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17:31, 5 July 2021 (UTC)

now i know the proper use of it thanks, mate. Wikipedia needs more like you. :) — Preceding unsigned comment added by 112.135.10.114 (talk) 11:25, 8 July 2021 (UTC)

CheckUser blocks

Please do not change my CheckUser blocks. You disabled all editing from an entire ISP, making it impossible for anyone but administrators to edit from that ISP. NinjaRobotPirate (talk) 15:44, 14 July 2021 (UTC)

Hi NinjaRobotPirate. I'm not sure which block in particular you are talking about. But when I expand an existing block I try to make it clear what aspects are based on what situations. So if there was an existing CU-block and I add more to it, I would note the CU aspect in my logmessage (so a non-CU admin who undoes "my" block would not accidentally loosen the CU block against policy) as well as what I was doing for whatever my reasons were. I'm always glad when collateral damage can be limited, and obviously can't tell without a CU hat how widespread it might be, so I try to remember to leave the logged-in-users option un-checked when rangeblocking beyond a /64. We do obviously have serious problems with IP-hopping and certain geographic regions' dynamic IP nature:( DMacks (talk) 16:01, 14 July 2021 (UTC)
You can't "expand" a hard block without causing massive collateral damage, and non-CheckUsers are forbidden by policy from loosening a CheckUser block. That means that you essentially can't change CheckUser hard blocks. If you want to change a CheckUser block, it would be best to contact a CheckUser and have them do it. CheckUsers can tell what kind of collateral damage their blocks will cause, and they are allowed to change the block from a hard block to a normal, anon-only block to limit collateral damage. There is no situation that warrants a hard block on an entire ISP. NinjaRobotPirate (talk) 16:35, 14 July 2021 (UTC)
I'll be sure to check with a CU before lengthing or tightening (not just when thinking about loosening, as I already said I always do, which is what arbcom specified in their policy) an IP block marked as CUblock. Again, without knowing what specific block you're talking about, I can't comment further about what I was thinking, what was mis-clicked, etc. DMacks (talk) 18:39, 14 July 2021 (UTC)

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Please block me from editing forever.

I've had enough of this daft website that's too full of its own self-importance. Ta. Oh, sorry, that might be regarded as frivolous. Thank you. — Preceding unsigned comment added by SquidSix (talkcontribs) 12:01, 18 July 2021 (UTC)

Just walk away. Prove you can be a big person, and walk away. Don't keep using a website you don't like. We're welcome to use our time here, but why are you still bothering? DMacks (talk) 12:04, 18 July 2021 (UTC)

You're right, I'm being very childish.I am being sincere in saying that & I'd like to thank you for making me see it. I've found Wikipaedia useful for things like cricket scores, but editing a very frustrating experience. I'll just leave like you say.

15:29, 19 July 2021 (UTC)

Questions about IPv6 and CIDR

When you reference "2001:8003:2308:a501::/64" here, is that an IPv6 equivalent of 1 IPV4 address (+ NAT), or a possible/probable CIDR block for the provider, or just the smallest block that captures all the IPV6 addresses used to make the changes in question? I've recently seen a number of IP edits from different IPV6 addresses in the same city, 1-2 edits per address, by (I believe) a topic-blocked editor on a mobile network with short IP leases (not "mobile edit" though), but idk enough about IPv6 to be sure and IPv6 address was opaque. Yappy2bhere (talk) 22:31, 18 July 2021 (UTC)

Yes, generally speaking, an IPv6 /64 is a single allocation to a customer, equivalent to an IPv4 single IP address. How the specific IPv6 are allocated within the customer's network is variable. Therefore it's possible that a "customer" might therefore re-distribute individual IPv6 or smaller subranges to various of its business units or users in in all sorts of ways. The WP blocking feature can handle ranges of various sizes. So if a single person is a problem, we might start by blocking their IPv4 specific IP or IPv6 /64. Then if they hop around, the range can be expanded by a few bits. DMacks (talk) 20:22, 19 July 2021 (UTC)
Thank you, that was clear and helpful. Yappy2bhere (talk) 22:10, 21 July 2021 (UTC)

21:09, 26 July 2021 (UTC)

Direct visualization of individual molecules

Hallo DMacks!

