User talk:J.delanoy/Archive 10

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October 1, 2008 — October 31, 2008

Removal of active block message

Hello J. I saw your edit summary on User talk:Rtvybo787 about the removal of an active block message. I was unaware of that. I always thought this and this were the guidelines. Can you point me in the right direction on this? Toddst1 (talk) 16:35, 29 September 2008 (UTC)

AFAIK there are still only 3 things that are not to be removed: Declined unblock requests while the block is active, Shared IP notices, and confirmed sockpuppetry notices. Per WP:BLANKING. –xeno (talk) 16:40, 29 September 2008 (UTC)

I hope my question came across ok. I wasn't being sarcastic. It's a strange and often misunderstood rule and the weird part is the rules sometimes change. Cheers. Toddst1 (talk) 05:16, 1 October 2008 (UTC)

3RR question

Hi J.delanoy, just wanted your opinion on this because you looked active right now. Am I handling this correctly by removing what I see as spam links from these disambig pages? Will I be subject to 3RR if I continue? Thanks, Darkspots (talk) 22:49, 29 September 2008 (UTC)

Nice move with the French WP. Thanks! (You forgot to sign his talk page, btw) Darkspots (talk) 23:04, 29 September 2008 (UTC)

So....he's still at it. [1] I'm not reverting again because of 3RR—it seems like a gray area, whether or not my reversions count as a content dispute or as vandalism reverts. I warned him for 3RR, but I'm not sure of my ground here. Thanks, Darkspots (talk) 13:54, 30 September 2008 (UTC)

The icing on the gâteau for me is that it's extremely likely that he's Canadian and (also/therefore) speaks perfectly good English—highlighting your point even further. Darkspots (talk) 14:56, 30 September 2008 (UTC)

secondary sex characteristic

Did you bother reading my rationale on the talk page? How on earth is what I have done - remove a clearly non encyclopedic photo which fails to show one of the most prominent secondary sex caharacteristics of a woman - vandalism? It's having mis-information like this that makes Wikipedia a laughing stock. 86.150.96.24 (talk) 15:04, 30 September 2008 (UTC)

72.14.172.170

Dear J.delanoy, after I saw IP 72.14.172.170 vandalizing your talkpage, I reported it to Wikipedia:Administrator intervention against vandalism. After I reported it, I visited its talkpage only to discover that you blocked it for 55 hours! :-) AdjustShift (talk) 15:15, 30 September 2008 (UTC)

User is "peeved" at me

This user 86.150.96.24 (talk) is "peeved" because I removed his picture. His was replacing one that had been there for months. I think I am correct... but as you know, I have been wrong before. His aggressive attitude is what puts me off I guess. At any rate... if I'm wrong... let me know please. PS: You relaize I only put stuff on your talk page to keep you but so I can Huggle faster than you ! ;-) --CanadianLinuxUser (talk) 15:34, 30 September 2008 (UTC)

Thanks for signing my guestbook

		The Random Acts of Kindness Barnstar
		Thank you for signing my guestbook. LAA Fan

Congrats on being the 70th user to sign my guestbook. ;)--LAA Fan^sign _review 01:22, 1 October 2008 (UTC)

Thanks again, this time for the compliment. A comment like that from an admin is very valuable. :)--LAA Fan^sign _review 03:55, 1 October 2008 (UTC)

LAAFan has smiled at you! Smiles promote WikiLove and hopefully this one has made your day better. Spread the WikiLove by smiling at someone else, whether it be someone you have had disagreements with in the past or a good friend. Cheers, and happy editing!
Smile at others by adding {{subst:Smile}} to their talk page with a friendly message.

Reversion of Child Support

Ah, I feel more welcome already. It would be nice if instead of simply reverting my work on Child Support you provide an "informative edit summary". Removing external links can be contentious but the section was tagged and their was no discussion on the talk page. I'm sure a compromise can be reached, if you care to discuss this onTalk:Child_support.→(_Speak•^MorgothX•_Havoc) 03:32, 1 October 2008 (UTC)

I just saw that huggle thing, the revert was probably a mistake. There was vandalism on the page, though not from my edit. I removed it later. If huggle or whatever is causing these mistakes it could end up hurting things worse than regular vandals! →(_Speak•^MorgothX•_Havoc) 03:48, 1 October 2008 (UTC)

Userpage code.

How do you hide the contents of your userpage so that it dispalys that little "TO VANDALS: Where did the information go?" thing? I would like to know so I can have that protection on my userpage. Thank you. Vandalism destroyer (talk) 03:41, 1 October 2008 (UTC)

Before the text you want to hide, use  . That should do it. Useight (talk) 03:57, 1 October 2008 (UTC)

That only hides text so that it doesn't appear on the page. It still appears in the edit box. I want the exact opposite. I want the contents of my userpage to only appear on the page itself, and not the edit box, so that vandals can't touch it. Vandalism destroyer (talk) 14:55, 1 October 2008 (UTC)

Put the text on a subpage, and {{name of subpage}} on your userpage. It won't stop vandals editing it but it'll make it harder. You can't prevent people editing your page – see that "anyone can edit" on every page? – iridescent 16:05, 1 October 2008 (UTC)

I just did it for you, VD. this is your real page. J.delanoy ^gabs _adds 16:10, 1 October 2008 (UTC)

Hey, thank you. I appreciate it. Vandalism destroyer (talk) 16:14, 1 October 2008 (UTC)

Sure, why not? Vandalism destroyer (talk) 16:17, 1 October 2008 (UTC)

They're going after my talk page now, changing my comments so that they are offensive. I assume that I really can't do anything about users vandalizing my talk page. Vandalism destroyer (talk) 03:42, 2 October 2008 (UTC)

Perhaps you could get it semi-protected. Useight (talk) 03:57, 2 October 2008 (UTC)

Thanks

Dear J.delanoy, thanks for blocking 65.18.10.144. Have a nice day! :-) AdjustShift (talk) 17:28, 1 October 2008 (UTC)

Rollback?

I heard/seen you take rollback requests, and I was wondering if you could consider me? Thanks. Message from XENU^{u, t} 19:30, 1 October 2008 (UTC)

No problem. :) Message from XENU^{u, t} 19:55, 1 October 2008 (UTC)

Happy First Edit Day!

Hey, JD. I forgot to give this message to you a little earlier today, but because today is 1 October...

Happy First Edit Day, J.delanoy/Archive 10, from the Wikipedia Birthday Committee! Have a great night!

SchfiftyThree 01:26, 2 October 2008 (UTC)

User talk:87.112.21.192

When browsing Wikipedia without logging in I received this message:

" Welcome to Wikipedia. The recent edit you made to Phineas Flynn has been reverted, as it appears to be unconstructive. Use the sandbox for testing; if you believe the edit was constructive, ensure that you provide an informative edit summary. You may also wish to read the introduction to editing. Thanks. J.delanoy ^gabs _adds 18:54, 6 July 2008 (UTC)"

I have neither edited Phineas Flynn nor heard of him. I am a registered Wikipedian and do not make anonymous edits. No-one else has access to my PC. If 87.112.21.192 is my IP, then someone, somehow is using my IP anonymously. I know neither where to find my PC's IP nor how someone else could clone it. If you can help me with either of these questions please contact me! Motacilla (talk) 13:29, 2 October 2008 (UTC)

Anonymous user repeat of violations

Sorry to bother you with this, but it appears that anonymous user 202.89.32.166 (talk · contribs) is still posting material for which [s]he was blocked. C.f.

The same IP is also posting aggressive comments on the Talk:Electron page. [S]he seems to have a particular agenda against modern electron physics. I am unsure of the proper approach, since the editor is dancing the fine edge of trolling.—RJH (talk) 19:41, 2 October 2008 (UTC)

Re:

You're totally welcome. Good block too! Pinkadelica (talk) 06:52, 3 October 2008 (UTC)

I would have gone with a much longer one, myself. :P GlassCobra 09:04, 3 October 2008 (UTC)

Nah, you're fine. Go ahead and get some rest, buddy, we'll take it from here. :) GlassCobra 09:39, 3 October 2008 (UTC)

Thanks

Thanks for that. That was...er...kinda scary that they knew my full name etc. Cheers again —— RyanLupin • (talk) 21:55, 17 September 2008 (UTC)

I see he's using a dynamic IP to harass you now :| —— RyanLupin • (talk) 22:51, 18 September 2008 (UTC)

Sorry, that IP kinda freaked me out so until he stops with the scary harassment, I think it should stay deleted. Thanks —— RyanLupin • (talk) 23:11, 18 September 2008 (UTC)

Thanks again *sighs* —— RyanLupin • (talk) 18:46, 19 September 2008 (UTC)

Well as you can see, the guy just keeps coming back. What's the 'tool' you acquired? —— RyanLupin • (talk) 20:43, 22 September 2008 (UTC)

In case you haven't already seen it, this might interest you —— RyanLupin • (talk) 11:08, 23 September 2008 (UTC)

Yes, please protect it, thanks :) —— RyanLupin • (talk) 21:20, 29 September 2008 (UTC)

Why on earth do I keep attracting attention from the wrong people? o_O Thanks again ——Possum (talk) 15:36, 3 October 2008 (UTC)

I didn't react at all in this instance, instead I continued to revert as normal. It was only when the harasser guy started texting/emailing me when I started to get panicky ——Possum (talk) 15:56, 3 October 2008 (UTC)

No, the guy threatening legal action I'm pretty sure was just a troll and he's left me be. I was referring to my dramatic behaviour back when I was harassed. I received text messages, phonecalls, emails etc. That's why I asked for my userpage be deleted. I'm just saying, I don't always react badly, only if there's a good reason XD ——Possum (talk) 16:00, 3 October 2008 (UTC)

Oh believe me the police have been informed (see diff) but British Police being British Police have done nothing thus far. Ho hum :) ——Possum (talk) 16:13, 3 October 2008 (UTC)

XF Law

Hi J.delanoy, sorry for a late response to this, I've been on a break the last few weeks. While this user now has rollback anyway, I would have said yes to granting the request. Best wishes. Acalamari 16:37, 3 October 2008 (UTC)

RE: Your edits

Hi Techman!

I just wanted to let you know that I have been watching you, and all of your reversions that I looked seem good, as did your AIV reports. I think you may be a little overzealous with your UAA reports; you may want to read WP:USERNAME for a refresher, and please remember that UAA is only intended for blatant violations.

Basically, just keep up the good work with your reversions and AIV reports, and do take a minute to read the page I linked to!

Cheers!

J.delanoy ^gabs _adds 16:37, 3 October 2008 (UTC)

What do you mean by "blatant" usernames? Techman224 (talk) 16:50, 3 October 2008 (UTC)

Thanks. Techman224 (talk) 17:42, 3 October 2008 (UTC)

Question

Hi I have a question. The reason I'm asking you is because, being an administrator, you would know far more than myself or most editors. If you go to the King Kong vs Godzilla page and look under the "Legacy" section, the last paragraph talks about a script for sale (including a website link). Is it OK to leave that in there? It seems to me script solicitation on a Wikipedia page would violate some sort of policy or rule since it seems to be a form of advertising. Is that the case?Giantdevilfish (talk) 17:42, 3 October 2008 (UTC)

Great. Thanks for the reply. It just seemed wrong to me for someone to use an online encyclopedia to advertise a script, but I just wanted to make sure that was the case which is why I asked. Cheers!Giantdevilfish (talk) 18:12, 3 October 2008 (UTC)

Buckshot (Rapper) cousin Stones

What's up J. Delanoy I see you've made extensive contributions to the rappers Buckshot bio page and I was wondering if you could and would help me create a decent page for his cousin Stones. I have extensive information on him and was wondering why the wiki site does not feature any article of him considering him and buckshot has appeared in photos, footage, and events with each other not to mention he has co-signs from Brownsville legends such as Smoothe da hustler along with Buck and I think he is also close with St. Laz who's another up and coming Brownsville emcee that's not feautured on this site. I would love to make a page for those two but considering that I am new to this site I don't know how to with out it being deleted from the site within a matter of days. If need be you can check out either one of their myspace pages for some information of your own ,myspace/STONESMUZIK and myspace/STLAZPOTTERSFIELD. I would be very greatful if you were to help me because if you too are a lover of hip hop I know you can tell that Brownsville emcees are some of the most potent from M.O.P. to Heltah Skeltah, AZ and even some of the WU Members. Thank you in advance, Peace. —Preceding unsigned comment added by HipHopDoc (talk • contribs) 19:38, 3 October 2008 (UTC)

Vandalism originating from 216.56.60.210

I noticed that you recently left a warning to 216.56.60.210 regarding vandalism. The same anonymous user, just prior to that, removed all the previous (multiple) warnings from their talk page. I'm unfamiliar with the protocol for this situation, as I do not want to remove your warning in order to restore the previous ones, and I suspect that the nature of your warning will change once that user's talk page has been restored. So, I'm kind of dropping it in your lap, hoping that I will one day be able to better handle similar situations myself. Thanks so much for your help. Steamroller Assault (talk) 00:57, 4 October 2008 (UTC)

Hey Steamroller, this popped up on my watchlist and I thought I'd help out. Users (and anons) are free to remove items from their own talk pages, per this guideline, however doing so is taken as evidence that they have read and understood the messages, and little of the same vandalism is generally tolerated. Hope this helps. – Toon ^(talk) 01:23, 4 October 2008 (UTC)

AIV Reports

Aaah, thanks for the compliment, but don't hurt yourself! We can't afford to lose someone as effective as you to carpel tunnel from blocking too many IPs... DARTH PANDA^talk 19:46, 3 October 2008 (UTC)

Thanks! I know, I was mostly kidding too, but if you get carpel tunnel, I wouldn't be able to stop blaming myself... DARTH PANDA^talk 18:38, 4 October 2008 (UTC)

The 2008 King Kong vs Godzilla screenplay is real and not advertising.

That is real and undisputed. Here is additional verification that it is real:

The US Copyright Registered number is PAu003075664. You have full access to verify this with the US Copyright Office. As for a verifiable source, you can contact the President of Toho Eiga, Mr. Shougo Tomiyama at Toho Pictures Inc., 1-4-1 Setagawa-Ku, Seijyou, Tokyo, Japan 157-8561. Phone: 81-3-3591-1211

東宝　映画〒157-8561　東京都世田谷区成城1-4-1

Is that enough of a source? Thank you for your contibutions. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Spock seat (talk • contribs) 04:34, 4 October 2008 (UTC)

I don't mean to butt in here, but whether its a copyrighted script or not, the site still lists it as being solicited for sale. If this script was sold and in production then fine. But its a script being shopped around. That seems to me to be a form of advertsing as in trying to sell a script.Giantdevilfish (talk) 04:44, 4 October 2008 (UTC)

Not only that, but the text is badly written even if it weren't advertising. The two links are the same, it's badly punctuated, the number of pages is unnecessary detail, and it's generally unencyclopedic. —KCinDC (talk) 04:55, 4 October 2008 (UTC)

A poor quality page is not a good reason for deletion in most cases. Tombomp (talk/contribs) 18:39, 4 October 2008 (UTC)

Alternate acc't

Hiya... the box I'm using on my alternate is one I found in the category of message templates for doing so. I'm not quite understanding why it looks like I'm running a sock.. could you explain? Prince of Canada^{t | c} 08:42, 5 October 2008 (UTC)

Hee! You didn't waste my time, I'm glad you brought it up if you felt there was an issue. NOW GO TO BED! Prince of Canada^{t | c} 08:47, 5 October 2008 (UTC)

Thankyou

Thankyou for being a pleasure to work with during my time on WP, I really appreciate it. You've even got a mention on my userpage. ;) Lradrama 07:15, 6 October 2008 (UTC)

Thank you

Thanks J for your help and your reply —Preceding unsigned comment added by HipHopDoc (talk • contribs) 16:19, 6 October 2008 (UTC)

fine

but i will be back tomorrow, byeNo Hollaback Girl (talk) 02:46, 7 October 2008 (UTC)

Your block of User:Vrraybadboy76

Nicely done - you may want to also look at User:72.135.25.233 and User:Vrraybadboy78. Similar "styles" of vandalism, and all three of them vandalized the WGN disambiguation page with the same content. Mlaffs (talk) 16:49, 7 October 2008 (UTC)

My Talk Page

Ta for that. Very quick - beat me to it by miles... Peridon (talk) 18:17, 7 October 2008 (UTC)

Nice block ;)

You learn quickly, grasshoppah. *bows* GlassCobra 18:43, 7 October 2008 (UTC)

Heh, I've made some decently rouge blocks myself. Meh. Anyway, no, I don't have Huggle, and I'm actually leaving to go out in a bit. I'm sorry, I'll help manually as long as I can. :( GlassCobra 18:51, 7 October 2008 (UTC)

Yeah, I've heard Huggle's not in very good shape. Hopefully it gets fixed up soon, eh? GlassCobra 18:54, 7 October 2008 (UTC)

Is this Ok

User_talk:86.9.208.244 —Preceding unsigned comment added by 59.95.101.133 (talk) 19:03, 7 October 2008 (UTC)

Thanks

Hi J.delanoy, thank you for the semi-protection of ☻! Korg (talk) 19:38, 7 October 2008 (UTC)

http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:Robinsst&action=edit

Spam-only account. Sam ^Blab 19:41, 7 October 2008 (UTC)

Hammer? Sam ^Blab 19:42, 7 October 2008 (UTC)

thanks

for watching my back :) Vishnava_talk 21:15, 7 October 2008 (UTC)

Can I steal...

