alan.ca. Thanks in advance Æon ^{Insanity Now!}_EA! 23:48, 17 January 2007 (UTC)

Editing

I believe that instead of letting anyone edit the pages, anyone who wants to edit a page should forward a message/e-mail to an administrator regarding the edit and article. Therefore, the accuracy will be guaranteed, if the administrator reviews it for accuracy. When I did research projects in school, I wasn't allowed to use WikiPedia because of its inaccuracy rate. WikiPadia provides a wealth of excellent knowledge, and it would be even better and useful if it was completely accurate. PLease consider this thought! Thanks!Zhouf12 23:51, 17 January 2007 (UTC)

Bad idea, it runs quite contrary to the ideals behind a wiki. You're welcome, however, to post your suggestion on WP:VPP alphachimp 06:12, 20 January 2007 (UTC)

gamersedge podcast

may i ask why the articel on the gamersedge podcast was deleted? http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special%3ALog&type=delete&user=&page=Gamers+edge+ Gamersedge 21:50, 18 January 2007 (UTC)

Of course. Your podcast article did not assert a sufficient level of notability for inclusion in Wikipedia. Quite honestly, that notability is just not there. As such, I've deleted the article. alphachimp 06:12, 20 January 2007 (UTC)

User:67.91.41.54

The block expired, and he's back to his same old bad data edits to Navy Cross. You'll see that as soon as a block expires, regardless of length, he's back at work again. His ISP looks like it offers permanent connections, but it's hard to be sure. I'm not aware of any complaints any time that ISP's been blocked. Thanks again for your help. Rklawton 02:07, 19 January 2007 (UTC)

I've hard blocked the IP for one month. That shouldn't allow any logged in or anonymous users. I suspect he'll be back after that, but we can deal with it once the issue arises. Sorry for the poor response time on my part. alphachimp 06:15, 20 January 2007 (UTC)

No worries; you can't be everywhere all at once. Besides, it gave me a chance to post a creative note on Wikipedia:Administrator intervention against vandalism - which was promptly dealt uncreatively as "not simple vandalism." Rklawton 06:23, 20 January 2007 (UTC)

AWB approval

Hi! Thanx for approving me for the AWB, however my name was not added to the check page, and i seem to be having trouble even starting AWB (the debugger loads with an exception error), I don't know the mechanics behind the process, so i'm unsure if the lack of my name on the check page could have anything to do with that. I've posted my problem at the talk page but no one has yet responded. Any help you could give would be appreciated. -ΖαππερΝαππερ ^Babel_Alexandria 21:48, 17 January 2007 (UTC)

Uh, your name is on the check page. Try using the 'find' feature in your browser. As for the AWB error, that's a software issue. They'll be able to help you over on WT:AWB. alphachimp 06:19, 20 January 2007 (UTC)

ok... i found it, was just scrolling to the bottom of the page (admin section, oops!), thnx. And i've posted at the talk page but no one has responded. I kind of piggybacked on someone else's post, and their post was answered either. perhaps i need to post seperately to draw more attention to the issue? -ΖαππερΝαππερ ^Babel_Alexandria 15:46, 20 January 2007 (UTC)

It took me a few to

It is an agrument over content and adding a minor fact (See My Archive). Luckly its not gone ot mediation but is still at the basic advocating stage so I'm only advising. Bascily now I just need a neutral thrid party ot help me close this one off. Æon ^{Insanity Now!} 17:32, 20 January 2007 (UTC)

Georgia (U.S. state) page

Thought you'd like to know the vandal struck again on the page above. Badbilltucker 21:48, 20 January 2007 (UTC)

Yeah, I blocked him right before you posted here :). alphachimp 22:01, 20 January 2007 (UTC)

RickK Anti-Vandalism Barnstar

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		Despite your comment above that you can't be everywhere at once, it often seems that way to me whenever I'm RC patrolling... so, here's another Barnstar for you and thanks for everything that you are doing. KatalavenoTC 21:58, 20 January 2007 (UTC)

Thanks so much! :) alphachimp 22:01, 20 January 2007 (UTC)

Joshan Article

Hello, I am wishing to inquire as to why most of the text on the Joshan article was deleted. I wonder this because most of the text in the prior edits seem to be reasonable, talking about a submarine and the Iranian Navy...Can you please tell me what was your basis in reverting the page? Thank you. (Note: I just want to know why...this isn't an attack or anything, and please point out anything that I might have missed.) --Root2 23:11, 20 January 2007 (UTC)