I want to exercise my right to talk to you about direct visualization of valence bonds. I think you will agree with me that the task of the encyclopedia is to cover not the model but nature. Therefore, a stylized image of a "textbook" model cannot be better than “direct visualization of individual molecules” (the title of the article). You mistakenly called the direct visualization a “technical image”. I think here I have misled the reader and this inaccuracy I can remove. You are probably right. Non-experts will fully understand the photo without the captioning. Samsiq (talk) 12:37, 28 July 2021 (UTC)

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20:45, 2 August 2021 (UTC)

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Hello

There isn’t much images of John Gray. There is no photos of him. I feel like the illustration better represents him than the movie image, so you can delete that. I found an illustration of John Gray in a magazine, but they was a really big watermark. Anyway, it doesn’t really matter if there is an image I guess. Sahaib3005 (talk) 19:07, 7 August 2021 (UTC)

DMacks

A user suffering from barnstaritis who has just received another barnstar

nice work on the mans page a mans man

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Redd_Foxx

— Preceding unsigned comment added by 186.69.189.65 (talk) 02:03, 9 August 2021 (UTC)

16:18, 9 August 2021 (UTC)

Niacinamide

Search google trends and compare niacinamide usage to nicotinamide and you’ll use of niacinamide far outweighs nicotinamide. You’re biased because nicotinamide is used more in science and you’re a chemist. Stop clinging to an old term. Ganymede94 (talk) 20:36, 8 August 2021 (UTC)

Please move the page back to niacinamide. Thanks. Ganymede94 (talk) 20:42, 8 August 2021 (UTC)

WP:RM is the process to follow. DMacks (talk) 05:49, 10 August 2021 (UTC)

Bisphosphonate table

Hello! I was impressed with the table of bisphosphonates listed on the wikipedia page. It looks like you made the table. I was wondering if you have a journal article (or articles) you referenced. If so, could I get the name of it/them? Thank you!!! — Preceding unsigned comment added by 152.132.10.2 (talk) 22:11, 4 August 2021 (UTC)

Glad you like! I did the formatting, but the information itself was there previously (dating back to 2004, when User:Jfdwolff first created the page). Following the links to the individual chemical's pages, I see some different values and more-recent references, so our article needs to be updated/verified. I spot-checked the references cited in Discovery and development of bisphosphonates#Structure activity relationship, and it looks like there may be some good data in some of them. Do you have a certain research topic/scope or experiment/protocol in mind? DMacks (talk) 02:11, 5 August 2021 (UTC)


Thanks for the help! I am writing an article about Bisphosphonate Induced osteonecrosis of the jaw and wanted to include a table like yours in the paper. I haven't seen one more succinct and quite as useful. My problem is that the scientific journals still don't like wikipedia as a reference so I thought the primary sources may allow me to cite one or build one that is similar without plagiarizing. Thanks again for your help.

I’m on semi-vacation next few days, will try to find more info and sources end of the week. DMacks (talk) 05:52, 10 August 2021 (UTC)

19:25, 16 August 2021 (UTC)

Request to unprotect Gabe Newell

I don't know the history, and it was quite some time ago, but it seems like any serious attempts at "Excessive violations of the biographies of living persons policy" have passed. Therefore, as the admin who blocked, I'm requesting you please remove the block. Rklahn (talk) 03:46, 14 August 2021 (UTC)