Hello there, can you send me the template for the notification used on your userpage, invented by Happy-Melon on the small fury animal, I like it. Stealing it would be satisfying, but your wiki-abilitys are far superior to mine, so I have no idea how to get around the page-hiding you have employed. Cheers, oh and yes do please reply on my talk page. Philip.t.day (talk) 21:31, 7 October 2008 (UTC)

thank you. Philip.t.day (talk) 21:45, 7 October 2008 (UTC)

vandalism?

why? Tenka is really a genus of Agaonidae!--Huhukoko (talk) 22:36, 7 October 2008 (UTC)

Thank you

for reverting the vandalism of my user page. DoubleBlue (Talk) 22:52, 7 October 2008 (UTC)

Howdy!

Hello, J.delanoy ... I noticed that you have a Here about a speedy delete? message like mine. :-)

Just wanted to know your opinion of the Flag templates for deletion warnings and the FLAG-protocols that I developed to address what I thought was a problem with the existing system, i.e., some deletions being Too Hasty.

Happy Editing! — 72.75.82.202 (talk · contribs) _{23:16, 7 October 2008 (UTC)}

Mr. Defender

		The Defender of the Wiki Barnstar
		For your great amount of vandal reverting and vandal fighting. I'd also like to thank you for reverting the vandalism done to my userpage and blocking the individual that had done so. DiverseMentality^(Boo!) 23:40, 7 October 2008 (UTC)

How do you revert so fast?

When I try to revert "blanked the page", I noticed that you have already reverted it while I was trying to. I do view the recent changes list, but how do you eliminate the edit so fast? Do you use a software program? I wouldn't think it's vandalproof, because that has been disabled. Do you use anything, or do you just manage to click through the links to revert it so fast? -- IRP ☎ 23:41, 7 October 2008 (UTC)

Rianxo

I still not understanding why you had reverted my article Rianxo and after you "undoing own edit". If you watch what I have made in that article, you understand that wasn't an unconstructive contribution. Please, do not revert articles without see what we had made on them. Thanks. 84.90.92.195 (talk) 00:16, 8 October 2008 (UTC)

Question

Hi - I wanted to ask you about this article, where an anonymous IP editor is constantly reverting to assert that Kosovo is part of Serbia. Now in my judgment this is a content dispute which is not really vandalism, and I do not wish to partake in a revert war. But I reverted an edit he made which had an edit summary carrying a threat. Question: can his edits, owing to his edit summary/attitude, be construed as vandalism? Did I do properly to revert with Huggle, or should I leave such edits alone? Vishnava_talk 00:21, 8 October 2008 (UTC)

Considering his edit summary, I'd say it is vandalism so I doubt any admin is gonna block you for WP:3RR--Xp54321^{(Hello! • Contribs)} 00:24, 8 October 2008 (UTC)

Thanks to you both! I want to be perfectly cautious not to violate any policy here by improper use of Huggle. Vishnava_talk 00:34, 8 October 2008 (UTC)

Thank you

Thanks for reverting vandalism on my user page. I think I might have pissed off an infamous puppet-master. Wronkiew (talk) 00:30, 8 October 2008 (UTC)

Don't worry about it unless you get tired of reverting. Wronkiew (talk) 00:41, 8 October 2008 (UTC)

Thanks and also

Thanks for the revert. But the IP went to a different one 76.92.185.166 and reverted your edit back to theirs. Rgoodermote 00:35, 8 October 2008 (UTC)

Cheers to you too, mate. I can feel the love from the vandals today. Rgoodermote 00:41, 8 October 2008 (UTC)

Can you monitor my talk page? S/He is just going and going and going and is reminding me of the bunny...forgot the battery. Rgoodermote 00:44, 8 October 2008 (UTC)

Thanks mate, I can't deal with a lot of vandalism on my talk pages right now. Things are going too fast and getting too busy. Rgoodermote 01:02, 8 October 2008 (UTC)

Crstyle

Please Delete That Page Its Just a kid that haves a youtube page and put up a profile of himself —Preceding unsigned comment added by The4's (talk • contribs) 01:59, 8 October 2008 (UTC)

J-Flexx

i am trying to fix the j-flexx section and add two albums by deleting off his page and put that info into the album information I know about rap and you dont so im going to improve it ok. —Preceding unsigned comment added by The4's (talk • contribs) 02:25, 8 October 2008 (UTC)

RFA Thanks

J.delanoy, I'd like to thank you for voting in my RFA. Thanks also for your kind words of support, and I hope that I live up to your expectations. Don't forget, if you have any questions (or bits of advice), please leave a message on my talk page. Thanks again, Spencer^T♦^C 02:48, 8 October 2008 (UTC)

how did yu get this job with wikipedia?

so how did you get it? 199.107.237.180 (talk) 03:42, 8 October 2008 (UTC)

Your revert on Ellis Island

Hi, you reverted the blankening of the article but failed to check the last edit before that. It was nonsense and should have been reverted as well. Please be a bit more careful. Thanks and greetings. --h-stt !? 11:49, 8 October 2008 (UTC)

Questions about Huggle

Hi. I'm a newbie editor with intentions of becoming a functional recent changes patroller. While I was checking out the Recent Changes page, I noticed you revert a lot of vandalism (kudos to you on that mate), but not just that –you are unbelievably fast. I definitely don't think I'm the fastest around here, but I'm definitely not slow either, yet when I get to the page, I always find you've already reverted it! I might not sleep at night if I have to assume this is the result of human training; I mean, can you really be that fast without the aid of something?

So, I read you use Huggle. I'd like to try it out, but a couple of things confuse me. Maybe you could clarify them for me, since you say you can help with the vandalism tools? Pretty please with sugar on top? :)

The questions would be:

Is Huggle even functoinal anymore? On its page (I assume) it says MEDIAWIKI CHANGES/BUGS HAVE BROKEN HUGGLE. USE SOMETHING ELSE. THANKS. So... yeah. Kind of confused here. If it is unstable (or something), how long has it been this way? And do you think it might work properly again? (If it's broken in some way in the first place, of course)
Is Huggle the reason you edit at the speed of light? Or do you just possess inhuman, godlike speed? I might just worship you if you do :D Or at least give you some sort of barnstar.
Do I absolutely need rollback rights to use it? Or can I just do less things with it without having rollback rights? I want to know if I can fight vandalism better without having to apply for a privilege I don't fully understand and probably wouldn't get in a million years.

Any help on any/all of these questions is greatly appreciated. --QuadrivialMind (talk) 03:45, 8 October 2008 (UTC)

Thanks a lot for your answers mate. If I have more questions about the vandal fighter thingamabobs, I'll be sure ask you :)

And yes, you can call me Quad, lol. --QuadrivialMind (talk) 17:19, 8 October 2008 (UTC)

Huggle

Whilst rollbacking using recent changes, i noticed that you are able to use huggle. May i ask which version you are using, and and if you have any knowlege of the current huggle problm? Thanks. Montgomery' 39 (talk) 15:23, 8 October 2008 (UTC)

My gods man, think of the stalkers

You should start replying here and/or replying both places, and or placing a diff-link to your reply here =) –xeno (talk) 15:25, 8 October 2008 (UTC)

Done[2] J.delanoy ^gabs _adds 15:39, 8 October 2008 (UTC)

Excellent. For the newer users you should still copy your reply to their page or ping them to come back and read. dats what I do. –xeno (talk) 15:46, 8 October 2008 (UTC)

about.com

Is about.com considered a reliable source? I am currently editing an article that uses about.com almost exclusively. It does not look kosher to me, and would appreciate the benefit of your experience. ---RepublicanJacobite_{The'FortyFive'} 15:41, 8 October 2008 (UTC)

According to our article about it, About.com is an online source for original information and advice [...] The site’s content is dynamic, attempting to keep up with new information and changing consumer interests.". So I would say that it is not reliable, since apparently pretty much anyone can say anything and they don't have to back it up like we do here. J.delanoy ^gabs _adds 15:44, 8 October 2008 (UTC)

That is precisely what I thought. I am removing the references, which will, unfortunately, leave the article almost wholly unreferenced. Alas... ---RepublicanJacobite_{The'FortyFive'} 15:47, 8 October 2008 (UTC)

Vandalism block, thanks.

[3]. Nice. Fast. I won't be surprised to see more of this from 87.112-87.115, which is the floating IP range for a provider used by ~~both~~ the banned User:Fredrick day ~~and the blocked User:Oxyman42, which may or may not be independent users. Quite a coincidence if they are. (The only two very active users attempting to harass me are co-located?).~~? Anyway, thanks. Not worth spending a lot of time on this, they will just reboot the modem. --Abd (talk) 16:42, 8 October 2008 (UTC)

Yeah, I'll just block them as they show up. It's not hard, and it requires more effort on their part than on mine. Cheers! J.delanoy ^gabs _adds 16:43, 8 October 2008 (UTC)

Whack-a-mole is actually kind of fun, if a bit brainless. --Abd (talk) 16:50, 8 October 2008 (UTC)

Pretty much. I remember one day someone vandalized an article with several different IP addresses, so I semi-protected it, since the mainspace actually matters. They then vandalized my talk page with "Ha, I sure pwned that article". I reverted and blocked. He came back again saying "I have unlimited IP address". rv, block. He kept this up for quite a while actually, and I just kept swinging the banhammer, and I refused to protect my page. After a while, he just stopped. Most vandals are like that. J.delanoy ^gabs _adds 16:54, 8 October 2008 (UTC)

Revert on user talk

Just as a note, I have undone your revert, I like to keep all messages for reference, unless they violate guidelines or whatever of course. Whilst it does perhaps constitute a personal attack, I'd prefer it be left. Just letting you know, you did indeed do the right thing, I just like to keep everything in one place. — neuro^(talk) 17:03, 8 October 2008 (UTC)

That is not a problem, it's your talk page. I just read it as a personal attack since you had reverted him, so I removed it. J.delanoy ^gabs _adds 17:04, 8 October 2008 (UTC)

G7 revert

Seems Huggle is being odd, I told it to leave it alone. Then again, it's not like it's being a happy bunny at the moment as it is. — neuro^(talk) 18:24, 8 October 2008 (UTC)

Oh, in that case, sorry for yelling at you. Here's hoping Gurch gets a new version out soon... J.delanoy ^gabs _adds 18:26, 8 October 2008 (UTC)

You have nothing to apologise for. Have a good day, mate. :) — neuro^(talk) 18:28, 8 October 2008 (UTC)

Wiki Cookie

I think you deserve this for your very hard work in fighting vandalism and make wikipedia not suck! Lol!

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Thank you! J.delanoy ^gabs _adds 18:56, 8 October 2008 (UTC)

You are very welcome! AtheWeatherman (talk) 19:10, 8 October 2008 (UTC)

Your Quote

Hey again J. Is it ok if I use your Mark Twain quote, I just think it is awesome and I think it is perfect for me. AtheWeatherman (talk) 19:22, 8 October 2008 (UTC)

Yep, feel free to ~~steal~~borrow anything you want. Funnily enough, I stole that quote from Jennavecia. J.delanoy ^gabs _adds 19:23, 8 October 2008 (UTC)

Thanks a lot and I ~~hate~~ love the strikethrough! AtheWeatherman (talk • contribs) 19:28, 8 October 2008 (UTC

Deleted Eagle Mountain, Utah edit

J. Delanoy - I have been trying to delete the current entry for Eagle Mountain, Utah under the History of Mayors section because it is full of personal attacks and a subjective view of the history, which I understand to be against Wikipedia's policies.

I am a representative of Eagle Mountain City and am trying to make our entry based on facts an verifiable information only, and yet I am the one who is being threatened to be banned from editing this page.

Please tell me how I may get this corrected permanently so that those who are truly vandalizing this page may be banned.

Thank you.

208.186.134.103 (talk) 19:37, 8 October 2008 (UTC)

Ip wanting to be unblocked

193.120.116.177 - Reason - "But did you do a 3 month ban last time? 0_o". Rory the vandal-fighter (talk) 19:55, 8 October 2008 (UTC)

Already done by Xenocidal Rory the vandal-fighter (talk) 19:58, 8 October 2008 (UTC)

Some people are really weird.... Oh, well. J.delanoy ^gabs _adds 19:59, 8 October 2008 (UTC)

From what I can gather it's a good faith brother and a vandal brother... Or someone with MPD... –xeno (talk) 20:02, 8 October 2008 (UTC)

Right. Looking out for more... Goodbye. Rory the vandal-fighter (talk) 20:07, 8 October 2008 (UTC)

More requests... same old IP. Rory the vandal-fighter (talk) 20:08, 8 October 2008 (UTC)

Latest Amande Dobbs update

Hi there,

I dont understand why you consider adding information about past international events vandalism. I was merely addind a comment about her Bronze Medalle at the 2008 AEGON Challenge Cup http://www.tracings.net/2008chalc.html and the Gold Medall at the 2008 JGP in Mexico City in Mexico to the Biographie section. If you consider this vandalism than I will no longer waste my time trying to improve the figure skater pages you have here.

Regards Sanny —Preceding unsigned comment added by Sandra persch (talk • contribs) 20:05, 8 October 2008 (UTC)

BBC Micro cheese wedges

Why are you leaving erroneous and simple information on this page. I edit them and you revert them. I don't understand !?! —Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.9.199.89 (talk) 20:12, 8 October 2008 (UTC)

Agree - review this warning/revert, JD - the IP might be trying to help here. Tan | 39 20:15, 8 October 2008 (UTC)

Bill Ayers

Hi J, delanoy- I noticed you semi-protected Bill Ayers due to excessive vandalism. I had been working on the article and reverting vandalism, BLP violations and unsourced POV. The problem edits are mainly coming from registered users and the minimal vandalism is removed from this article by editors faster then a bot.

I have also been working on other election related articles that are now semi-protected and I can no longer edit without creating an account. I tried to create one with my known user name IP75, but there is a inactive user 'LP75' and I get a message that says I need an Admin to create this account. Can you help me with this matter and also waive the four day waiting period so that I can continue to contribute. Thanks, IP75 75.25.28.167 (talk) 20:22, 8 October 2008 (UTC)

I would be glad to create the account for you. Can you give me your email address so that I can send a random password to you? As far as waiving the four-day waiting period, I do not think it is technically possible to do that. I looked around everywhere I could think of, and I don't think there is any way to do that. I am reluctant to unprotect the Ayers page, since it seems extremely likely that it will receive a high amount of vandalism. Would you be willing to wait the four days? I'm really sorry that it seems that I am going to have to make you to do this, but I don't know exactly what to do. :/ J.delanoy ^gabs _adds 20:56, 8 October 2008 (UTC)

I just found and filled out a request for account form with my email, but it will not be submitted until I confirm. Would it be faster to have you create the account and how do I send you my email without posting it? I thank you for researching the four day waiting period and hope you can find someway to waive it. IP7575.25.28.167 (talk) 21:40, 8 October 2008 (UTC)

I've logged into the account creation interface, so if you want, just confirm and I will create it. Or, if you prefer, just email me at j.delanoywiki

gmail.com, and I will have it send the random password to whatever email address you send. If you choose the latter, include something in your message mentioning this post, and post here with "I confirm that my email has the text "[whatever]" so that I know who you are. J.delanoy ^gabs _adds 22:04, 8 October 2008 (UTC)

I sent you an email with the subject: IP75 account creation/Request for waiver of four day waiting period. IP75 75.25.28.167 (talk) 23:18, 8 October 2008 (UTC)

Account created. You've got mail. J.delanoy ^gabs _adds 23:23, 8 October 2008 (UTC)

Thanks for your help with creating my account. I appreciate your effort with the 'tech dudes'. IP75 (talk) 00:27, 9 October 2008 (UTC)

Habbo good warning

Hello J.delanoy Im not vandalism in This website. I am trying to Put A very good warning about habbo website Please dont make me more angry with you. Have a good day. From aiden600

Please dont make me very more angry with you from aiden600 —Preceding unsigned comment added by Aiden 6000 (talk • contribs) 21:16, 8 October 2008 (UTC)

Your edit was still vandalism. –Juliancolton ^Tropical ^Cyclone 21:52, 8 October 2008 (UTC)

Stalking

Is there anyway you can stop stalking the Obama Bio page? You're so trigger happy, you even accidentally revert people commenting on the talk page! Just breathe...and relax. 68.143.88.2 (talk) 21:38, 8 October 2008 (UTC)

JD isn't "stalking" the page; he has it on his watchlist and actively patrols for vandalism. This is a valuable task and the fact that he reverted a non-vandalistic edit - and immediately reverted himself - is not grounds for a call for him to cease-and-desist. Also, I'm pretty sure he's not doing it with any sort of passion, anger, or other emotion, so telling him to "relax" is condescending. You need to realize the motivation behind his reversions before you accuse anyone of stalking. Tan | 39 21:53, 8 October 2008 (UTC)

Wow, this is amazing...