I think you may have made a mistake and reverted to the wrong version; please take a look at the article and tell me what you think. --Root2 23:13, 20 January 2007 (UTC)

I'm not quite sure why, but I looked at the diff removed it because of the imageshack link. I think it looked like that was all that was added. It's reverted. alphachimp 23:15, 20 January 2007 (UTC)

Thank you for taking such quick action to correct your mistake. To this, I applaud you.--Root2 23:22, 20 January 2007 (UTC)

ipvandal

Thanks for your intervention regarding this [3]. One issue also is that I have been attacked similarly before by another ip from what looks like the same domain system [4].

http://www.dnsstuff.com/tools/whois.ch?ip=87.74.34.17 http://www.dnsstuff.com/tools/whois.ch?ip=87.74.49.93

This attack is similar in tone and content to that old one [5] for which he is blocked. Could you look into it? Rumpelstiltskin223 23:48, 20 January 2007 (UTC)

Newyorkbrad's RfA

This is to thank you for your early support on my RfA, which closed favorably this morning. I appreciate the confidence the community has placed in me and am looking forward to my new responsibilities. Please let me know if ever you have any comments or suggestions, especially as I am learning how to use the tools. Best regards, Newyorkbrad 17:34, 21 January 2007 (UTC)

help

help

Hi, i need your help

One of your admin, Doc glasgow , is threatening me and blocking my account. We have a dispute in the definition on living person.

Please contact me for more information.

Thanks

Senatorto

This is probably not the best place to add your complaints. alphachimp 19:19, 22 January 2007 (UTC)

Your block of Hank Ramsey

Thanks for the block. I suspect it's someone using another's legitimate account. Anyway, he vandalised my userpage after I reverted his edits and gave him a test4im. Thanks again! Flyguy649 16:26, 22 January 2007 (UTC)

User warnings have been updated

Heya, looks like the user warnings have been updated. Check out WP:UTM. Cheers! --Brad Beattie (talk) 01:12, 23 January 2007 (UTC)

I appreciate the effort that went in, but I'm not sure that I like them. Thanks for informing me. alphachimp 01:17, 23 January 2007 (UTC)

I should probably clarify. I think I standardized system is great. I'm just a bit worried that there aren't enough block messages in the new templates. I've always used {{vblock}}, {{GBlock}}, and {{vandalblock}}. I see an equivalent for vblock, but the other two seem to not be there. That's my only (tiny) concern. alphachimp 01:20, 23 January 2007 (UTC)

Photos in IL Divo's member pages, Since when photos from album cover arent allowed to be posted here?

I have justified that all 4 photos in there are from the album "The Christmas Collection" and could you please tell me why you removed them? I said remove this one - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:CarlosS.jpg but it was not removed ; yet you removed 4 photos in the member pages. Why? I replied to ODEN telling him its ok to remove one of the photos which has no link (the link above) but not 4 photos in the Il Divo's member page. May I know by who and how all this decisions were made? Please buy The CHRISTMAS COLLECTION to see the photos in the cover booklet as pages given in that site before you remove them. I have given the justification but did not received any comments from the admin. I believe I deserve some answers or justifications before the photos been removed.- Jay 04:55, 23 January 2007 (UTC)

Radiokirk has responded on your talk page, and I believe his response was adequate in regard to the application of WP:FUC. Let me know if I need to explain or respond further. alphachimp 05:14, 23 January 2007 (UTC)

But, did you read my reply and Robert's statement? Those photos are from the CD cover of THE CHRISTMAS COLLECTION at page 2,3,4 and 5 and I have justified it at each photo pages. And that is my point on why they have to be removed? Well, I truly need your response regarding that. - Jay 05:26, 23 January 2007 (UTC)

Small images of CD/album covers are OK so long as they are being used to illustrate articles (or sections) specifically about the album. They can't be used to illustrate the group or member's pages. Rklawton 05:40, 23 January 2007 (UTC)

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Approving AWB users

Hey, thanks for approving me and I don't mean to be rude or anything but I think the list is supposed to be in alphabetical order. If it doesn't matter then never mind but it seems that way. Yonatanh 11:44, 23 January 2007 (UTC)

It doesn't have any affect on the program working. Putting it in ABC order is an irritating, processor intensive job I do every several weeks. In the short term, names are added to the top of the list for convenience. alphachimp 13:56, 23 January 2007 (UTC)

SEO World Championship

Hi

I saw your comment "I'd blacklist them all" in the WikiProject_Spam#SEO_world_championship talk, and would say: yes, my site (earth-globalwarming-awareness2007.com) is listed in this article, and no, I never submitted my URL here nor asked anyone to put my URL in Wikipedia.