I knocked it down to WP:PEND and will watch it for a while (more eyes also welcome!) to see how it goes. DMacks (talk) 04:31, 14 August 2021 (UTC)
Sounds great. Thanks. Rklahn (talk) 06:06, 14 August 2021 (UTC)
I have this watchlisted and know the topic area. I'm ok with giving this a shot, but I suspect reprotection will be required before long. I can handle if DMacks doesn't want to watchlist for too long though. -- ferret (talk) 13:40, 14 August 2021 (UTC)
Thanks. We shall see I guess. DMacks (talk) 15:37, 14 August 2021 (UTC)
Re-hi. It's been, you know, a while. And I accepted your "more eyes" invitation. There seem to have been no ill effects. Can we go to "No protection?" "no" is a perfectly acceptable answer. I suspect you and others have more experience than I do in this area, and my "least protection is best" instinct here might not be right. Anyhow, thanks in advance. Rklahn (talk) 02:14, 23 August 2021 (UTC)

21:57, 23 August 2021 (UTC)

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20:33, 24 August 2021 (UTC)

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You removed the edit I made, referring to WP:MEDRS However, both of the sources; the National Center for Biotechnology Information https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8007208/ and EU Clinical Trials Register https://www.clinicaltrialsregister.eu/ctr-search/trial/2020-001782-37/SK are legitimate governmental sources. Could you please explain the reason for reversing my edit or why these sources are not deemed authoritative enough. --85.160.0.43 (talk) 20:24, 25 August 2021 (UTC)

"MEDRS" is not about whether the source is "legitimate" (not a well-defined term) or "authoritative" (again, not well-defined). The question is whether it is a primary research study or a secondary source such as a review article ("reliable source" is a wikipedia concept). See WP:MEDRS for examples clarifying the distinction. DMacks (talk) 06:07, 26 August 2021 (UTC)

Nylon 66

Can we talk more about the Nylon 66 article? I think there should be more about the zinc shortage in the article. I also think the spelling of 'Nylon 6,6' should be changed, or also feature, 'nylon-6,6'. CessnaMan1989 (talk) 15:34, 23 August 2021 (UTC)

Based on the ACS abstract, the role of zinc is to convert trans-1,2-dibromocyclohexane into cyclohexene. Cyclohexene is obviously a key reagent in some routes for the synthesis of adipic acid. But the only refs I see for the production of dibromocyclohexane have it coming from cyclohexene.
  1. cyclohexene --> dibromocyclohexane
  2. dibromocyclohexane --> cyclohexene
  3. cyclohexene --> nylon
So reaction (2) follows from reaction (1), and [1+2] doesn't seem commercially relevant to reaction (3). The refs for adipic acid and cyclohexene I find all indicate that it comes from benzene or cyclohexane via oxidation, with no dibromocyclohexane intermediate. The refs for the debromination in the context of nylon are as part of a multi-step undergraduate lab experiment that demonstrates cycling/reuse of chemicals, but that does not require that the cyclohexene used to make nylon come from the zinc reaction.
Conference presentations are not really considered reliable sources (and this one is primary research for the novel alternative), which are general concerns for using this reference. Do you have a published journal ref for reaction (2), using zinc, being used in a commercial route for nylon?
Regarding the article name, the first sentence gives several different variants of punctuation. I don't know off-hand why "nylon 66" was chosen as the main name. But I do sometimes see it with hyphen instead of space between the word "nylon" and the numbers, so I would support including "nylon-6,6" as an additional synonym. DMacks (talk) 06:40, 26 August 2021 (UTC)

15:59, 30 August 2021 (UTC)

I just changed the photo

Hello! I just change a photo please i want to change photo but why everyone reverts? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Syed89 (talkcontribs) 07:43, 2 September 2021 (UTC)

Someone else disagrees. Wikipedia is not an anarchy. If someone disagrees, you have to talk to that other person and sort it out. That is one of our behavioral standards here. DMacks (talk) 11:23, 2 September 2021 (UTC)

I add a image to Hasan ibn Ali And Husayn ibn Ali why you removed? Please i wan to add the image. Syed89 (talk) 11:31, 2 September 2021 (UTC)