Over 2,000 reverts today with that fancy and addicting tool. I'm even just staring at the RC watching for vandalism until you and Thingg come along. I guess today is your day for Huggling vandals isn't it? Plus, I'm also impressed at your 90K + edits on Wikipedia in honour of your vandalism reversions. I would have given you a barnstar, but I have to do homework right now. Keep up that super-fantastic huggling! (P.S. Are you going to take a break soon?) SchfiftyThree 22:32, 8 October 2008 (UTC)

Whoa, I have more than 2000 edits today? Wow. I mean wow. I was at college most of the day, and I had two hours with no classes and a two hour class where I don't have to pay attention to get an "A", and a two-hour lab where my teacher's rules are "Submit good work on time, and you can do whatever you want in lab.", so I haven't really had much that I have had to do. I didn't realize before now, but Thingg and I really have been slammin' dem vandals today. I don't know when I'm going to stop, probably once the vandalism slows down a bit. Have fun with your homework... X-P J.delanoy ^gabs _adds 22:38, 8 October 2008 (UTC)

Well, I just got done with homework almost an hour ago, so be aware that I might be in your HG interface! :-) SchfiftyThree 00:10, 9 October 2008 (UTC)

Phew! Apparently, I made 3,412 edits on 10 October. Kudos, please? J.delanoy ^gabs _adds 02:30, 9 October 2008 (UTC)

Um, don't you mean 8 October, JD? And speaking of your reversions, did you actually see me 'beat' you to those reverts? ;-) SchfiftyThree 02:35, 9 October 2008 (UTC)

No, of course not. My time machine works awesomely! Shut up... (and yes, I did see you beat me some, but I got off since I was bored.) J.delanoy ^gabs _adds 02:45, 9 October 2008 (UTC)

Eagle Mountain, Utah entry

J. Delanoy - Thank you for your response re: my attempts to edit the Eagle Mountain, UT entry to make it more fact-based and eliminate personal attacks. I am the public information officer for Eagle Mountain City and would like to replace the existing entry with one that is based on verifiable information. How can I do this without being cited for vandalism?

208.186.134.103 (talk) 22:52, 8 October 2008 (UTC)

fahernheit

my change to polish from german was correct. he was born in poland and never actually lived in germany. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.177.117.21 (talk) 23:54, 8 October 2008 (UTC)

Umm, no. Even Britannica says he is German. J.delanoy ^gabs _adds 00:01, 9 October 2008 (UTC)

This is a public IP address of a library

This is a public IP capable of damage due to juveniles. Please block accordingly. 24.233.94.237 (talk) 21:01, 9 October 2008 (UTC)

We don't generally block people unless there is persistant vandalism. Thanks for the heads up, though. J.delanoy ^gabs _adds 21:05, 9 October 2008 (UTC)

Barnstar

		The Special Barnstar
		It's an absolute pleasure to award you with this barnstar, you have absolutely no idea how much I appreciate what you're done for me these past few weeks. Please, don't ever retire! O_O ——Possum (talk) 21:37, 9 October 2008 (UTC)

Thanks! I can't ever see me retiring, although the amount that I edit will probably slow down at some point. Right now, most of my courses at college are pretty easy, so I have a lot of free time. I assume, though, that eventually, I will find my courses difficult, and then I won't be on as much. But I very seriously doubt I'll ever stop completely, even if I'm not on very much. I really like working with you, and a lot of other people here. Don't you ever retire either ;-) J.delanoy ^gabs _adds 21:41, 9 October 2008 (UTC)

Laura Henderson

Hey the information I put on the Pittsford Famous people is 100% true, I will gladly prove it to you. Go to www.realitykings.com, search for Tori Paige, look at the face. then go to her facebook, I went to High School with her and she is very proud of her video. Until a few weeks ago she had a few of her "photo shoots" on her facebook until they were removed.

http://www.facebook.com/home.php#/photo.php?pid=30591416&op=1&o=global&view=global&subj=705975877&id=100901608

http://www.facebook.com/home.php#/photo.php?pid=30591410&op=1&o=global&view=global&subj=705975877&id=100901608

http://www.facebook.com/home.php#/photo.php?pid=245616&op=1&o=global&view=global&subj=705975877&id=705975877 —Preceding unsigned comment added by 128.255.194.186 (talk) 22:00, 9 October 2008 (UTC)

True or no, I cannot find any information that suggests she is notable. Adding a citation or two would help. J.delanoy ^gabs _adds 22:42, 9 October 2008 (UTC)

Twinkle Help

How do I uninstall Lupin and add Twinkle in Internet Explorer. I can't figure out how to use Lupin and Twinkle is much more on the mark with what I'm after. Thanks for your time and consideration on my rollback request! 45Factoid44 (talk) 23:14, 9 October 2008 (UTC)

Hi, Twinkle won't work in Internet Explorer. I would recommend that you download Firefox. It's a lot better anyways. Here's a link http://www.mozilla.com/firefox/ If you need any more help, feel free to ask. J.delanoy ^gabs _adds 23:57, 9 October 2008 (UTC)

Header added

++++++() Hey, Don. I think you made a good point about the presentation. You interested in forwarding it? They're calling it object code nowadays but that's not really what is anymore. YYYYYYYYY\\\ Jim YYYYYYYYY\\ Jim —Preceding unsigned comment added by Saidonly hes (talk • contribs) 23:28, 9 October 2008 (UTC)

What the hell are you saying? J.delanoy ^gabs _adds 23:57, 9 October 2008 (UTC)

I replied on my own talk page

TheGoodLocust (talk) 02:35, 10 October 2008 (UTC)

Is there a shortage...

...of orange bars that I didn't get the memo on? ;-) Frank | talk 23:47, 8 October 2008 (UTC)

I dunno, this one worked fine. I just ignored it until I got rid of all the people who had already been warned. J.delanoy ^gabs _adds 23:51, 8 October 2008 (UTC)

Sure, but my point is...how many times? Yes, I saw your earlier one about the clown who wrote "I know you're supposed to warn me 4 times" but in general...isn't it cheap enough to issue a couple more orange bars before swinging the hammer? Frank | talk 23:59, 8 October 2008 (UTC)

Sorry, I didn't see this reply until now. Hmm, I can't remember who it was, but they had made a lot of extremely blatant vandalism, and Huggle was acting up, so it wouldn't warn him. I had his talk page open in Firefox to issue a warning with Twinkle, and I saw him vandalize twice more on Huggle, so I just blocked him. J.delanoy ^gabs _adds 02:48, 9 October 2008 (UTC)

Well, I don't think it's a huge deal, but I personally try to err on the side of caution. "Huggle acting up" doesn't seem the best reason to quit warning vandals. They often do stop once they see we're serious, and for the ones that won't stop regardless, a couple of orange bars are pretty cheap to make an appeal less likely to succeed. Just my two cents. Frank | talk 18:13, 10 October 2008 (UTC)

Offer to Erik

Hi J.d, saw your nice offer to Erik the Red on my talk. YOu might want to leave him a note on his own talk as I'm not sure he's watching me. Have a good weekend! TravellingCari 13:25, 10 October 2008 (UTC)

Hi, J. Thanks for your very fine offer, I'd love to have you nom me. Erik the Red 2 ~~~~ 19:55, 10 October 2008 (UTC)

RE:

I have been trying to use the newest version, but I'm encountering the big problem (see link). Thanks for the reply, however, as I will look out for those problems when the problem is fixed. Montgomery' 39 (talk) 15:09, 10 October 2008 (UTC)

Ketchup

Re: this edit and this warning. It seems to me that your mouse must have hit the wrong edit or something. The IP reverted this vandalism, and you re-instated it. I've taken the liberty of removing the warning you mistakenly gave the IP, and warning User talk:Oliviamaskof instead. -- Zsero (talk) 18:28, 10 October 2008 (UTC)

Yeah, you're right. Thanks. J.delanoy ^gabs _adds 18:29, 10 October 2008 (UTC)

Obama-Ayers controversy

Hi J.delanoy- User:Threeafterthree has violated 3RR on the Obama-Ayers controversy article for the last four consecutive days (10-7 to 10-10). He has inserted BLP violations and his edits have been disruptive. After another user placed a NPOV warning on his talk page today, he removed it and then reverted again. He is not a new user and has previously been warned. Could you please block. Thanks, IP75 (talk) 21:28, 10 October 2008 (UTC)

He reverted me, undid my level 1 NPOV warning without explanation, and then reverted again, saying my revert must have been a mistake. WP:AN3 might be a better place for this, however. Erik the Red 2 ~~~~ 21:35, 10 October 2008 (UTC)

Vandalism by 66.204.14.7

Hi J.delanoy. I see that you promised to block 66.204.14.7 for any further vandalism -- which I just reverted on the Hot L Baltimore page. I didn't go far back on that user's record but none of what I saw were useful edits. Too bad he/she is using a school account but it's getting to be irritating, isn't it? —Blanchette (talk) 21:39, 10 October 2008 (UTC)

Thank you!!

Thank you so much! RainbowOfLight ^Talk 06:13, 11 October 2008 (UTC)

I've seen you around for a long time, J.delanoy, and I respect you. Another user has suggested I apply for adminship. Do you think I should? While I've mostly been doing Huggle these days, I have a history of working on articles, and also just going through the articles for copyedit list and copyediting. RainbowOfLight ^Talk 06:25, 11 October 2008 (UTC)

Hmm. I don't have time now to look at your contribs, as it is 2:30am local time. I'll take a gander tomorrow. Cheers! J.delanoy ^gabs _adds 06:27, 11 October 2008 (UTC)

Newbie editor back and asking for your input

Hi, it's me again... Quad, remember? :P

First off, I wanted to thank you for your advice, as it was really useful. I've been adopted now, so I didn't bother you with more questions as I could have :) (and be glad for that) I've been using Lupin's tool along with Twinkle to revert some vandalism the past few days, and I think I've been doing fine... I actually saw you quite a few times reverting some pages (As I'm sure did millions of others :P). But I wanted to ask you a couple more questions, if you don't mind:

What is your experience with other tools previous to acquiring rollback privileges and the killing machine? Any recommendations or tips for a specific one?
Do you think having the vandalism obliterator removes the need for ANY other tools?
What's so good about rollback? I don't really get why people would apply for it having the tools I mentioned, but that's because I don't really understand what rollback actually does. What are the advantages of having it, and what new things are you able to do with it? This is apart from using Huggle, of course. Because I noticed Twinkle has a rollback feature, but according to my logic and what you said a few days ago, it can't be the same feature. And Lupin also, apparently (although I haven't tried that one yet, I usually find pages to revert with Lupin and revert and warn with Twinkle), but there is an option that says use non-admin rollback. So, yeah, kind of confusing to me.

Any input is appreciated. See you around, and keep up the anti-vandalism, you insane-ultra-fast-reverting-human/Huggle-hybrid, you :P

--QuadrivialMind (talk) 04:16, 10 October 2008 (UTC)

Hello again, Quad!

First, I want to say that I love that "insane-ultra-fast-reverting-human/Huggle-hybrid" name you called me. That is awesome! When I get the chance, I'm putting that in an "awesome quotes" section or somewhere.

But for now, down to business...

What is your experience with other tools previous to acquiring rollback privileges and the killing machine? Any recommendations or tips for a specific one?

I got rollback in January 2008. Although I didn't know it at the time, this was right after non-admin rollback had been implemented. Prior to that, only administrators had access to the rollback feature. Before receiving rollback, I fought vandalism by hand using the undo feature. After receiving rollback, I continued to fight vandalism by hand for around a month. Then I saw Jj137 on Huggle (which was really new then, basically no one knew about it) and he gave it to me. So I never actually used any tools before Huggle. As for other tools, I swear by Twinkle for minor cleanup if I run across it in my random browsing. It's very fast (especially for a script-based tool), easy to use, and incredibly versatile. The only drawback is that it doesn't filter edits for you, so if you're going to fight vandalism solely with Twinkle, you'll have to go to Special:Recentchanges, click on diffs, and hope you get there before a Huggler does. Another good tool (that does filter edits) is Mike's Wiki Tool. One drawback is that it is kind of hard to get MWT to work on Windows Vista. If you are running Vista and would like to give it a try, I could try to walk you through the steps to set it up. (If you decide to go ahead and use just Twinkle, and you have access to IRC, irc://irc.freenode.net/cvn-wp-en contains a useful stream of questionable edits that may make your life easier.)

Do you think having the vandalism obliterator removes the need for ANY other tools?

No I don't. I think each has its place. Huggle is only good at catching vandalism as it happens. After 15 minutes pass, Huggle is almost completely useless to combat vandalism unless the vandal attacks again. To draw a rough analogy, suppose that vandalism is bacteria, viruses, and/or poison, and Wikipedia is a human body. Huggle is equivalent to the body's skin. It stops practically everything, but once something gets through, the skin cannot do anything to stop it. Also, Huggle is a stand-alone application designed solely for fighting vandalism. As such, it is very difficult to do anything else while using it. Script-based tools such as Twinkle ride along in your browser, so suppose I am writing a rather long message like this one and I'm thinking about what to say next. I idly click on my watchlist and see that someone I had never heard of edited User:Jimbo Wales. I click on the diff, and find that they vandalized it. With Twinkle, I can just rollback the vandalism and warn the user with only a few clicks. I don't even have to type anything. Doing that with Huggle or other standalone antivandalism tools would be very awkward.

(a) What's so good about rollback? I don't really get why people would apply for it having the tools I mentioned, (b)but that's because I don't really understand what rollback actually does. What are the advantages of having it, and what new things are you able to do with it? This is apart from using Huggle, of course. (c)Because I noticed Twinkle has a rollback feature, but according to my logic and what you said a few days ago, it can't be the same feature. (d)And Lupin also, apparently (although I haven't tried that one yet, I usually find pages to revert with Lupin and revert and warn with Twinkle), but there is an option that says use non-admin rollback. So, yeah, kind of confusing to me.

(I labeled the different parts of your question to make it easier to read my answer)

(a) What's so good about rollback? I don't really get why people would apply for it having the tools I mentioned,

Rollback is implemented at the system level, right in MediaWiki, the software that runs Wikipedia. As a result, it is much, much faster and less demanding on the servers than any script-based tool could ever hope to be. As proof of what it is capable of doing, take a look at this link. There is no way you could ever do that with a script.

(b) but that's because I don't really understand what rollback actually does. What are the advantages of having it, and what new things are you able to do with it? This is apart from using Huggle, of course.

Rollback is essentially a hyperlink that calls on a special feature of MediaWiki that automatically figures out which revision is the last revision made by someone other than the current editor. Rollback then supplies the server with a unique hashed token to verify that the person who clicked the link is allowed to do so, and if everything is in order, the server undoes all consecutive edits by the page's last editor. (If you're interested, a rollback hyperlink looks something like this: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Main_Page&action=rollback&from=Remember+the+dot&token=f42e845f614ddf72344d166a4ba29d7c%2B%5C)

(c) Because I noticed Twinkle has a rollback feature, but according to my logic and what you said a few days ago, it can't be the same feature.

Twinkle's rollback feature mimics the MediaWiki one, but since it is a script is not as fast or efficient as the "real" one. The rest of my answer here would basically repeat the answer to part "b" of the answer to this question.

(d) And Lupin also, apparently (although I haven't tried that one yet, I usually find pages to revert with Lupin and revert and warn with Twinkle), but there is an option that says use non-admin rollback. So, yeah, kind of confusing to me.

Non-admin rollback is what you would be getting if you applied at WP:RFPERM. There are two user rights groups that have access to the MediaWiki rollback feature: Administrators and Rollbackers. I explained some of the background behind this in the answer to question a.

I hope that helps you out. If not, feel free to ask for clarification. I've got to go to sleep now, so I guess I'll ttyl. Cheers! J.delanoy ^gabs _adds 05:27, 10 October 2008 (UTC)

That cleared up a lot, so thanks! If you don't mind, I'm going to copy and archive these answers on my talk page, for future reference. Cheers. --QuadrivialMind (talk) 21:08, 11 October 2008 (UTC)

Chess

Are you going to make a move already? :-) Tan | 39 18:22, 10 October 2008 (UTC)

Done J.delanoy ^gabs _adds 18:27, 10 October 2008 (UTC)

Well, I guess you gotta be quick to make a move! Tan | 39 18:40, 10 October 2008 (UTC)

Hey man, since it's "vs. the world" and not "vs. Tanthalas39", do you want me to let other people make moves in between? Tan | 39 04:04, 12 October 2008 (UTC)

I don't really mind if you make a move. If you want, go ahead. J.delanoy ^gabs _adds 04:06, 12 October 2008 (UTC)

Actually, I just saw your "rules" in the edit section where you wanted us to not make consecutive moves - I've already violated the spirit of the game. I'll let other people go in between. Tan | 39 04:08, 12 October 2008 (UTC)

You bad person! *mouse hovers over Special:BlockIP/Tanthalas39 :D * J.delanoy ^gabs _adds 04:13, 12 October 2008 (UTC)

I'm confused...