In this case, someone thought he could help french contestants by spamming Wikipedia with the list of all french pages. It was a bad idea, but a solo initiative: he did not take advice from any webmaster of any of the concerned sites.

Have you ever imagined that a malvolant webmaster could try to harm other competitors pages by getting them blacklisted wherever he can?

Ereynaud 12:30, 23 January 2007 (UTC) E.J.Reynaud

You're welcome to provide us with a list of their pages as well. That said, adding your links would not make any difference. We now use NOFOLLOW. alphachimp 13:57, 23 January 2007 (UTC)

Vandalism

Would you mind cleaning-up the 1997 film Nil By Mouth (Ray Winstone, Kathy Burke; directed by Gary Oldman)? Some moron has put in some puerile data, for whatever reason.

Thanks

stirling.attfield@bauer.co.uk

Do you know if the unregistered user 207.144.220.3 (you may have to use the search bar to locate them) has caused collateral damage? If you do, please reply to Steptrip.

Please respond,

Steptrip 20:59, 23 January 2007 (UTC)

Mirza Masroor Ahmad

I tried to create an article about Mirza Masroor Ahmad. See Talk:Mirza_Masroor_Ahmad Can we do it? Thanks! --Ahmadi2 17:07, 22 January 2007 (UTC)

Nope. It's still a copyvio of [6]. Write something original. alphachimp 19:19, 22 January 2007 (UTC)

May be your allowed to delete the article but not the talk page! --Ahmadi2 19:00, 23 January 2007 (UTC)

Thanks

Thanks for blocking 137.164.143.112, anons like that are unnaceptable, all the best. 1B6 16:55, 23 January 2007 (UTC)

AWB

Thanks for your comments r.e. my edit count. I wasn't aware of the differance between mainspace and nonmainspace edits. Back to editing!!... TheOne00 13:52, 24 January 2007 (UTC)

Spam blacklist/WikiProject Spam

Hi. I saw your request for action regarding blacklisting of siamforum. Comments:

1. The Spam blacklist is backed up a week or more.
2. Consider standing for Meta admin. Count on me for your first support comment!
3. Feel free to post particularly aggravating or aggressive cases at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Spam -- it's handy to have others watching for a certain spammer while you're busy off-line.
4. Thanks for all you do to fight spam. --A. B. ^(talk) 22:04, 24 January 2007 (UTC)

I appreciate the compliment. I would go for meta admin, but I do not yet have 100 edits there (I only have about 3). Ill try to increase my involvement there. I would report things to the spam project, but the page is really a little too long. I will post over there about it. Regards, alphachimp 18:52, 25 January 2007 (UTC)

Shadowbot blacklist request

 Done Link blacklisted. Thanks for telling me; I've been on Wikibreak so I missed the request. Shadow1 (talk) 23:53, 25 January 2007 (UTC)

Discussion about blocking

Dear Alphachimp,

Sorry we didn't meet under better circumstances. I published some external links that I believe are very useful to Arlington Heights, Illinois. These links were repeatedly deleted by Milo the Mindbender. He claimed that the external links were spam. I claim that his acts are vandalism. I strongly feel that they are not spam and that they are very useful to people who follow the links from the Arlington Heights Wikipedia article.

The external links I published forwarded to categories in Arlingtoncards.com, which is a website that has community directories and news information about Arlington Heights. The website is a legitimate website and has been written about in two local newspapers: The Daily Herald and The Post.

According to my website stats, visitors who come from the Wikipedia article become return visitors and don't simply jump off. Since the directory also helps with high school reunions for a high school that is now closed, many people find the information they need because of the Wikipedia article.

When 'Milo' made his deletes he also botched the page because he caused one of the bullet points to start with a pipe instead of a bullet point. I felt I was legitimately repairing vandalism and that 'Milo' was personally attacking me, not trying to prevent spam. If he were trying to prevent spam because of multiple links, he could have at least left one of the links to Arlingtoncards.com. Please be advised that I limited the multiple links to one link to try to be civil, but the sole remaining link to the front page of Arlingtoncards.com was also deleted by 'Milo.'+

'Milo' has also deleted external links on the Arlington High School (Arlington Heights, IL) that pointed readers to old homecoming pictures and pictures of the now-closed high school. How could this be spam? It is obvious that the references to the high school pictures do not point to anything commercial.