Stop please removing my image Please i request you. Syed89 (talk) 11:35, 2 September 2021 (UTC)

You should not be surprised that asking the same question two more times will get the same answer two more times.
User:Syed89, you were edit-warring against another editor rather than discussing your alternate image with the editor who disagrees with it. As admin, I am stamping out the edit-war because it is against Wikipedia behavioral policy, and have noted both the problem and the appropriate way to go about getting consensus support for your proposed change. I am not taking a position on the merit of the change itself. DMacks (talk) 13:35, 2 September 2021 (UTC)

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15:19, 6 September 2021 (UTC)

September 2021

please read my argument on Ravi Shankar (spiritual leader)'s talk page. thank you. Uttarpradeshi (talk) 09:42, 7 September 2021 (UTC)

15:31, 13 September 2021 (UTC)

Spam related.

hello, sir I don't know you. But want to left a message. I don't know the procedure how to contact you. I am not going to lie. Whatever I say is the truth. Let me explain myself. My name is ayan as you know. My website is 3 years old, and I have worked hard for it. I watched on youtube how to get genuine links that's why I did that. But these links in no way are spam. You can read all the links. These all links were related to the article. I have not put any spam. I have just put links that are related. I accept my mistake. I promise you that I will never ever try to spam. I also promise you that I will never ever try to put my websites link on Wikipedia ever. My request is please don't harm my website. I have worked hard for it. Please, sir. You can block it in Wikipedia but do not block it on Google and everywhere else. please don't harm it. If possible do not block it here on Wikipedia as well, my site will become popular one day I promise that day someone else will give my sites reference. I know that. All I can do is tell you that I didn't mean to harm anyone. Please don't do this to me. I can only request. Thank You — Preceding unsigned comment added by Ayan k. shrivastava (talkcontribs) 08:00, 13 September 2021 (UTC)

Thanks for complying with our terms of service and associated behavioral standards. DMacks (talk) 15:38, 13 September 2021 (UTC)

Ash Manor School - guardian angel

Thanks for reverting vandalism to the Ash Manor School article. It is happening again and the comments are completely unjustified. I am reluctant to revert it myself because I am personally connected to the school. Will you do the honours please? Gaius Cornelius (talk) 15:53, 18 September 2021 (UTC)

 Done Thanks for letting me know. DMacks (talk) 21:26, 18 September 2021 (UTC)

Re-created shortly after you deleted it. Spammy user, clearly WP:NOTHERE. Have reported to WP:AIV unless you give them a wiki-slap first. 10mmsocket (talk) 08:03, 20 September 2021 (UTC)

Indef'ed. Thanks for the heads-up. DMacks (talk) 08:06, 20 September 2021 (UTC)

18:29, 20 September 2021 (UTC)

Global lock

I think User:Chyan khoro be globally blocked as they are uploading highly inappropriate content on Commons. TheBirdsShedTears (talk) 14:32, 24 September 2021 (UTC)

User: AntiCompositeNumber blocked them on commons. Their other edits seem to be to urpedia and I have no idea if they are valid or not. DMacks (talk) 16:41, 24 September 2021 (UTC)
Looking with google-translate, those are definitely also inappropriate. I requested the global-lock (not a power I have myself). DMacks (talk) 16:49, 24 September 2021 (UTC)

Re: Kent Hovind edit

His convict status is not just based on his tax evasion, but more recently due to his conviction on charges of domestic violence against his ex-wife. He deserves to have this recognized in the intro to his article. — Preceding unsigned comment added by PrateekLala (talkcontribs) 18:25, 26 September 2021 (UTC)

Take it to talkpage. Definitely don't edit-war, as you'll simply be blocked and won't even get a chance to make your case. Also don't forget to WP:SIGN your talkpage comments, so it's clear who is saying what. DMacks (talk) 19:00, 26 September 2021 (UTC)

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22:20, 27 September 2021 (UTC)

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