I thought IP's were not allowed to delete their own warnings/notices. I usually revert them to help others know what warnings to give to repeat vandals. What is the policy on this? That would really help me out if you let me know.... Beano (talk) 06:34, 11 October 2008 (UTC)

Dear J.delanoy, 169.233.115.203 blanked his talk page after he was blocked. Is that acceptable? Have a nice day! AdjustShift (talk) 08:05, 11 October 2008 (UTC)

For some inexplicable reason, per Wikipedia:Talk_page_guidelines#User_talk_pages, users are allowed to remove warnings, even block notices. The only thing you are not allowed to remove is an unblock request. I agree that it makes no sense, but yeah. J.delanoy ^gabs _adds 15:42, 11 October 2008 (UTC)

The discussion

Hello, J.delanoy. Personally, I don't want to take part in this political lynching. Notice that they have not talked about my edits on articles they just have gotten their feelings hurt by political beliefs. The admin who is leading this charge is a questionable character and I don't want to give credence to his "discussion". --Tocino 17:19, 11 October 2008 (UTC)

Well, I cannot force you to comment, but you are only hurting yourself if you do not. The identity of the person who started the conversation is irrelevant. I did not even look at that conversation or any of Husond's reasons before I started looking around. Your assertion that "They have not talked about my edits they just have gotten their feelings hurt by political beliefs" is also irrelevant. I came to my conclusions based solely on my own research. Other users' opinions on you did not influence me in the slightest. Your own edits are what caused me to say what I did. I once again ask you to say something in response to my request on the talk page. J.delanoy ^gabs _adds 17:35, 11 October 2008 (UTC)

How long would the ban last and is there an appeals system? I would rather not deal with User:Husond. --Tocino 17:38, 11 October 2008 (UTC)

Damn, I was apparently not paying attention too well. I've removed my comments (at least temporarily) from the article's talk page until I have more time to look deeper. Right now I have to go to work in 10 minutes, so I'll see what I can do later. [4] J.delanoy ^gabs _adds 17:54, 11 October 2008 (UTC)

OK, please give me time to make a defense. My dad is staying with me for the next few days so I probably won't have time to write a case until Monday. Thanks for your understanding. --Tocino 18:00, 11 October 2008 (UTC)

Hey!

Do you do conflict resolution? Burner0718 ^{Jibba Jabba!} 17:57, 11 October 2008 (UTC)

I can try if you want, but I'm not that good at it. What's up? J.delanoy ^gabs _adds 00:55, 12 October 2008 (UTC)

this and this. But now it looks like it may be calming down thanks to Gwen Gale. Thanks. Burner0718 ^Wutsapnin? 01:53, 12 October 2008 (UTC)

BTW, I sent you an email. It's about a chat invite. Burner0718 ^Wutsapnin? 01:59, 12 October 2008 (UTC)

Accepted. I think you're right about Gwen taking care of the ANI thing, so I won't bother saying anything there. J.delanoy ^gabs _adds 02:04, 12 October 2008 (UTC)

Hey

Hey, I always see you around beating me to reverts. Keep up the good work! dvdrw 02:35, 12 October 2008 (UTC) But also the occasional block- and now on edit-conflicted semi-protects. And I goofed. Good eye, I didn't mean to change the move protection. dvdrw 03:07, 12 October 2008 (UTC)

It's not a big deal. I do stuff like that all the time. For example, just a couple days ago, I accidentally full-protected someone's editor review for 31 hours. Luckily no one tried to review him... >_> J.delanoy ^gabs _adds 03:13, 12 October 2008 (UTC)

Paul Elgin

Can you please block the user here for repeated csd tag removals from Paul Elgin article. Thanks Waterden (talk) 00:47, 13 October 2008 (UTC)

Well, since I deleted the page, I think I'll wait and see what he does now. J.delanoy ^gabs _adds 00:48, 13 October 2008 (UTC)

Was third creation and I had to put tag back on at least seven occasions. Warnings did not stop him. Bed time for me 2.00 am here. Have fun ! Waterden (talk) 00:51, 13 October 2008 (UTC)

Confused...

I recieved a message from you explaining that me removing the article on the social pressure of bras was vandalisim.... But I do not understand, is this not a site to edit articles? How am I vandalising anything?

Alot of young women who search these terms (although yes by their own choosing) will/do get confused with seeing these things and it only fuels their own upset about the way they are. The articles shouldn't provoke any kind of upset, confusion or frustration, an encylcopedia is supposed to bring a reader sole knowledge. You have to think about what kind of impact this free for all editing is giving on young women. Nobody can just point out and say, "yes, the average person changes their clothing 3 times a day" or be able to sum up average of this, averages of that... There's alot of that on articles I've read. But yet we're all different. I don't know if anyone else has spoken up on the topic but I urge you to remove that section, seeing I cannot....

- Technolita —Preceding unsigned comment added by Technolita (talk • contribs) 01:22, 13 October 2008 (UTC)

Hi Technolita. The reason I said it was vandalism is because you removed sourced content from the article. I really appreciate your concern about how young women may take that section, but I am not sure exactly what you think the inclusion of that information will do. If you think it will cause a problem, what you should do is open a discussion on the article's talk page and voice your concerns. J.delanoy ^gabs _adds 01:29, 13 October 2008 (UTC)

Thank You

Thank you for granting me rollback access. The fact that you trust me with this is even more important than the tool itself. Ulric1313 (talk) 05:55, October 13, 2008

You should have had it long ago. I saw you revert vandalism on 3 or 4 pages on my watchlist, looked at your contribs, and was like "Whoa". Have fun, and keep up the good work! J.delanoy ^gabs _adds 05:58, 13 October 2008 (UTC)

Images added

With reference to Abyssinian Roller, please remember to remove any image request templates if you add an image to an article. I probably forget to do this myself sometimes, but reminders are good for helping with that. Richard001 (talk) 08:23, 13 October 2008 (UTC)

WP:ARBMAC

Hello J.delanoy. I'm contacting you as I see that you were recently involved with the application of sanctions under this Arbcom probation. Could you please have a look at this? I've proposed User:Tocino to be banned as per the probation. I believe that there's a consensus for such action. Could you please have a look into it and eventually ban the user if you, too, agree that there's plenty of grounds for a ban? Thank you. Best regards, Húsönd 23:30, 10 October 2008 (UTC)

I just wanted to let you know that I saw this post. I'll work on it tomorrow, right now, I really need to unwind. I was at school from 8:00am - 2:00pm and at work from 3:00-10:00 doing the crappiest job they offer. J.delanoy ^gabs _adds 05:29, 11 October 2008 (UTC)

*PING* :-) Húsönd 17:56, 13 October 2008 (UTC)

Deletion of the "Paul Elgin" Page

Hello,

I am trying to add an article for business entrepreneur Paul Elgin. Why is this page keep being deleted? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Htentceo (talk • contribs) 00:49, 13 October 2008 (UTC)

Hi Htentceo. Your article about Mr. Elgin was deleted because it did not say why he is notable, or special. This will sound more blunt than I intend it to, but what has Mr. Elgin done that other people would want to know about? Has he had any substantial coverage in established, neutral, third-party sources?

Also, the article was written much like a resumé or an advertisement. One of the core policies on Wikipedia is that all articles must maintain a neutral point of view. Articles including phrases like,

"In the spring of 2006, Paul founded Catch 22 Clothing, an urban-sophisticated lifestyle brand catering to the mature, conservative & sophisticated individual. Through aggressive radio, online, and print promotions, Catch 22 Clothing quickly gained the attention of consumers nationwide.

are not neutral; they are more suited to a press release or a quarterly financial report than an encyclopedia article.

If you still don't understand something, feel free to ask. You may also wish to look at our page about writing your first article for more information about our policies and guidelines for articles to be included. J.delanoy ^gabs _adds 01:00, 13 October 2008 (UTC)

Ok, thank you for the explaination. So should I omit the areas in which you are referring to?

As for Paul Elgin's contributions, His clothing line Catch 22 Clothing is one of the pioneers in coining the phrase "Stunna Shades" during the Bay Area Hyphy Movement, as Catch 22 was the first company to trademark the phrase and place it on eyewear product nationwide for sale. Catch 22 Clothing has also been showcased in national magazines and on major network television.

Paul Elgin has also done graphic design for well known actresses Zoe Saldana and Jennifer Lora. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.34.111.250 (talk) 01:15, 13 October 2008 (UTC)

I'm still not sure that constitutes notability, but I am probably not the best person to ask about that. If you do create the page again, definitely try to rewrite it without the advertising part, and be sure to include citations to reliable sources. If you want, I can copy the deleted page to your userpage so you can work on it there before moving it back to the mainspace. J.delanoy ^gabs _adds 01:18, 13 October 2008 (UTC)

Ok, I will repost without suggestive advertising. I will have it rewritten a bit as well. However now my page is deleted. I was not trying to be insubordinate in any way by removing those speedy deletion tags earlier; It is my first time contributing to Wikipedia and I was unsure of the process. I was also unaware of where to read the warning messages! Could you please re-instate my user page and post the deleted version so I can make the necessary edits? Thank you. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.34.111.250 (talk) 01:29, 13 October 2008 (UTC)

Will do. The page is (or will be) at User:Htentceo. Just so you know, I think you got logged out somehow. You may want to log back in before making edits to your userpage, or it may confuse anyone who sees you doing it. J.delanoy ^gabs _adds 01:36, 13 October 2008 (UTC)

Hello J. Delanoy...can you review my user profile, and the updated article on Paul Elgin and let me know if this is acceptable? Thank you. Htentceo (talk) 17:54, 13 October 2008 (UTC)

149.254.200.244

Hey J, when looking at a definite vandal, you might want to take a look at their edit history. You fixed two of 149.254.200.244's acts of vandalism, but you left two unchanged.---Balloonman ^PoppaBalloon 17:00, 13 October 2008 (UTC)

Job

Sorry to hear you lost your job. I offer my sympathy and condolences and wish you luck in finding a replacement. Useight (talk) 05:46, 14 October 2008 (UTC)

Thanks. J.delanoy ^gabs _adds 06:05, 14 October 2008 (UTC)

Tothewind

Good sir, you have besmirched and deleted an ongoing project I have about the nature of a "real police state." As this is a personal opinion, I'd appreciate your compliance in letting me build a case. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Tothewind (talk • contribs) 05:52, 14 October 2008 (UTC)

Read WP:OR. J.delanoy ^gabs _adds 06:04, 14 October 2008 (UTC)

Protection of Katarzyna Dolinska (Indefinite)

Hey, The article of Katarzyna Dolinska is a redirect to America's Next Top Model, Cycle 10 page since the article had recreated three times before changed it to redirect per deletion discussion page. The protection was expired at 14:39 GMT on 10/14/2008. [5].

Can you please full protect the redirect article indefinitely, not semi. Thanks. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 121.96.106.74 (talk) 13:41, 14 October 2008 (UTC)

Premature blockulation

See: User talk:Bnawltr001. He may have a point on this. What think you? --Jayron32.talk.contribs 17:04, 14 October 2008 (UTC)

Thanks for taking care of that. Mooch ass grassy ass, Dan K. Shane, and mercy buckups... --Jayron32.talk.contribs 17:12, 14 October 2008 (UTC)

Thank you for yelling at me. *eep* I hope I didn't mess up their project too much... J.delanoy ^gabs _adds 17:18, 14 October 2008 (UTC)

Thanks!

Hey there. Just a note saying, thanks for your great nomination! My RFA passed, and I look forward to continuing to help the wiki with my contributions, admin-ish and not! Hopefully I won't get it too wrong. :P Cheers again, Ale_Jrb^talk 20:20, 14 October 2008 (UTC)

Possum

It wasn't vandalism, I have a right to speak my thoughts on other people, I didn't erase things on that person's page, so it wasn't vandalism. And also, I didn't get a FIRST warning —Preceding unsigned comment added by L0W3R1D3R (talk • contribs) 23:02, October 14, 2008

No, you cannot say whatever you want to. Read WP:NPA. That page is not optional. Your edit here was pure vandalism, and the message you left on Possum's talk page was a completely inappropriate reaction to his warning. J.delanoy ^gabs _adds 23:07, 14 October 2008 (UTC)

I don't know where you are, but I'm in America. And in America we can say whatever we want. —Preceding unsigned comment added by L0W3R1D3R (talk • contribs) 23:17, 14 October 2008 (UTC)

I live in America as well. And you are right you can say whatever you want if you are not in a place owned by private citizens or corporations. Wikipedia is owned by the Wikimedia Foundation, not the government, and they have allowed users of this site to collectively make the rules. See WP:FREE. You cannot say whatever you want here. J.delanoy ^gabs _adds 23:24, 14 October 2008 (UTC)

Question

I'm simply curious why you submit yourself to seach out vandalisers. Do you not have a life? Are you trying to keep you mind off your unemployment? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Tallguy49 (talk • contribs) 23:20, 14 October 2008 (UTC)

I think it would be more appropriate for me to ask you, "I'm simply curious why you submit yourself to vandalize Wikipedia. Do you not have a life? Is there anything constructive you could do instead of attempting to deface and destroy other people's work?" We may both be wasting our time, but at least I'm doing something constructive. J.delanoy ^gabs _adds 23:29, 14 October 2008 (UTC)

A Question for you

I have perused the wikipedia community looking for the right person to ask my question. You seem like the right chap. You may not have a good answer for me, but i will try anyway. Let me give you a bit of background about myself, so that you can give me a more complete answer, if possible. For starters, I have been noticing how quickly you have been reverting the evil menace known as VANDALISM. Great job. I see your user name all over the place, so I know that you work tirelessly at it. As for me, I have only really been doing this editing thing for about two months now. Like you, I love reverting vandalism and do it every chance I get. Recently, I was granted Rollback rights which has made my mission so much easier. I have noticed that many editors who revert vandalism use either Huggle (which I understand is broken, but everyone still uses it), or Twinkle. I use internet explorer, so I don't think I can use Twinkle. I considered Huggle, but I can't do anything, because the page says its broken. I just want to be able to add a message or a warning to a vandals talk page automatically. I see others doing it, or at least I presume that they are doing it. So far, I have been cutting and pasting, which can be draining at times, and doesn't add all of the information, such as the page vandalized. Is there something easy I can do, or is it hopeless?--Jojhutton (talk) 00:09, 15 October 2008 (UTC)

Well, Huggle is somewhat unstable, but unless you are an admin, there is nothing really majorly wrong with it. If you do have rollback, I would recommend that you try it out. Otherwise, I would recommend downloading Firefox and installing Twinkle. Other than Huggle and Twinkle, I have never used any vandal-fighting tools that are easy to install. J.delanoy ^gabs _adds 00:30, 15 October 2008 (UTC)

Well then, how do I get Huggle? I have been using Rollback and its great, but it doesn't seem to add the all important warning on the vandals talk page.--Jojhutton (talk) 00:36, 15 October 2008 (UTC)

Here's the link. J.delanoy ^gabs _adds 00:37, 15 October 2008 (UTC)

Hey

Just a heads up, I happened to see this: [6], and you may want to semi-protect your userpage. You must be pretty popular with vandals! Anyway, keep up the vandalism-reversions, Spencer^T♦^C 00:43, 15 October 2008 (UTC)

You know, I also noticed that. It must be the price of reverting so musc vandalism.--Jojhutton (talk) 01:01, 15 October 2008 (UTC)

If you get really popular on certain pages, IPs give you appropriate gifts on your userpage. Erik the Red 2 ~~~~ 01:24, 15 October 2008 (UTC)

Sorry about your job

Hey. I know we don't really know each other, but I just read you lost your job, and you really seem like a nice guy, so I'm wishing you the best of luck. Hope things get better for you soon mate. Take it easy. --QuadrivialMind (talk) 05:48, 15 October 2008 (UTC)

Good shooting Tex!

Hey, thanks for your efforts in fighting vandalism here on Wikipedia. Cheers! 206.211.166.17 (talk) 16:05, 15 October 2008 (UTC)

Mollie Gondi

An anonymous user created Mollie Gondi article. Which in fact, she's not notable in a losing reality show. Which it should redirected to old deleted Mollie Sue Stennis-Gondi article. The article doesn't meet to fail the notability requirements. Which it was a deleted article per deletion discussion. Can you delete it? Thanks. 125.212.121.121 (talk) 16:28, 15 October 2008 (UTC)

vandalism

how is it vandalism? someone was adding spam.--Billthevampire (talk) 17:25, 15 October 2008 (UTC)

You're right, sorry. J.delanoy ^gabs _adds 17:27, 15 October 2008 (UTC)

Vandalism...

209.7.63.70 I think that the Vandalism of the Holocaust page is too much they need to be blocked for 12 hours or something like that. Now in the past 2 days they have had 6-7 vandalism edits, I think its time to slow them down a little bit don't you think?! Hairy Perry 17:47, 15 October 2008 (UTC)

Hmmm, doesn't seem too bad to me. Is there someone specific who is vandalizing? J.delanoy ^gabs _adds 17:51, 15 October 2008 (UTC)

No there isn't anyone specific, but don't you think that 6 vandalism edits in the past two days are quite enough to justify a 12 hour block atleast? Hairy Perry 17:55, 15 October 2008 (UTC)

So, I'm guessing thats a no, right?! Hairy Perry 18:37, 15 October 2008 (UTC) Oh BTW, I don't even know you, but sorry to hear that your life is going bad right now, but just remember somebody else got it worse than you and things have to get worse before they get better, ok take it easy fellow wikian, happy editing! Hairy Perry 18:51, 15 October 2008 (UTC)

Cheers

AngelOfSadness talk has given you a cookie! Cookies promote WikiLove and hopefully this one has made your day better. Spread the WikiLove by giving someone else a cookie, whether it be someone you have had disagreements with in the past or a good friend. Happy munching!