I responded to his threats of having me blocked by posting what I posted. His threats do not promote civility because he is twisting my efforts into accusations of spam to justify his vandalism. Neither do his deletions promote civility ... there is nothing invasive, or offensive or inaccurate about the results of those links that he deleted ... in fact, as I said , they are useful to many visitors. By the way isn't he supposed to edit for the better, not delete? And isn't he supposed to report spamming if he suspects spamming?

Who is really the revertor here? Isn't he the revertor for making the deletions to a state before my contributions? Wasn't I just repairing vandalism?

Also, a one month block seems to be above what the guidelines recommend:

Personal attacks — Blocks should not normally be used against general incivility or isolated incidents of personal attacks. Again, dynamic IPs: up to 24 hours. AOL IPs and range blocks: about 15 minutes, then 1-3 hours, and 24 at most, to avoid collateral damage. User accounts with persistent violations may be blocked indefinitely. Excessive reverting (3RR) — Generally 24 hours. It is helpful to leave a notice of the block on the user's talk page.

I would appreciate any comments or questions that you have.

--T54 20:48, 26 January 2007 (UTC)T100

Your account has been blocked indefinitely per WP:BLOCK, which specifies that accounts used for block evasion must be blocked on sight. Your questions are reasonable, so I'm responding on your talk page. We can discuss this there. alphachimp 00:34, 27 January 2007 (UTC)

RVBOT

What are you doing blocking the bot??? I'am not contributing to it. I'am hoping to create it as a clone of Anti-vandalbot. Retiono Virginian 17:05, 27 January 2007 (UTC)

WikiProject MMO Assessment

Hi! I am just wondering how the MMO article assessing is going. Thanks! Greeves ^{(talk • contribs)} 17:23, 27 January 2007 (UTC)

Regarding the block of 216.186.27.3.

Dear AlphaChimp,

The IP Address 216.186.27.3. is that of Oak Harbor Middle School, and was recently blocked for the vandilisim of Jesus's artical. I advise pernamently blocking the schools IP Address, as my fellow students shouldn't be spending their time editing Wikipedia articals, anyway.

Thanks,

 John (Tagetto)

Sorry, we don't block on request like that. Some schoolchildren do appear to be able to handle editing Wikipedia. alphachimp 02:25, 29 January 2007 (UTC)

Check this out please and advise ...

I suspect I am being railroaded here:

User (User talk:Satori Son) is using the repository claim and the spam claim to prohibit my links from Arlington Heights, IL and Arlington High School (Arlington Heights, IL)

I think this is very unreasonable and not in the spirit of cooperation and counters having free access to ALL information. Arlingtoncards.com is a very comprehensive reference that applies to both of said articles.

--T54 16:05, 28 January 2007 (UTC)T54

I don't seem to be making any progress trying to have a reasonable discussion with an editor. Please see this revision that involved User talk:Satori Son :

[[Last Revision http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:Satori_Son&diff=103968422&oldid=103965548}}]]

I think Satori call this RVT Trolling. Could you please tell me what that is ... it sounds like something fun, but I think it is a bad thing. I asked him what it is, but he just deleted my question. So much for community spirit.

Also Milo H. Mindbender didn't even bother to respond. Nobody is offering any positive suggestions.

--T54 01:27, 29 January 2007 (UTC)T54

I did not feel it was necessary or productive to leave an ad hominem personal attack on my talk page. I have clearly and politely made my point on this issue, as have several others. See, for one, Talk:Arlington High School (Arlington Heights, Illinois). Alphachimp, if you have suggestions on how to better communicate Wikipedia policy to this editor, it would be greatly appreciated. Thank you, Satori Son 01:49, 29 January 2007 (UTC)

The attack doesn't seem that strong, but I'd probably agree with you and RKlawton that arlingtoncards.com is not an appropriate site to add. If nothing else, it doesn't directly complement the text of the articles. The argument that you're limiting the free flow of information is somewhat ludicrous. Wikipedia policies are in place to (amongst many other things) prevent the exploitation of our site to drive traffic to other websites. The fact that T54 is citing his traffic logs indicates that, at least on some level, there is promotion involved in this request. As such, I'm inclined to believe that the link should not be included. alphachimp 02:31, 29 January 2007 (UTC)

I certainly agree that the personal attack was relatively minor, and I absolutely was not asking you to take any admin action against T54. Very sorry if it sounded that way. I was just letting you know why I reverted the comment. Have a good one. -- Satori Son 04:15, 29 January 2007 (UTC)

Do you guys have any idea what babies you sound like? Alphachimp, maybe you missed my question or maybe it is some kind of secret code, but if you can tell me and not have to kill me, would you please tell me what RVT Trolling is ... inquiring minds want to know.

