User talk:Gridwire

Welcome!

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Deleted page "David Cooper (composer)"

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Lauren Vélez

Gridwire, How you doing? First of all let me wish you a Happy Holidays. The problem with copying the page to Lauren Vélez was this: Somebody, had taken the contents from the article "Lauren and Loraine Velez" and posted it there some time ago and therefore, when I found this out I created a redirect. A few days ago, I decided to divide the "Lauren and Loraine Velez" into two articles, one for each sister and posted it under "Lauren Velez" and "Loraine Velez". By coping or better phrased "pasted" the article to Lauren Vélez the history page of the original creator (me) was not moved. What I did was to delete the page and then move the original copy with its original history page.

In the future, instead of pasting an article to a new page, move it and thereby you will be moving the pages history and talk pages as well. If you ever have any questions in Wiki and you believe that I can be of any help, please do not hesitate to ask. Your friend in Wiki Tony the Marine 03:02, 23 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for fixing the problems and Happy Holidays + Merry Christmas to you too! :) Gridwire 11:30, 23 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Cancelled TV series cfd

FYI, I have placed Category:Cancelled TV series on the cfd board for discussion and either deletion or renaming/redefining/changing its parent category. This category appears to have some problems in how it is defined.

Please feel free to include your input at the discussion at [1]. (I'd recommend keeping comments on the discussion at that link as opposed to here so other people can see them.) I included my reasons for the cfd at that link, so I won't bother rehashing it here. I'm not sure whether the category should be deleted, restricted, or simply have its parent category changed, so the cfd is pretty open-ended depending on consensus. Dugwiki 17:30, 2 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Editing with Tor ?

I would like to contribute wikipedia as much as possible but it's just getting harder and harder now when the administrators are over-anxiously blocking Tor exit nodes. Is there anything anyone can do to bypass the blocks (the way that doesn't include disabling Tor)? Thank you :) Gridwire 13:19, 13 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Hmm... my understanding for some time has been that we generally block Tor "anon-only," so that users with existing accounts should be able to edit using it. (In short: can't edit anon, can't register, but able to edit, once registered). I don't know everything, but I haven't seen any discussion regarding a change in that general practice (we have, however, been dealing with some particularly malicious socks, recently). I'd suggest unblock requests mentioning the relevant IPs, asking for soft blocks; the other option is posting to the admin noticeboard or mailing unblock-en-l to request assistance. Hope that helps! Luna Santin 13:33, 13 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Ok. Thanks a lot. When I registered I noticed the "you are blocked" messages appeared less often, but now they are appearing more often than not. I'm going to request unblocking for a Tor exit node IP when one of them gets blocked next time. Gridwire 13:53, 13 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

What vandalism?

You told me that my changes to the Terrence Steadman article may be considered vandalism if I kept doing it. On the contrary, I have actually been reverting vandalism to that article the past couple days. Somebody keeps adding nonsense about Steadman "crapping his pants" and I have been deleting it. Someone else deleted the Prison Break template and appropriate categories for Steadman, and so I had to add them again.

Another change I had made was the sentence that mentioned his suicide. Instead of "he committed suicide with one of Kellerman's pistols to avoid owning up to all the pain he has caused" (paraphrased) I made it "he committed suicide with one of Kellerman's pistols to avoid a prison sentence", which I thought was more accurate. Please explain why you consider this significant enough to heed a warning.

205.206.239.39 23:02, 25 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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