Spread the goodness of cookies by adding {{subst:Cookie}} to their talk page with a friendly message.

For the user talkpage reverts. It was very much appreciated. AngelOfSadness talk 17:55, 15 October 2008 (UTC)

No prob. J.delanoy ^gabs _adds 17:59, 15 October 2008 (UTC)

Vandal

Was that a vandal J, because your name isn't even on that subjects history. Hairy Perry 19:00, 15 October 2008 (UTC) Well he got me to, but thanks to AngelOfSadness its not there anymore...Hairy Perry 19:02, 15 October 2008 (UTC)

Header shortened

2008 Chinese milk scandal/Official test failures/Test results recognized by Vietnam Department of Health
Nothing wrong with the list, it taken from vi:Vụ bê bối sữa Trung Quốc 2008 118.68.184.1 (talk) 19:46, 15 October 2008 (UTC)

Block of User talk:Icdedppl6166

Thanks for indef'ing this guy, not because i'm involved with him, but because I spent 2 minutes agonising over whether or not to indef, only to notice you'd done it anyway. Need to be a bit bolder. Good job--Jac16888 (talk) 21:00, 15 October 2008 (UTC)

Heh. I saw the edit summary for this on my watchlist and I was like "Crap....". No problem. I've made nearly 50000 vandalism reversions, so I tend to be able to make my decisions regarding stuff like this pretty fast. J.delanoy ^gabs _adds 21:03, 15 October 2008 (UTC)

haha. Its easy doing it from the reversion side, but i haven't blocked anyone yet, mainly because people keep getting there before me.--Jac16888 (talk) 21:06, 15 October 2008 (UTC)

Got one, User talk:209.232.150.253, well two actually, User talk:Parisbotch7. Hope you don't mind me asking, but do they both seem good blocks to you?--Jac16888 (talk) 21:17, 15 October 2008 (UTC)

I didn't realize you became an admin today. So first, let me say congratulations on your promotion!

As far as the blocks go, both were good. I probably would have blocked the IP longer, but what you did was fine. It's natural to be a little hesitant when you first go about using the admin tools, but you're doing fine. The key thing to remember is, if you think you're doing it correctly, 99% of the time you are. Have fun! J.delanoy ^gabs _adds 21:48, 15 October 2008 (UTC)

Thanks. I did wonder about blocking the Ip longer, but i think it was a schoolip, and i remember reading something on AN or AN/I the other day about 31 hours being perfect for school block, because it means it won't be unblocked if they come back the same time tomorrow and hopefully they won't try again--Jac16888 (talk) 22:08, 15 October 2008 (UTC)

Yeah, that's pretty good advice. Of course, some schools have a lot of people vandalizing, so if they return, definitely escalate the blocking period. J.delanoy ^gabs _adds 22:10, 15 October 2008 (UTC)

Will do, thanks for the help. And the validation--Jac16888 (talk) 22:16, 15 October 2008 (UTC)

Thank You!

		The RickK Anti-Vandalism Barnstar
		For your assistance in keeping USS New Jersey (BB-62) vandal free while the article was up on the mainpage I herby award you The RickK Anti-Vandalism Barnstar. Keep up the good work! TomStar81 (Talk) 00:19, 16 October 2008 (UTC)

Thanks! J.delanoy ^gabs _adds 00:46, 16 October 2008 (UTC)

Thanks!

Thanks for reverting vandalism on my talk page! StaticGull Talk 14:31, 15 October 2008 (UTC)

And the best of luck in RL, too. StaticGull Talk 14:39, 15 October 2008 (UTC)

And again

Thanks for fighting vandalism on my user page! StaticGull Talk 12:15, 17 October 2008 (UTC)

Deepest Apologies

Delanoy, I've known you for quite a while now, and I am extremely sad that you lost your job. Remember, you have a shoulder to lean on if you ever need it. Sam ^Blab 00:54, 16 October 2008 (UTC)

Thanks. I appreciate you and others' comments more than you know. When I put that note up there, I did it so that people would know why I was ignoring their requests. I didn't expect people to tell me that they feel for me or to offer moral support. Thanks a LOT!!! J.delanoy ^gabs _adds 00:56, 16 October 2008 (UTC)

Oh wow, I didn't even notice that note you put ...whoa. I can't believe that you of all people wouldn't be able to keep up—not since we were all having trouble making those reverts before you did ...but, I understand that what happens in real life is more important to deal with and hope that you get successful. Cheers and best wishes. ~ Troy (talk) 01:29, 16 October 2008 (UTC)

Bummer, sorry to hear about the job situation. The economy is hitting everyone over the head these days. I bet you will find another job out there somewhere, trust me they are out there. If you need help looking, please let me know. Take Care Dude :) - NeutralHomer • Talk • October 16, 2008 @ 02:10

Res 2216 firestar haz given u Cheezburgr! Cheezburgrs promote WikiLovez and hopefully thiz one haz made yore day bettr. Spreadd the WikiLovez by givin someone else Cheezburger, whethr it be someone youz have had disagreementz with in teh past or a gud friend. Happy munchins!

Spredd teh goudnesz of Cheezburgerz by addin {{subst:Cheezburgr}} to their talk puj with friendly messuj.

Sorry about your job, have a burger. P.S. Thanks for the barnstar.--Res 2216 firestar 18:32, 16 October 2008 (UTC)

I'm sorry about your job. Don't worry, things will get better! Hang in there! Malinaccier (talk) 22:57, 16 October 2008 (UTC)

Thanks guys. (The cheezburgr was good, btw :) J.delanoy ^gabs _adds 22:58, 16 October 2008 (UTC)

I still don't get it...

I asked how you guys delete vandalism so quickly and your response didn't really tell me anything. I'm assuming I was just supposed to look under the "speedy deletion"? I wasn't asking why, but how. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 140.228.159.206 (talk) 04:31, 16 October 2008 (UTC)

Is magic. :D Garden. 18:33, 16 October 2008 (UTC)

Hang on in There!

Never, never, never give up! -RoBoTam^ice 19:26, 16 October 2008 (UTC)

I feel for you

Sorry about RL. It's tough. I've had a couple of bad breaks myself, and I've always came out of them feeling stronger, and knowing that I can overcome the challenges life throws in my way. I guess the RfA is off, then. That's fine. DO you know anyone else who might nom me? Good luck, and I hope you can sort things out soon. Sincerely, Erik the Red 2 ~~~~ 01:10, 15 October 2008 (UTC)

I'll probably still be able to write a nom for you; I already pretty much know you. It's just that a couple of people had asked me other stuff that is far more difficult, and I don't think I would be able to make a good call with those. J.delanoy ^gabs _adds 02:43, 15 October 2008 (UTC)

Thanks. I really appreciate it, especially with what you're going through. The post-mortem is winding down, you can see it here. Depending on consensus there, we might want to just run it normally. Erik the Red 2 ~~~~ 01:00, 16 October 2008 (UTC)

OK, whatever you think. Just let me know when you're ready. J.delanoy ^gabs _adds 01:04, 16 October 2008 (UTC)

I think we might want to start it up now, It might be best to run it normally, but to have a crat clerk the page to remove irrelevant questions/!votes. Tell me what you think. Erik the Red 2 ~~~~ 22:45, 16 October 2008 (UTC)

Normally? You mean the "traditional" way? J.delanoy ^gabs _adds 22:47, 16 October 2008 (UTC)

Yeah. Erik the Red 2 ~~~~ 22:50, 16 October 2008 (UTC)

OK. I'll work on the nom, and you can work on the standard questions... J.delanoy ^gabs _adds 22:54, 16 October 2008 (UTC)

Nice. :P J.delanoy ^gabs _adds 22:59, 16 October 2008 (UTC)

Bracketed text for the win. :) Erik the Red 2 ~~~~ 23:09, 16 October 2008 (UTC)

Please check your email, Erik. J.delanoy ^gabs _adds 23:22, 16 October 2008 (UTC)

Well, the internet is being a bitch, so it won't let me send email, but it will let me receive it. Got to love technology, eh? Here is my reply, copied from the email that never was: You know what? Let's just try it, and there's always SNOW or early withdrawal. I know when to pull out before they start nailing me to the cross. If you're worried about me retiring or leaving, don't. I've already survived one. Don't worry about this one. I won't blame you for anything. I've answered the questions, BTW. Erik the Red 2 ~~~~ 01:13, 17 October 2008 (UTC)

Dude, seriously, I do not want to do this to you. Take it from me, I have utterly no question what will happen. J.delanoy ^gabs _adds 15:06, 17 October 2008 (UTC)

If you think that it would be a bad idea, I won't be stubborn. I respect your judgement. But I think you might have clicked on the wrong wannabe kate link. You said I had more than a thousand user talk contribs, but I just checked and I only have ~ 500. Does that make a difference? Erik the Red 2 ~~~~ 19:55, 17 October 2008 (UTC)

(Hmm, don't know were I got 1000) No, I'm afraid not. You will be shot down as inexperienced. I'm sorry, but I don't think I can bring myself to nominate someone if I have no question that they will not pass. Again, I'm really sorry :( J.delanoy ^gabs _adds 20:45, 17 October 2008 (UTC)

Did you ever get around to this?

Hey J.delanoy, I know you're busy, but were you able to take a look at this? RainbowOfLight ^Talk 04:43, 17 October 2008 (UTC)

I'll take a look as soon as I can. J.delanoy ^gabs _adds 15:06, 17 October 2008 (UTC)

Header added

This badge is not mod property and not a free badge this badge has a Copyright. we own the copyright to this badge the information on how this was all made possible will be released very soon. We have a letter from the Queen saying thank you to us on the day the Queen in our presence gave the second badge made by ourselves to a SBS soldier. THE first badge that was issued will all come clear from the book and website under construction.......... —Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.161.97.94 (talk) 19:00, 11 October 2008 (UTC) —Preceding unsigned comment added by 92.17.235.156 (talk)

We know; that is why the image page has a fair-use rationale. Please see fair use and our policy regarding the usage of copyrighted materials. J.delanoy ^gabs _adds 15:25, 17 October 2008 (UTC)

Bot proposal - comments needed

I'm messaging you since you participated in a Village Pump discussion a while back on the subject. I've since put in a proposal for a bot to revert the addition of redlinks to a subset of list articles and/or list sections. The selection of such articles and the policy of operation of the bot is under discussion there. Your input would be welcome. Pseudomonas_(talk) 16:49, 17 October 2008 (UTC)

Hey!

Hey Quad
I saw you on Huggle yesterday (read: I cursed all the powers of hell as you beat me multiple times...), and you did excellently. Apparently, better than I thought you had from just watching you - based on the stream of thank you's left on your userpage ;-) If you ever get tired of them vandalizing it, just ask any admin to protect it for you - users are allowed to request protection for any page in their userspace (except their talk page, usually) for any length of time for any reason.
Again, you're already (from what I saw) doing better than 99% of people who start using Huggle; I wanted to let you know that because you are doing a good job, and too often people only get noticed when they do something wrong. Have fun, and leave a little for me to revert sometimes, ok? :P J.delanoy ^gabs _adds 00:09, 18 October 2008 (UTC)

I was just logging out of Huggle when I saw your message. Thanks for the kind words :)

And if I beat you multiple times, it's only because the day before that (or was it the one before that one? –anyway, the previous day in which I patrolled using HG), you beat me. Actually, you beat me so many times, that I was thinking of adding this to your talk page:

“

Thou shalt not need to patrol and look for the willful destroyers while the Huggle-Human hybrid dwells on the Wikiland, for he reverts at the speed of light.

”

About my page being vandalized... I'd rather have them waste their time deleting my stuff instead of the useful pages on Wikipedia, so I don't think I want to protect the page unless it gets really intense.

Also, I don't even need to worry about reverting changes, since somebody always comes really fast and fixes it. By the way, how do people actually do that? On Huggle, or at least mine, user pages are not shown. Well, at least one person reverted my page using HG. Somebody else reverted it using TW and someone else used the undo feature, I believe (I guess my page would pop up here)... But I still wonder about the person who used Huggle to do it. Any light you can shed on this?

See you around! –QuadrivialMind ^(talk) 00:44, 18 October 2008 (UTC)

Sure. By default Huggle is configured to only look at the mainspace and the template space. You can change it to allow all namespaces by going opening Huggle and going to System → Options. Or if you want, I can just change your huggle.css for you. J.delanoy ^gabs _adds 00:49, 18 October 2008 (UTC)

It's fine, thanks. I'm going to tinker with the program options tomorrow, and if I still can't do it, I'll let you know and you can change my css for me. Anyway, I'm leaving for dinner now, I'll be back probably tomorrow. Cheers –QuadrivialMind ^(talk) 00:58, 18 October 2008 (UTC)

Thank you!

Actually, it's after midnight where I am. Been tinkering around with a model plane and I didn't realize the time. Thank you so much for the warm welcome. I don't want to get driven away again, believe me. If I ever feel the need to duck out of here again (which I pray won't happen), you'll be the first to know, I promise. Thanks again for the kind words. They're appreciated more than I can express. --PMDrive1061 (talk) 07:23, 18 October 2008 (UTC)

Igpay atinlay

Adglay ooyay adhay unfay. :) Durova^Charge! 07:50, 18 October 2008 (UTC)

Anksthay orfay ethay aughlay. Ootay oftenyay, Ikipediaway isyay ootay erioussay. Uffstay ikelay atthaay isyay oodgay orfay allyay ofyay usyay. Eerschay! J.delanoy ^gabs _adds 07:56, 18 October 2008 (UTC)

French commune infoboxes

Hi. We have a large back log of French commune articles to add the infoboxes from French wikipedia Status check. All that needs doing is copying the infobox directly from the French wikipedia equivalent. Please see Vulaines. All that needs doing for each article is cutting and pasting the infobox from French wiki into every article which must be bot compatible. So for Vulaines all it requires is pasting the infobox into it from here and pasting it into the english wiki article. COuld somebody please programme a bot or use some form of coding to help complete the task in hours rather than months? Blofeld of SPECTRE (talk) 11:48, 18 October 2008 (UTC)

Block

Thanks for [7]. --Flewis^(talk) 02:28, 19 October 2008 (UTC)

Psst... HalfShadow 02:30, 19 October 2008 (UTC)

Banhammer swung liberally :-) If you don't mind, Flewis, I'll leave your /boxes page open as a honeypot to see if I can slam in a rangeblock. J.delanoy ^gabs _adds 02:35, 19 October 2008 (UTC)

Another one: 86.168.193.213 (talk · contribs) --Flewis^(talk) 02:36, 19 October 2008 (UTC)

Sorry, just protected Flewis/boxes before i saw this. Can unprotect if you like? By the way, just so i know, is it ok to block these ips the moment they start?--Jac16888 (talk) 02:37, 19 October 2008 (UTC)

Un-protect away! --Flewis^(talk) 02:40, 19 October 2008 (UTC)

Permission granted to swing banhammer indiscriminately :-) But don't bother unprotecting. He's operating on several /13 and /10 IP ranges; the most admins can block is a /16. Devs can do a /8, but it would have to be really bad before they agree to do that. So basically, until his ISP reads my email to their abuse hotline, there's not much else we can do but just RBI. J.delanoy ^gabs _adds 02:42, 19 October 2008 (UTC)

Ah dammit, i read "unprotect away", did so, then came here to say so and read that.--Jac16888 (talk) 02:45, 19 October 2008 (UTC)

If you want MOAR LOG COUNT!!!1!1!! or if you're bored, just leave it unprotected. All I was saying is, we won't be able to dial in a rangeblock, so the honeypot exercise is rather pointless. J.delanoy ^gabs _adds 02:47, 19 October 2008 (UTC)

I guess the hidden message on my userpage didn't work as well as I'd hoped [8] --Flewis^(talk) 02:54, 19 October 2008 (UTC)

Heh, well, what can I say? You tried, that's all you can do. I assume that most people who intend to vandalize don't read those notes, they just make the good guys feel better. Not trying to one-up you here, but I have a similar hidden message, and vandalism to my page got so bad that someone else just indefinitely protected it. J.delanoy ^gabs _adds 03:11, 19 October 2008 (UTC)

About my vandalism

Yes I admit it is vandalism to the Unionville High School page however there is nothing factul about the Mr. Stooge fish facts —Preceding unsigned comment added by 96.227.222.206 (talk) 03:40, 19 October 2008 (UTC)

Fair enough, you saw someone else's edits and decided to add your own. I removed the other guy's junk, thanks for bringing my attention to it. J.delanoy ^gabs _adds 03:44, 19 October 2008 (UTC)

Huggling

Great job you're doing, btw. I know you told me once upon a time not to thank you each time you revert the vands on my page...but I'd thought I'd tell you to keep up the good work!