Watching my website statistics means I am carefully checking to make sure the site is delivering what people want. I like to know that when visitors come to the website with a purpose that they are finding what they are looking for. Do the policies of Wikipedia care that visitors are satisfied with what they are looking for, or does this go by the wayside because there are misguided editors and administrators that let big egos focus on clobbering people with policy that focuses on the letter instead of the intent of the 'law.' I get the sense that you all are losing your sense of how the real world works. If I am right, you are all frantically searching your minds for a policy that you can use to block or take some kind of administration action against me like a bunch of fourth graders. I think helping me or having some humility or open mindedness is the last thing on your minds.

--T54 04:28, 29 January 2007 (UTC)T54

My RfA

Thank you for your support in my recent RfA. I think valid criticisms were raised in areas that I need to work on, so I've withdrawn my name. I intend to work on addressing the concerns that were raised, and think I need to work contributing without allowing myself to become as stressed as I have been at times, which did result in some inappropriate behavior. Perhaps I may re-explore adminship at some point in the future, but it's a little early to consider that. Again, thank you. Fan-1967 21:42, 28 January 2007 (UTC)

Imdanumber1

You said that I am "being consistently impolite towards" him. This is not my intent, but he continues to accuse me of vandalism, and it is perfectly legitimate to remove false vandalism warnings. --NE2 03:28, 29 January 2007 (UTC)

AWB

I'm sure you're busy, but can you check the approvals for AWB, please? Happy Editing by Snowolf^(talk) on 19:03, 29 January 2007 (UTC)

I was actually doing that right now. alphachimp 19:05, 29 January 2007 (UTC)

Thanks ;-) Happy Editing by Snowolf^(talk) on 19:07, 29 January 2007 (UTC)

Heiarchy of Blocks

Hey. I was at first perturbed by the 31 hour block for User:209.146.26.94 that you assigned, but then decided to ramp it down to 'curious.' Is there some level of block escalation that is generally agreed upon for blocking consistent & persistant vandals? In this case, 209.146.26.94 seems to have provided no value in his time since joining us in September 2005, but plenty of work for the vandal patrol. His talk page is moderately filled in (due, in part, I'm sure to people not taking the time to warn...after all, he has plenty already and hasn't stopped). So...why 31 hours following two 24 hour blocks? What would warrant a week-long block, or a month? Or even a softblock of the IP (from anonymous editing)? If there is guidance on this, can you please point me in the right direction, to satisfy my curiosity? I appreciate it. --LeyteWolfer 19:22, 29 January 2007 (UTC)

Ditto. Rklawton 19:29, 29 January 2007 (UTC)

We're not blocking IPs to punish them. We're blocking them to prevent them from doing damage to Wikipedia. Short term blocks followed by vandalism demonstrate that an IP may cause damage to Wikipedia...leading to the incrementation of a block. IPs demonstrating long histories of vandalism typically have their blocks incremented. In the case of this IP, I incremented the block to the next available interval (31 hours), which typically prevents vandalism during the next day. I'm sure the next block will be longer. It's not my interest to generate work for the vandalism patrol (most of my work here is spent with countervandalism stuff), but I've also got to look after the potential that someone might legitimately want to edit from that IP.

Feel free to check my block log. I think you'll notice that I'm not hesistant in issuing long term blocks...I generally avoid it, however, unless there is a pattern of prior blocks, or a deliberately obscene or offensive personal attack.