No, no barnstar this time - I'm sure that gets old? You've got about fifty of them. :D —La Pianista ^(T•C•S) 03:56, 19 October 2008 (UTC)

LMAO! No problem at all. Heh heh heh, "I'm sure that gets old? You've got about fifty of them. :D " I'll be chuckling about that for a while... J.delanoy ^gabs _adds 03:58, 19 October 2008 (UTC)

thank you

WikiThanks

thanks for reverting the vandalism to my userpage. Shirulashem (talk) 02:44, 19 October 2008 (UTC)

No problem :-) Apparently, you somehow got caught in the crossfire (see section above). I watchlisted your page, and if it gets worse, I'll semiprotect it. Cheers! J.delanoy ^gabs _adds 02:46, 19 October 2008 (UTC)

Thanks from me too! DoubleBlue (Talk) 01:55, 20 October 2008 (UTC)

Hey, I have a request

The IP that's been harassing me recently created an account to evade their block which was imposed by Chris G for 3 months, could you be a saint and change this block to prevent acct. creation? I'd appreciate it muchly :) Thanks, — Possum (talk) 16:51, 19 October 2008 (UTC)

Do you know what Chris blocked? I can't find which one it is. J.delanoy ^gabs _adds 18:03, 19 October 2008 (UTC)

Gah sorry, I didn't realise it had already been taken care of, really sorry for the pointless ping, regards — Possum (talk) —Preceding undated comment was added at 21:22, 19 October 2008 (UTC).

I'm BACK!

platypusdara is back. i am correcting myself by not "Vandalizing" pages. sorry bout before... but, i'm back! :D

--CrazyChickenLady (talk) 17:46, 19 October 2008 (UTC)CrazyChickenLady Sometime, Somewhere.

Umm, cool. J.delanoy ^gabs _adds 18:02, 19 October 2008 (UTC)

 dont you remember me? sheesh. :D

--CrazyChickenLady (talk) 18:07, 19 October 2008 (UTC)CrazyChickenLady

Hmm? –Juliancolton ^Tropical ^Cyclone 18:09, 19 October 2008 (UTC)

No, actually I didn't. I blocked platypusdara ten days ago. Since then, I have blocked nearly 250 people. I don't think you really understand how much vandalism I fight. J.delanoy ^gabs _adds 18:12, 19 October 2008 (UTC)

oh. wow. umm... okay...?--CrazyChickenLady (talk) 22:34, 19 October 2008 (UTC)CrazyChickenLady

hey, you know i'm not gonna "vandalize" another page. I'm not that stupid.--CrazyChickenLady (talk) 22:35, 19 October 2008 (UTC)CrazyChickenLady

That's great! :D Did you need something specific, or did you just want to ensure that I knew that you weren't going to vandalize again? J.delanoy ^gabs _adds 23:36, 19 October 2008 (UTC)

Road to Germany

Protection time? Grsz ^Review! 02:01, 20 October 2008 (UTC)

Meh... So far, there's been a lot of vandalism, but also some constructive edits. I don't know. If you want, I (or you) could file a report on WP:RFPP to get a second opinion. J.delanoy ^gabs _adds 02:04, 20 October 2008 (UTC)

Regarding the McCain edits, I'm okay on 3RR right? Grsz ^Review! 02:07, 20 October 2008 (UTC)

IDK. I'm probably not the best person to ask. I think that as long as there are no reliable sources to back it up, you should be fine. But if you've got a question, just leave it. If it really is incorrect, someone else will most likely remove it, or you can just come back after the chaos has died down and remove it then. J.delanoy ^gabs _adds 02:10, 20 October 2008 (UTC)

Thanks!

Thanks for blocking that annoying IP that kept vandalizing my talk page yesterday. Just when I was about to report him at WP:AIV, I got an urgent call and had to run an errand.

For that, I award you:

		The Userpage Shield
		For blocking the vandal harassing my talk page right when I had to leave, I award you this barnstar. Jock Boy 04:01, 20 October 2008 (UTC)

Thanks, and no problem! I know how that goes (having to run without notice), mainly when I'm editing in class and my teacher asks me a question :D J.delanoy ^gabs _adds 04:03, 20 October 2008 (UTC)

Help with Twinkle

Hey, how's it going?

I wanted to ask you about something related to Twinkle. You still use it for some stuff, right? (blocking, maybe?) I'd like to configure it to work in a certain way (it's just a minor change) but don't know how, and can't find anything on the manual about it. Maybe you know about this or can at least tell me if it can be done.

My problem is regarding User Contributions pages. Every time I see one, Twinkle automatically adds the tags [rollback] and [vandalism] at the end of all (top) edit entries. I find it kind of annoying, since I don't ever click on those tags, they tend to clutter things up even more, and the colors are distracting too. I'd like to look at the Contributions pages as if I didn't have Twinkle, but I don't want to modify my monobook each time I see a Contributions page —or else I'd go nuts! I still use Twinkle on some occasions, so I like to have it on all the time.

Here's a picture of what I'm talking about in case you didn't follow.

Any ideas? Thanks in advance. –QuadrivialMind ^(talk) 08:56, 19 October 2008 (UTC)

Hmm, it's probably possible, but I'll have to slog through quite a bit of javascript. Right now, I really have to get my homework done. I'll look at it as soon as I can. J.delanoy ^gabs _adds 18:06, 19 October 2008 (UTC)

No worries mate. I don't really need you to do that—in fact, it makes me feel kind of guilty to make you slog through quite a bit of javascript when you have to do so much other, more important stuff :P If it's too much trouble, you could just point me in the right direction (maybe one of the desks is the right place to ask?) and I'd be thankful anyway.

In any case, whatever you decide to do, I'm in no hurry, so... take your time, and good luck with your homework ;) See you around –QuadrivialMind ^(talk) 18:53, 19 October 2008 (UTC)

I've seen that happen, too; I just click the main [rollback] button most of the time (not the Twinkle rollback functions). SchfiftyThree ^(talk!) 18:57, 19 October 2008 (UTC)

What do you mean, you've seen it happen? O_o I thought everyone who had Twinkle had those tags showing up on the contribution pages—just by default. Was I wrong to make that assumption?

Also, when I want to use rollback without Huggle, I too click the main [rollback] button... in fact that's kind of the reason I find the other two annoying :P –QuadrivialMind ^(talk) 20:20, 19 October 2008 (UTC)

What I meant when I said, "I've seen that happen" is that when I'm searching through a user's contributions, I have seen the two Twinkle rollback functions like you have explained above. SchfiftyThree ^(talk!) 20:55, 19 October 2008 (UTC)

Oh, right, sorry, I get it now. But you have no idea how to remove those either, huh? :P –QuadrivialMind ^(talk) 22:29, 19 October 2008 (UTC)

I asked this question on WT:TW a few weeks ago, and Mandarax was kind enough to do this for me. Just replace importScript('User:AzaToth/twinkle.js'); with importScript('User:Xaradnam/twinkle.js'); in your monobook.js as I have and you should get what you were looking for. --Closedmouth (talk) 14:12, 20 October 2008 (UTC)

That worked! Thank you very much for your help :) –QuadrivialMind ^(talk) 17:41, 20 October 2008 (UTC)

Fanks...!

Thanks for catching and quickly nuking the ugliness left on my talk page by 99.236.237.210 (talk · contribs). Thanks also for blocking him/her. —Scheinwerfermann (talk) 04:23, 20 October 2008 (UTC)

You're welcome! J.delanoy ^gabs _adds 18:04, 20 October 2008 (UTC)

Header added

Sorry my this guy took the computer im on and tryed to get me in trouble i love wiki it helps me with all my school projects —Preceding unsigned comment added by 207.166.0.75 (talk) 17:57, 20 October 2008 (UTC)

That's fine. As long as you don't vandalize, you should be all right. If you have a shared IP address, however, you may still receive warnings and possibly even a block for stuff you didn't do. The best way to avoid this is to simply create an account. If you need help with something, feel free to ask. Cheers! J.delanoy ^gabs _adds 18:04, 20 October 2008 (UTC)

Chess board

The transcluded board isn't updating on this page; I tried hard refreshing, no dice. Is this happening to anyone else, or just my machine? Tan | 39 18:23, 20 October 2008 (UTC)

Never mind, there it went. Move along, these aren't the droids you're looking for. Tan | 39 18:23, 20 October 2008 (UTC)

Heh. Next time try ?action=purge before you go insane :-) By the way, why did you waste your move on something that requires utterly no thought whatsoever? J.delanoy ^gabs _adds 18:26, 20 October 2008 (UTC)

Because otherwise it might be days before I catch it at the right time. Might as well move things along! Tan | 39 18:31, 20 October 2008 (UTC)

Fine, just for you - editing section. Now you're going to wait until I'm offline to ensure I'm not around for the next move I'm eligible for ;-) Tan | 39 18:40, 20 October 2008 (UTC)

Actually, I'm trying to figure out if it is possible to get away from my nefarious plot... Seriously. J.delanoy ^gabs _adds 18:42, 20 October 2008 (UTC)

Well, you're up about 3 points, so I'd say your chances are good. I just hope the next few players don't do anything catastrophic for the dark side... Tan | 39 18:45, 20 October 2008 (UTC)

Someone did, but Malinaccier changed it (i.e. after World let go of his piece). I thought about challenging him, but I decided that it's really not fair for one person to completely destroy the game. (other than me ;-) J.delanoy ^gabs _adds 18:47, 20 October 2008 (UTC)

See, now's a time where the wrong king move could be a debacle. Holding my breath... Tan | 39 18:55, 20 October 2008 (UTC)

j.delanoy enjoys a cruel laugh J.delanoy ^gabs _adds 18:57, 20 October 2008 (UTC)

Actually, if you want, I can copy/paste that page somewhere else and we can just finish the game ourselves. J.delanoy ^gabs _adds 18:58, 20 October 2008 (UTC)

Sure, that'd be fun. I assume that disqualifies me from this "world" game then ;-) Tan | 39 19:02, 20 October 2008 (UTC)

No, I don't see why it would. Just don't make two moves in a row, like before. Our game is at User:J.delanoy/chess/Tan39. Watchlist it, because I'm also doing homework now, and I may not immediately make a move. J.delanoy ^gabs _adds 19:07, 20 October 2008 (UTC)

Protection

NOTE: Any semi-protection on this page will be immediately lifted by myself'; do not bother.

Visible at the top of the page. I have reverted your prot as promised. -Jéské Couriano ^{(v^_^v)} 00:46, 21 October 2008 (UTC)

Uw-IPblock3

I noticed you recently created a redirect from {{Uw-IPblock3}} to a template in your userspace. Please join the discussion at WT:UTM#Uw-IPblock3. Thanks! Anomie ⚔ 01:08, 21 October 2008 (UTC)

Dude, seriously.

You have to semi your user talk. I can't get any work done warning these vandals. :) Erik the Red 2 ~~~~ 01:33, 21 October 2008 (UTC)

Don't bother. They're /b/tards, and I'm watching their thread. I'm hammering in a three-month anonblock on each, so just revert. J.delanoy ^gabs _adds 01:35, 21 October 2008 (UTC)

I've esclated to six months per. -Jéské Couriano ^{(v^_^v)} 01:35, 21 October 2008 (UTC)

It is something I've noticed. Why do vandals pick on your page more than others? I mean, we all revert vandalism, but why is it always your page they choose to blank?--Jojhutton (talk) 01:40, 21 October 2008 (UTC)

It's not just Delanoy. There's about four or five others that get harassed on a regular basis. -Jéské Couriano ^{(v^_^v)} 01:41, 21 October 2008 (UTC)

Well they were going after JeffG's page, then J.delanoy protected it with something in the protection about b/tards, so they may have just redirected their attack to the protecting admin.--Terrillja (talk) 01:43, 21 October 2008 (UTC)

They were also attacking me as well (I reverted Delanoy's prot on my user talk page; I refuse to allow it to be protected specifically because the /b/tards will just harass somebody else). -Jéské Couriano ^{(v^_^v)} 01:46, 21 October 2008 (UTC)

Yeah, and I posted in their vandalism thread threatening to block anyone who posts a pic of vandalism, cause they were gloating about it. They stopped doing that for the most part, but then they went for me. J.delanoy ^gabs _adds 01:45, 21 October 2008 (UTC)

Maybe I only notice it more on J.delanoy's page because I have his on my watch list, but I see it when I search recent changes too. Why are the vandals doing it?--Jojhutton (talk) 01:47, 21 October 2008 (UTC)

Read my post directly above this one. Their thread just 404'd. But I suspect someone will start a new one. J.delanoy ^gabs _adds 01:48, 21 October 2008

(over) Is it the same person blanking the page, possibly using differant IPs?--Jojhutton (talk) 01:58, 21 October 2008 (UTC)

No, the IPs are too diverse. -Jéské Couriano ^{(v^_^v)} 02:01, 21 October 2008 (UTC)

Aw, now it's protected. No more whack-a-mole (or ip) :( --Terrillja (talk) 02:03, 21 October 2008 (UTC)

Delanoy unprotected. -Jéské Couriano ^{(v^_^v)} 02:05, 21 October 2008 (UTC)

Yeah. Let's get as many as we can. J.delanoy ^gabs _adds 02:06, 21 October 2008 (UTC)

Didn't see this thread, whoops! Sorry to ruin your fun. :-) –Juliancolton ^Tropical ^Cyclone 02:07, 21 October 2008 (UTC)

If it helps, Julian, it's pointless to protect a userpage under siege by 4chan - they'll just go after unprotected addies. -Jéské Couriano ^{(v^_^v)} 02:10, 21 October 2008 (UTC)

Don't worry. Earlier, I ruined Jeske's, so... J.delanoy ^gabs _adds 02:09, 21 October 2008 (UTC)

All right guys, I've got an assignment due in like 1 hour 45 minutes, so I'd better finish it up. Feel free to protect this page if you get bored. J.delanoy ^gabs _adds 02:15, 21 October 2008 (UTC)

I've gone thru attacks that lasted two hours. I'm prepped. (pitches tent) -Jéské Couriano ^{(v^_^v)} 02:17, 21 October 2008 (UTC)

I would stay and help, but like I said, I have an assignment due soon, and I can imagine what my teacher would say if I told here I was warding off a /b/ attack.... J.delanoy ^gabs _adds 02:21, 21 October 2008 (UTC)

Tell her your pet iguana used your homework as a toilet. -Jéské Couriano ^{(v^_^v)} 02:22, 21 October 2008 (UTC)

hahaha! That would be awesomeJ.delanoy ^gabs _adds 02:23, 21 October 2008 (UTC)

I've tried that one with every conceivable animal. My Latin professor didn't believe I had a pet Blue-footed boobie. Erik the Red 2 ~~~~ 02:26, 21 October 2008 (UTC)

The guy is using open proxies, may be using TOR or just by changing LAN settings. In either case, that's why the IPs are so different. Someone like User:Zzuuzz might want to check it out. ~ Troy (talk) 02:28, 21 October 2008 (UTC)

Dude, it is /b/. It's not a proxy, just hundreds of different people all over the world. J.delanoy ^gabs _adds 02:29, 21 October 2008 (UTC)

(RI) I thought proxies were involved about six months ago. Since then, I've come to the realization that's not the case. -Jéské Couriano ^{(v^_^v)} 02:30, 21 October 2008 (UTC)

Anyone could easily go on open proxies that aren't blocked here on wiki. There's ways to get around it. ~ Troy (talk) 02:32, 21 October 2008 (UTC)

Zzuuzz just told me they aren't OPs, Troy. -Jéské Couriano ^{(v^_^v)} 02:34, 21 October 2008 (UTC)

So, should we keep hammering in the 3 or 6 month blocks? J.delanoy ^gabs _adds 02:37, 21 October 2008 (UTC)

Three if it's the first/second block for the IP, 6 from second/third on, IMO. Erik the Red 2 ~~~~ 02:39, 21 October 2008 (UTC)

No, Zzuzz wanted me to stop the six-monthers. I told him that unless he gives me ranges to work with (I can't figure out ranges for the life of me), I will keep blocking IPs individually for six months (the highest I dare go) as Jarlaxle socks. -Jéské Couriano ^{(v^_^v)} 02:40, 21 October 2008 (UTC)

Those IPs are dynamic, constantly change, and that last one had a long discussion page. Are you at all sure about the blocks? ~ Troy (talk) 02:41, 21 October 2008 (UTC)

No question. Someone is going through /b/ posting a link to a revision that contains nothing but that # REDIRECT text. Since no one has ever done that to my page before, we can be sure where they came from. J.delanoy ^gabs _adds 02:43, 21 October 2008 (UTC)

Which is why I asked for ranges. Otherwise, Whac-a-Tard. -Jéské Couriano ^{(v^_^v)} 02:44, 21 October 2008 (UTC)

Ah, to be five again... Erik the Red 2 ~~~~ 02:52, 21 October 2008 (UTC)

Barnstar

		The RickK Anti-Vandalism Barnstar
		Wow... you are just reverting and reverting and reverting vandalism. I thank you in the name of Wikipedia. leujohn ^{(talk, contribs)} 13:19, 21 October 2008 (UTC)

Thank you! J.delanoy ^gabs _adds 13:34, 21 October 2008 (UTC)

Whoops!

Thanks. Angus McLellan (Talk) 13:40, 21 October 2008 (UTC)

No problem :P I went to his talk page to block him, and saw your message, so I didn't. Then I saw him vandalizing my talk page and I was like, huh? J.delanoy ^gabs _adds 13:45, 21 October 2008 (UTC)

Yet another...