Coincidentally, it was a softblock. alphachimp 19:33, 29 January 2007 (UTC)

Thanks for the detailed response. When you mention the next available interval (31 hours, in this case)...how does that work? You are limited to your choices? Thirty-one hours isn't an arbitrary (though common) entry, but a 'provided' escalation? Are there any guidance pages to admins that help shape the policy for admins? Thanks. --LeyteWolfer 19:37, 29 January 2007 (UTC)

(edit conflicted...response to directly above) on Special:Blockip, there is a dropdown menu with common block lengths, as well as a field for us to add custom lengths. Due to the shear number of users I block, I can't often use the custom lengths. I guess WP:BLOCK would be such a page, but most admins just do their own thing as long as it falls within the bounds of reason. alphachimp 19:42, 29 January 2007 (UTC)

Looking at my initial comment again, I want to clarify that I'm not intentionally snarky. I am curious as to how admins make the decisions on blocking and I know us RC patrollers can get caught up in the moment (and see victories when a vandal is blocked). Thanks. --LeyteWolfer 19:33, 29 January 2007 (UTC)

I was thinking that an indef-soft block (if such a thing exists) would be appropriate for an IP with a long history of vandalism. Such a solution might work well with public primary and secondary schools, though it probably wouldn't work as well for AOL IPs. Rklawton 19:40, 29 January 2007 (UTC)

(edit conflicted - response to leytewolfer) Haha, no worries. I've done a lot of RC patrol myself, both as an admin and not. I've got to balance the conflicting demands of keeping Wikipedia open for editing and preventing vandalism (key word being preventing, not punishing). I often find myself in the position of having to block 7-8 ips in progression. This only gives me the chance to review several contributions and their block log. I usually make the decision based on those two factors. My monobook shell provides me with convenient links to standard block increments (they're admin only interface), which are 24, 31, 1 week, 1 month, etc (48 is omitted from my monobook). I don't always feel it appropriate to increment from 24->1 week. This case was one of those. Does that help? alphachimp 19:42, 29 January 2007 (UTC)

It does indeed. Thanks for the lesson. --LeyteWolfer 21:13, 29 January 2007 (UTC)

Ditto Rklawton 21:16, 29 January 2007 (UTC)

User talk:220.244.197.245

Has just put offensive blanksing vandalism on hajj And I noted you were the last to chastise this poor attention seekere thought you might like to know..SatuSuro 02:53, 30 January 2007 (UTC)

schoolblock

Nice work at WP:AIV. You might consider the template {{schoolblock}} for some of those pages. Gives the kids something to think about. Cheers, Kaisershatner 15:59, 30 January 2007 (UTC)

Thanks... you too. I've used it from time to time (generally only transcluded on the block page though), particularly when I'm blocking a school for the rest of the academic year. To be honest with you, it's hard for me to add the template because I'm doing this all using a slate Tablet PC. I'm only using some default block reasons in my monobook (I'm only using a pen...no keyboard or mouse). I'll try to add it whenever I can. alphachimp 16:05, 30 January 2007 (UTC)

Ripping off your page

I have been wanting to redo my user page for a while, and I came accross your page a couple weeks ago and decide to take your style. I'll keep changing it, but do you have a problem with me taking your ideas? --DrewWiki 16:52, 30 January 2007 (UTC)

Nope, no problem. I would prefer if you stuck a citation in the corner somewhere, but it is no big deal. alphachimp 17:02, 30 January 2007 (UTC)

I just took a look and I like it. One caution: vandals might be tempted to edit the transcluded subpages. I had some vandalism go by unnoticed for 4 days. alphachimp 17:03, 30 January 2007 (UTC)

Patch High School Fixes

Thank you for fixing the vanadlism to Patch High Schools pages. It has been attacked a few times in a short period of time, all by students. I am just giving you my thanks for watching over it and removing the somewhat hurtfull information about the schools teachers. Shotmenot 09:40, 31 January 2007 (UTC)

Recalcitrant IP vandal

Thanks, yet again, for the prompt attention. You're an excellent and diligent admin and you probably get little thanks. So THANKS --Dweller 17:07, 30 January 2007 (UTC)

Thank you so much :). The real work is for the vandal fighters...I just try to finish the job as best I can. alphachimp 17:09, 30 January 2007 (UTC)

We need an Admin to come to the Osama bin Laden page heavy ip vandle reported but back logged.  Planetary Chaos  Talk to me  19:25, 30 January 2007 (UTC)

Never mind he got blocked.  Planetary Chaos  Talk to me  19:26, 30 January 2007 (UTC)

Sorry, I was out. alphachimp 19:52, 30 January 2007 (UTC)

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Harold Pennywink

Harold Pennywink

Hey there Alphachimp! I am working on a school project and I wanted some information on Harold Pennywink. I thought that the first place that I would check was Wikipedia. I have found his MySpace but it isnt very discriptive. If you could have a Harold Pennywink page that would be great and very helpful to me.

Thanks a million!

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