You know what? I actually get off huggle and go off to do something else when I see you have arrived :D You beat us all, and you don't even leave anything behind for us slowpokes to enjoy.

		CVU Anti-Vandalism Award
		Well, a message is not really needed. But for the sake of those who don't know J.delanoy's speed and thoroughness in reverting vandalism; this was awarded to him just for that. Chamal ^talk 13:39, 21 October 2008 (UTC)

Chamal ^talk 13:39, 21 October 2008 (UTC)

Ha, well... about that.... :D Thanks for the compliment, and don't worry, I'm in class now, so I can't use Huggle. (my teacher will get suspicious if I keep hitting the same key again and again.) J.delanoy ^gabs _adds 13:44, 21 October 2008 (UTC)

You edit Wikipedia while in class? I've heard the word 'Wikipediholic' somewhere... Chamal ^talk 14:05, 21 October 2008 (UTC)

LOL, yeah. I'm in my first semester with a CS major, so pretty much all my courses are introductory. Since I already know how to program some, I can goof off in class and still get A's. J.delanoy ^gabs _adds 14:08, 21 October 2008 (UTC)

Cynthiana KY

The things keep being removed. the two pieces i added are accurate and true. matthew hyatt is the author of i am icarus. you can see it at www.cafepress.com/iamicarus and he is an acclaimed local artist.

the sexual involvement for teenagers is also the highest in the state percentage wise. that can be found through the local government.

thanks! —Preceding unsigned comment added by 12.169.38.194 (talk) 18:25, 21 October 2008 (UTC)

Thanks

Thanks for reverting vandalism on my talk page! Nsaa (talk) 18:51, 21 October 2008 (UTC)

Woops. Now I messed up... *sigh* I'm not good at wikipedia, so I tried to add you a comment of apologizing to you, but that backfired... I hope I'm doing this right, and I'm sorry if this isn't.

72.1.206.174 (talk) 19:01, 21 October 2008 (UTC) Destron Prime

Made myself an account!

Don't worry though, I can understand the school thing. I'm in it myself right now!

(Off topic, but I noticed you were a gamer. Picking up Fable II?) —Preceding unsigned comment added by DestronPrime (talk • contribs) 19:06, 21 October 2008 (UTC)

Probably not. For one thing, I have a PS3. For another, I've used it once since the end of August. I'm taking more than 18 credit-hours and I'm working part-time, so I don't have a lot of free time. I can do Wikipedia in class and in between homework. It's not as easy to do the same with a video game. J.delanoy ^gabs _adds 19:11, 21 October 2008 (UTC)

Header added

excuse me, yes i did vandalise before, but i tried to make a good contribution to the red headed slut (cocktail), to make up for what i've done. you may not know much about this drink, but i am related to rebbecca snider and i know the story of this. i am very dissapointed that you have marked this actual contribution as vandalism. if it is not changed back i will never use this site again, and speak to my friends in time magazine to write an article about jerks like you ruining this wonderful sight.

Ruby Hamilton. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 80.195.231.237 (talk) 19:37, 21 October 2008 (UTC)

After reading the diffs, I endorse J.delanoy's revert, your addition may not have been vandalism, but it could be reworded batter, and the bit about how she was his mistress is irrelevant to the story. Something like the drink was developed by (name) and (name) with a source would be more encyclopedic. It's nothing against you personally, it's just that every editor needs to follow the same manual of style so that the project is uniform. See WP:MOS for the manual of style. --Terrillja (talk) 19:46, 21 October 2008 (UTC)

Header added

Big thank-you from me too for reverting vandalism on my talkpage =) --guyzero | talk 19:44, 21 October 2008 (UTC)

Yo, Waz up???

I'd just thought id drop by ciscokid21 and see whats up (I really don't understand how you did the chess board but its really awsome) so, id just thought id drop by (trust me, i'll never vadlize again) (the only reason i did it was because i was bored out of my mind) CUL8TR Ciscokid21 (talk • contribs) 20:38, 21 October 2008 (UTC)

Thanks. The chessboard is just some really complicated wikitext. The board itself was already made by someone else, I just did the borders and move list and stuff. I was able to do it mainly by looking around to see how other people did similar things.

BTW, if you want to "vandalize" and not get in trouble, you can go to the sandbox and do practically anything you want. Cheers! J.delanoy ^gabs _adds 21:40, 21 October 2008 (UTC)

Semi-protection of User talk:Jeff G.

Hi. Thank you for all of your anti-vandalism efforts. While I appreciate your well-meaning attempt at protecting me, I did not ask for my user talk page to be semi-protected, only my user page. I think it is counter-productive for me not to be able to get feedback from anon warnees in the usual place for it. Also, I don't want to be thought of as someone who can dish it out, but can't take it. In addition, I don't want the burden of having a separate unprotected talk page like you have. Thus, I respectfully request that you unprotect my user talk page. Thanks again! — Jeff G. (talk|contribs) 22:06, 21 October 2008 (UTC)

Done I meant to tell you that I had done that, but I got caught up following a vandalism thread on /b/ and I forgot to. So I guess I owe you an apology for that. I really hate performing logged actions on other people's userspace without telling them that I did it. I just saw someone calling for people to vandalize your page, and I know you are a good Huggler. I didn't want you to be distracted by all those "new messages" notices, so I protected your page. Sorry. J.delanoy ^gabs _adds 22:37, 21 October 2008 (UTC)

Who called for people to vandalize my user talk page? Also, per WP:CSD#U1, please remove the reference to the Informative article you had deleted from User:J.delanoy/userpage. Thanks! — Jeff G. (talk|contribs) 00:47, 22 October 2008 (UTC)

Someone on /b/. I have no idea who it was (they all post as "anonymous"), but I do know why he was calling for your page to be vandalized. It was because you were pwning all his minions. They were posting screen grabs of their vandalism, and when I looked at the page history to find who to block, you had reverted them around 90% of the time...

Also, link fixed. I forgot to update it when I asked for the original page to be deleted. Thanks for letting me know I had a dead link there - I wonder how many people have tried clicking on it... <_< J.delanoy ^gabs _adds 02:00, 22 October 2008 (UTC)

Thanks for the info, the fix to the dead link, and the laughs I got from your humor section. :) — Jeff G. (talk|contribs) 10:42, 22 October 2008 (UTC)

Header added

Hey dude im sorry I dindt want to hurt your feelings I am sorry please, please dont delete me, please.l thanx —Preceding unsigned comment added by Mersennelein (talk • contribs) 14:45, 22 October 2008 (UTC)

Oh thank you so much that is so nice! thank you for letting me learn and becoome a more better wikipeidan :-) wanne be friends? you know i dont have many so,... —Preceding unsigned comment added by Mersennelein (talk • contribs) 14:51, 22 October 2008 (UTC)

Algeria

Hi, can you please protect this? Nothing but one IP editor pushing his own POV edits on it. Cheers, -- How do you turn this on (talk) 16:34, 22 October 2008 (UTC)

I gave him {{uw-3rr}}. J.delanoy ^gabs _adds 16:37, 22 October 2008 (UTC)

...And I blocked them for three hours. Better to deal with the IP directly than to protect the entire page. Tan | 39 16:38, 22 October 2008 (UTC)

Voitsberg Edit

Hi, i know i'm new to Wikiediting, but if i'm deleting as a born Austrian a germanspeaking part of an article like Voitsberg, that is neot refered to the City Voitsberg, than i think, that i'm not wrong. So please just leave the english text in it and don't undo my changes pls. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 213.150.1.77 (talk) 16:55, 22 October 2008 (UTC)

Cheers

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For the user talkpage revert. It was very much appreciated. :) AngelOfSadness talk 17:20, 22 October 2008 (UTC)

You're welcome, and thank you, because if you're getting vandalized, it means you're doing something right, so keep it up! J.delanoy ^gabs _adds 17:21, 22 October 2008 (UTC)

I guess that's one way to look at it. But it also means less vandalism on the mainspace in the process :) AngelOfSadness talk 17:37, 22 October 2008 (UTC)

heh, I never thought of that... J.delanoy ^gabs _adds 17:42, 22 October 2008 (UTC)

thanks!

Thanks for reverting some vandalism on my talk page. It makes me happy to know that while there are some vandals out there, most people actualy care about this encyclopedia.

--Found5dollar (talk) 18:50, 22 October 2008 (UTC)

You're welcome, and thanks for the compliment! J.delanoy ^gabs _adds 18:53, 22 October 2008 (UTC)

Ok, I admit it...

I did ciscokid21 try to vandalize the mughal empire page and now I regret it and will never EVER do it agian.

(how did you do the Chess Board??? its really awsome)

-10/22/08 -12:07 (Pacific)

(feel free to talk, talk) —Preceding undated comment was added at 19:09, 22 October 2008 (UTC).

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THANKS! J.DELANOY ^GABS _ADDS 23:32, 22 OCTOBER 2008 (UTC)

Need help

Hi J.delanoy,

I need some help, please check this user Ariana-hime (talk), he is making some vandalism and unconstructive edits on some articles.

Thank you.

Harmonic gear (talk) 01:45, 23 October 2008 (UTC)

I looked at his contribs and I didn't see anything really bad. All I saw was him trying stuff out. Are there any particular edits that you were looking at? J.delanoy ^gabs _adds 02:01, 23 October 2008 (UTC)

Thanks J.delanoy, he blanking the Magibon article twice, and removing or adding info without giving reason or reliable source. Harmonic gear (talk) 02:28, 23 October 2008 (UTC)

Hrm. Those were definitely vandalism, but most of his more recent ones seem more like he's testing something. Did you try to engage him on his talk page? J.delanoy ^gabs _adds 02:33, 23 October 2008 (UTC)

Dekisugi already give him some notice. I wish to talk to him, but I'm afraid making the situation bad, so I write to you for some advice. Harmonic gear (talk) 02:58, 23 October 2008 (UTC)

thanks

		The Resilient Barstar
		Thanks for all your intellectual, intelligent, and masculine contributions, keep up the great work. Nissanaltima (talk) 03:31, 23 October 2008 (UTC)

Video games

do u have cod4 and i have warhawk also its a good game im an airman and i play with my neighbor, hes pretty good —Preceding unsigned comment added by DCsniper207 (talk • contribs) 22:04, 23 October 2008 (UTC)

I don't have COD4, and I haven't played Warhawk in quite a while. I have time for Wikipedia since I can edit in between classes and in between doing homework. Video games require larger blocks of time, which I don't typically have. Sorry. J.delanoy ^gabs _adds 22:19, 23 October 2008 (UTC)

Thanks

For blocking the anon who vandalized my userpage. I'm surprised that it took this long for it to get vandalized considering how many users I have warned and reverted their contributions. Anyways, thanks! --Terrillja (talk) 22:53, 23 October 2008 (UTC)

You're welcome. The way I look at it, if you're getting vandalized, it means you're doing something right. Cheers! J.delanoy ^gabs _adds 22:54, 23 October 2008 (UTC)

Yeah, it was a pretty dumb one though, I was reverting the anon adding info about Mac OS 10.5 on the 10.6 article. I've certainly reverted more controversial and touchy things. Now back to WP:NPP! --Terrillja (talk) 23:01, 23 October 2008 (UTC)

what do I do now

About this stale report, what do I do now? :( It's obvious that he will make POV edits again. I give him now another level 4 warning just admins can see it the next time that he gets reverted? --Enric Naval (talk) 21:44, 23 October 2008 (UTC)

I would just re-report him if he vandalizes again. J.delanoy ^gabs _adds 22:16, 23 October 2008 (UTC)

~~OK, I'll do that~~ Meh, at the end I left him another level 4 warning, so it can't be said that he wasn't warned appropiatedly --Enric Naval (talk) 22:48, 24 October 2008 (UTC)

Too fast

Whoa, nice reaction time on the vandalism of the Briar Woods High School page. I'm sort of jealous, though. --Flyingbox (talk) 22:14, 24 October 2008 (UTC)

Thanks. I'm using a software tool called Huggle, so I can't take all the credit for that... J.delanoy ^gabs _adds 22:15, 24 October 2008 (UTC)

I see. I'll hold off on Huggle for a bit, I still need to learn the ropes of the place a little more. --Flyingbox (talk) 22:21, 24 October 2008 (UTC)

Thank you

Appreciate both you and Rlevse assistance on my user pages, that sneaky little rascal is really starting to get on my nerve. For laughs, I shall quote my wife saying this: "What's with this constant harassment by someone so fixated (wth!?) on you? I think you got a new secret admirer!". But it's the weekend again, so we shall all have our last laugh, eh? Cheers~! ...Dave1185 (talk) 23:09, 24 October 2008 (UTC)

LOL! No problem. Actually, Rlevse will do most of the work, but I am happy to help in any way I am able. One of the things that annoys me most is when vandals make attacks on people like he is on you, so I try to combat them as much as I can. J.delanoy ^gabs _adds 23:17, 24 October 2008 (UTC)

Well, it's all part of "Karma"... I exposed all his socks (due in no small part by his own admission to them) and in return, s/he takes time off every weekend to try something fresh. Such is life sometimes, makes for a good laugh too, eh? Cheers~! ...Dave1185 (talk) 23:48, 24 October 2008 (UTC)

New info on my user page, found the master. — Rlevse • Talk • 00:18, 25 October 2008 (UTC)

User:Crispy1989/Dataset/Vandalism

Don't know whether or not you've seen this, but you might like it. jj137 (talk) 02:18, 25 October 2008 (UTC)

Yeah, I added a few a while back. I probably ought to add some more... J.delanoy ^gabs _adds 02:20, 25 October 2008 (UTC)

A few? ;) jj137 (talk) 02:27, 25 October 2008 (UTC)

Heh, forgot about that one :*) J.delanoy ^gabs _adds 02:28, 25 October 2008 (UTC)

A question

Hello! I've seen you a lot around Wiki lately. I've been looking for someone to answer a question I've got. I hope you can answer it, or direct me to someone who knows. While going through the RfA's I noticed many people opposed RfAs because they felt that areas like anti-vandalism, new pages, etc. had too many admins. So what I'd like to know is, which areas have a dearth of admins? Because I'd like to concentrate my efforts where they're needed most. Thanks. Anti venin 17:07, 25 October 2008 (UTC)

Hmmm. Well, for one thing, I don't think there are too many admins on vandal-patrol and NPP. If anything, there are too few, especially in the really early morning UTC. In general, I don't know of any areas that need admins more than any others. WP:SSP quite often has a backlog, but as I rarely involve myself in sockpuppet cases that are not obvious, I don't know for sure. I'm probably not the best person to ask that type of question, since I almost exclusively work in vandal-patrol and newpage patrol. J.delanoy ^gabs _adds 17:26, 25 October 2008 (UTC)

Thanks for replying! Well, I can't really be of much help at WP:SSP since finding sockpuppets is pretty random, and only admins can review/ban them. I'm not online during the early hours (UTC) and since the other admins say there are enough RC patrol admins, I don't know what to do now. Okay. Another question. According to you, what is the minimum time a person must be active in Wikipedia to RfA? (Assuming they have enough edits/experience) I've seen RfAs being opposed because of that, but there doesn't seem to be any concrete figure (months, years, whatever). Thanks again. Anti venin 19:10, 25 October 2008 (UTC)

At least 6 months of active contributing. Eight would probably be better. If you're really good, you may get by with four or five, but that is extremely unlikely IMHO.

I am more than 99% sure why you are asking me this. Take it from me: being an admin is not really that great of an accomplishment. If you try very hard to be an admin, especially if you consciously start involving yourself in areas that you normally wouldn't, you will be disappointed.

People at RFA tend to frown on users who actively attempt to become administrators. In fact, one of the main reasons I passed my RFA was because I declined to involve myself in areas of the site that did not interest me simply to make myself more attractive to people at RFA. From the standpoint of empirical contributions to the project, as opposed to the project's contributors, as a vandal-fighter, being an admin only really means that I can just do stuff myself rather than reporting to AIV, RFPP, or by tagging pages for CSD. Which, while nice, is not particularly interesting, nor is it that enjoyable.

The only really nice part about being an admin, for me at least, is that I can usually help people if they ask me. For basically my entire time here on Wikipedia, I have fought vandalism. A freaking lot of vandalism, if I do say so myself. Because of this, my username shows up frequently in literally every corner of this site. As a result of this, people often come to me to ask for advice or help, and before I became an admin, I had to send people elsewhere many many times simply because I was technically unable to help them. Vandal patrol is, by and large, a solitary job, and it is not rewarding from the standpoint that all (read: 100%) of your contributions are buried in the page history. Writing articles actively improves the site, fighting vandalism only maintains the status quo. (This is somewhat of a chicken-and-egg situation, but the point is that vandal-patrol cannot, by itself, improve this site.) The single most rewarding thing I find on this site, and indeed the primary reason I continue to contribute here, is the knowledge that I am able to help people solve their problems. Thus, the rewarding part of being an admin, to me, merely means that I am able to help more people than I could before. That's it. If that is what you are looking for in adminship, you will be satisfied. If you are looking at it for pretty much any other reason, you will get bored with the tools before you have had them for a fortnight. J.delanoy ^gabs _adds 20:25, 25 October 2008 (UTC)

Lol. I liked this: "I am more than 99% sure why you are asking me this."

Yes, I'm looking at being an admin (eventually), I just didn't know what the minimum time-frame for applying was. And I wasn't trying to hide that. If it seemed I was, I apologize.

I like to measure my progress by (I'm searching for the right word here) clearly defined figures (numbers, data, whatever). Like edit count, article count, number of people helped, etc. So if I stayed on Wikipedia not doing anything (read:not "progressing") that would be very disappointing for me. Thus being an admin isn't a goal, per se, just another way to progress. I don't know if you understand what I'm trying to say... But I hope you get the idea. Anti venin 07:54, 26 October 2008 (UTC)okay, i've been thinking about it and i suppose another reason why i'd like to be an admin is because i'd like to be less dependent on admins while reverting vandalism..

RFP/R response

Heh, I was thinking about making a note about Clubmarx's rollback request, and it looks like you sort of used the exact way I would have used to make the note! :-)SchfiftyThree ^(talk!) 23:43, 25 October 2008 (UTC)

Heh. They say great minds think alike - not that I'm implying anything there... [innocent look] ;-) J.delanoy ^gabs _adds 23:45, 25 October 2008 (UTC)

Protection of Yemen Floods

If you look at the history, you'll note that only one vandal has repeatedly vandalized; 216.211.125.193. There was only one other IP vandal who had 1 edit, and then another helpful IP who reverted vandalism.

So; do you think 2 weeks is really necessary? It was only one guy. And, given that this is a current event, we'll most likely have lots of updates; would you mind if I unprotected? Thanks, Master of Puppets _{Call me MoP! :)} 00:16, 26 October 2008 (UTC)

heh, oops :*) I unprotected it. Thanks for bugging me, and sorry for the bother of having to come here and yell at me. J.delanoy ^gabs _adds 00:18, 26 October 2008 (UTC)

Nono, I wasn't yelling! :P> I was just concerned because I expanded the article and put it on the main page, and given my horrible article-writing skills I wanted as many people to improve as possible. :P> Keep up the good work! Master of Puppets _{Call me MoP! :)} 00:21, 26 October 2008 (UTC)

LOL! Thanks. (I'm sorry, the self-depreciation in that comment is simply awesome. I literally laughed out loud.) J.delanoy ^gabs _adds 00:25, 26 October 2008 (UTC)

Haha, glad I could amuse somebody. :) Cheers, Master of Puppets _{Call me MoP! :)} 01:03, 26 October 2008 (UTC)

Thanks again, bro.

It seems that if one is going to extend an olive branch to a Wikipedia vandal, it must first be assumed that said vandal has some common sense. Obviously, our "Simpsons" friend is lacking. :) I am absolutely convinced that he has an open acount at User:Westwind2009. I left a sock notice on the page which went unchallenged (typical Lyle123), but the account remains open and I've reported it twice. Can you do a bruddah a favor and slap a block on that account? Much thanks. --PMDrive1061 (talk) 00:43, 26 October 2008 (UTC)

I'll keep an eye on him, but I am reluctant to block an account with no edits that is not have a blatant violation of the username policy. Having gone through that experience at another wiki, I don't want to unintentionally drive someone away. Sorry. J.delanoy ^gabs _adds 00:48, 26 October 2008 (UTC)

If you want, I can ask a checkuser to look at it. J.delanoy ^gabs _adds 00:49, 26 October 2008 (UTC)

Sounds good to me. If it isn't Lyle, please feel free to delete my notices. There were no edits cretited to the account when I tagged it, not even the user page. --PMDrive1061 (talk) 00:51, 26 October 2008 (UTC)

You apparently have to have hard evidence before they will perform a checkuser. If you want to file a request on his other socks, you probably would catch a few stray ones, but there is nothing else I can do here. Sorry. J.delanoy ^gabs _adds 01:44, 26 October 2008 (UTC)

unusual name

I know this is not a social page <g> but there are not all that many "delanoy"s in this world. If your family is from Massachusetts, you are a cousin (the families in the Plymouth area are all related at this point, it seems). Collect (talk) 02:05, 26 October 2008 (UTC)

Nope. If you would like to continue this conversation, please do so via email. J.delanoy ^gabs _adds 02:07, 26 October 2008 (UTC)

User talk:Allo002

The user has gotten a whole stack of warnings, perhaps a wikibreak might be in order so they can read over our rules? They have avoided getting blocked by editing a lot, then not at all, then a lot again, but I think they have had enough overall warnings now to warrant some sort of action. --Terrillja (talk) 02:18, 26 October 2008 (UTC)

Reply to message

Hey thanks for the message. I read the article you provided. As far as the quote goes, I wrote differently than what I meant. I don't do all the contributing just so I can become a sysop. What I meant was that if being granted these privelages would help me fight vandalism easier. If I am nominated for adminship someday, I would accept and would like the idea of becoming one. Like I said, those privelages I am applying for is not 100% imperative to me. I fight vandalism, patrol new pages, and participate in AFD discussions because I have fun when I do it. Either way, it's not a big deal. Sorry if I sounded that way, though. ~~BTW: What was that Page Protection message you sent me about? I didn't request one.~~ Beano (talk) 04:21, 26 October 2008 (UTC)

Nevermind. you hit the wrong button. No big deal. Beano (talk) 04:21, 26 October 2008 (UTC)

(with regard to first, non indented message) Oh, in that case, please accept my apologies. I unfortunately have an unnerving tendency to jump to conclusions sometimes, and there^^ you go. Again, sorry. J.delanoy ^gabs _adds 04:27, 26 October 2008 (UTC)

Not a problem my friend. I do get what you're saying though. I get messages from people that's only goal is to be an administrator and I think it's pointless. I do what I do because it's A LOT of fun, and it's a semi-productive thing to do to pass the time when I'm bored. My goal is pretty much the same as what you said in the reply you linked me. It's really fun keeping things in ship-shape. Helping new users is the most fun I get out of doing what I do. Would I like to admin? Sure, but not bad enough to pour hours, days, and months, and even years into Wikipedia just so I can have the power. Beano (talk) 04:44, 26 October 2008 (UTC)

You are right certainly

Please teach me what should I do? I don't like worthless edition war. Need third persons help. I'm sorry, I annoy you and Rlevse.--Bukubku (talk) 03:16, 27 October 2008 (UTC)

Just go to Wikipedia:Mediation or Wikipedia:Mediation Cabal like Rlevse said. J.delanoy ^gabs _adds 03:17, 27 October 2008 (UTC)

Perhaps a different tactic?

I noted your efforts to address a situation on Rlevse's talk page.[9] A technique I've found sometimes helps is to break the thread, so to speak, and change venues for the discussion. In this case, perhaps moving the conversation to the user's talk page might be helpful. He's a pretty new user, and probably needs some help understanding how to get things going for a mediation; it might be helpful for someone of your experience to sort of show the way, help him to raise the question on the talk page of the article, and so on. Just a suggestion that you might find useful to de-escalate the situation. Best, Risker (talk) 03:19, 27 October 2008 (UTC)

It looks like he is going to start proceedings, so yeah. I hope they can get their dispute resolved. Whenever an ethnic conflict is involved, things get nasty very quickly. J.delanoy ^gabs _adds 03:28, 27 October 2008 (UTC)

Thank you for your, Rlevse's and J.delanoy's help. I ask involved parties. I have little knowledge of Wikipedia's rule and English. Please teach me continuing.--Bukubku (talk) 03:44, 27 October 2008 (UTC)

I have to get some sleep now. I do not know if I will be able to help you or not. I am going to college, and a lot of times, I have to do schoolwork when I get home. J.delanoy ^gabs _adds 03:49, 27 October 2008 (UTC)

RfA

1. Have you ever been blocked? Nope

2. Ever had an Editor Review? Nope

3. An RfA? Nope

4. What (if any) horrible skeletons lie in your editing closet? I once had to put myself on wikileave because I just got so frustrated with another user. A newbie tried to report me to admins for deleting his edits (which was agreed by all that it was spam) and I was just so frustrated, feeling like I did all this work to help Wikipedia for nothing. I was back within a week.

5. Got much recent experience at AfD? Recent, no. I have voted in several AfDs before.

6. Are there any major mainspace contribs or other subsantial edits that you are particularly proud of? Yes, I worked very hard on the Rainbow Brite article, and started the Emotionally unstable personality disorder article. I also recently tried to clean up the Abby Sciuto article which was labeled as sounding like a fan site. I occasionally go through the list of articles needing copyedit and clean them up.

7. Is there anyone else who has expressed interest in nomming you for adminship? Yes, User:Shicoco said she would support me.

8. Is there anyone specific you would have particularly liked to nominate you? (If yes, I can ask them if they would like to co-nom.) You and Shicoco would be fine. :) RainbowOfLight ^Talk 02:57, 26 October 2008 (UTC)

OK, I'll proceed further as soon as I can. Maybe tomorrow, but I doubt it. (Gahh!! Homework...) J.delanoy ^gabs _adds 04:31, 26 October 2008 (UTC)

Thanks, just let me know. By the way, can I "steal" your dropdown that says "did I block you, delete your edits, or do something I shouldn't have done?" I'll modify it slightly to show that I'm not (yet) an admin. RainbowOfLight ^Talk 03:29, 27 October 2008 (UTC)

Sure, go ahead. The code is on User talk:J.delanoy/talkheader. Cheers! J.delanoy ^gabs _adds 03:31, 27 October 2008 (UTC)

Whoops, lol, thanks for the edit. You caught that FAST. RainbowOfLight ^Talk 05:03, 28 October 2008 (UTC)

Heh. No problem. I have your talk page on my watchlist, and I saw you add the header. I wondered what part you used, so I took a look and saw that. I can imagine how much fun it would be if I was getting yelled at for edits you made. I would have gone out of my mind, and I probably would never have figured out where they were coming from. :P J.delanoy ^gabs _adds 05:08, 28 October 2008 (UTC)

Delete edit

Hi you have written this on my talk "Please stop adding inappropriate external links to Wikipedia. It is considered spamming and Wikipedia is not a vehicle for advertising or promotion. Since Wikipedia uses nofollow tags, additions of links to Wikipedia will not alter search engine rankings. If you continue spamming, you will be blocked from editing Wikipedia. J.delanoygabsadds 15:16, 27 October 2008 (UTC)"

But the links, in my humble opinion, are not inappropriate, because the page contains java applications opensource that implements the algorithms descibed in the articles. For these reasons i would insert the links and not for spam.

Regards —Preceding unsigned comment added by Angelus1383 (talk • contribs) 15:44, 27 October 2008 (UTC)

Please read our policy on external links. J.delanoy ^gabs _adds 15:46, 27 October 2008 (UTC)

I don't believe I had violated any rule of policy. Perhaps only conflict of interest, but having regard to the relevance of the links I think you can accept. However if you tell me that I cann't I don't dwell yet--Angelus1383 (talk) 16:03, 27 October 2008 (UTC)

Maybe from my last message is not clear, but I'm waiting a response, because i don't think I have made a mistake--Angelus1383 (talk) 16:43, 27 October 2008 (UTC)

What do you mean when you say "However if you tell me that I cann't I don't dwell yet"? I can't figure it out. J.delanoy ^gabs _adds 16:45, 27 October 2008 (UTC)

I mean that if you are sure that the links are opposed to rules, not yet put, but imho the link are pertinent and useful. Anyway thank you for explanations--Angelus1383 (talk) 16:52, 27 October 2008 (UTC)

Well, to be honest, now I'm not sure if they were inappropriate or not. The primary reason I reverted you was because you were adding links to lots of pages in quick succession. J.delanoy ^gabs _adds 17:09, 27 October 2008 (UTC)

Ok, I appreciate your honesty, if you want i can post here, or in the relative pages, the links so you can control them. Thanks--Angelus1383 (talk) 17:27, 27 October 2008 (UTC)

How I told you I entered the links in the relative pages, you can check now.--Angelus1383 (talk) 22:22, 27 October 2008 (UTC)

I think it should be fine. Cheers! J.delanoy ^gabs _adds 22:26, 27 October 2008 (UTC)

Well; my Edits were very relevant. However, if you are an Admin, I bow to your decision. Are you an Associate of Akrediki, Googlean etc [the blatant Christian POVs]? Thank you. I see: you are an Admin, I bow to your decision.

Inappropriate deletion

I am extremely angry and upset that you have deleted the 'Orsumball' article as 'pure vandalism'. That is completely untrue and is a blatant abuse of your power. With all due respect you do not live in Clayton, Melbourne, Australia so you probably wouldn't have heard of Orsumball. That is why a wikipedia article was created to inform others of this sport.

If there is a particular aspect of the article that should be corrected that is one thing, but to delete articles for no reason other then that you have no knowledge of the content is abhorrent. Unless you recognise and correct your inappropriate actions I will be taking my complaint to a higher authority.

I hope you realise I am deeply and personally offended by your actions. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Lewy 4466 (talk • contribs) 16:16, 27 October 2008 (UTC)

Read WP:OR, please. Tan | 39 16:18, 27 October 2008 (UTC)

I deleted it as "Pure vandalism"? What the hell are you talking about? Read the fucking deletion log. Why is it so difficult for you people to fucking pay attention? Geez. J.delanoy ^gabs _adds

Rough day, J? ;-) Tan | 39 16:23, 27 October 2008 (UTC)

Yeah, pretty much. My gym teacher is crazy. She made us run a mile and a half and it's like 35 out, with probably 10MPH winds. I guess I just blew there. Stupidity annoys me at any time, but I am not in the mood for getting blasted at for doing a G4. J.delanoy ^gabs _adds 16:26, 27 October 2008 (UTC)

Oh, I wasn't calling you out on it; I was just amused. Tan | 39 16:27, 27 October 2008 (UTC)

Thanks for that

I appreciate it. :) Sionus (talk) 17:26, 27 October 2008 (UTC)

Huh?

What about the previous 3-in-a-row? (Or perhaps I accidentally hit on a good move?) Frank | talk 18:05, 27 October 2008 (UTC)

That pawn has already moved off the starting block..... J.delanoy ^gabs _adds 18:08, 27 October 2008 (UTC)

D'oh! Frank | talk 18:12, 27 October 2008 (UTC)

Heh. I was like "Oh, good move. I never saw that coming. Wait..........." :D J.delanoy ^gabs _adds 18:13, 27 October 2008 (UTC)

Is this OK?

Is it OK to change the color of the Wikipedia redirect arrow to blue? -- IRP ☎ 18:10, 27 October 2008 (UTC)

I would definitely discuss it first. Probably the best place to do that would be the technical village pump. J.delanoy ^gabs _adds 18:12, 27 October 2008 (UTC)

Mercantilism

Hi,

You just reverted an edit I made on the article on Mercantilism. Before my edit, the opening read "Mercantilism is the idea that a colony should export more goods than it imports and that a colony should sell at higher prices and buy at lower prices". This is inaccurate because this policy was followed by colonial powers and independent states, not by colonies. The role of colonies was to provide the markets with which colonial powers could maintain a trade surplus. Otherwise, it would be the colonies that accumulated gold and silver, going against the perceived interests of the mother country.

I checked and the version of the article that you restored has been in place for a while, but it is wrong. Check, for instance the link below:

http://www.econlib.org/library/Enc/Mercantilism.html

Thanks!

- Luis —Preceding unsigned comment added by 35.13.219.250 (talk) 20:18, 27 October 2008 (UTC)

You are undoubtably correct, and I am looking for a version of that article that is not vandalized. Please accept my sincere apologies. J.delanoy ^gabs _adds 20:22, 27 October 2008 (UTC)

Thank you for your prompt response. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 35.13.219.250 (talk) 20:41, 27 October 2008 (UTC)

Question

I was blocking this vandal and the following question occurred to me: What's the difference between being blocked infinitely and being blocked indefinitely? I wasn't sure. Spencer^T♦^C 21:47, 27 October 2008 (UTC)

This would me my guess, even though I'm not an administrator: Being blocked infinitely must mean forever and ever; being blocked indefinitely probably means for an unknown amount of time, which could be approved or not by a user's unblock request. I have always seen vandalism-only accounts being blocked indefinitely, but that's my guess. SchfiftyThree ^(talk!) 21:51, 27 October 2008 (UTC)

The reason for that, Schfifty, is because "indefinite" is at the top of the list of suggested block times, while "infinite" is at the bottom. For the most part, there is no practical difference between the two, since an "indefinite" block will not expire until an admin lifts it, same as an "infinite" block.

IMO, the distinction is only useful when dealing with established users. Blocking an established user "indefinitely" could mean, "You have been blocked until [insert problem here] has been resolved.", whereas blocking infinitely would mean, "See ya!". When dealing with simple vandals, "indefinite" is preferred solely because it is easier to click on. J.delanoy ^gabs _adds 22:02, 27 October 2008 (UTC)

Rfa Decisions

Hi. I would like some help. I want to change my mind on this request for adminship from oppose to neutral. Do I just cross out my oppose and write something new under neutral? Ollie Fury _{Get ready for October 31} 22:49, 27 October 2008 (UTC)

Yeah, just strike your oppose and indent it (perhaps leave a small note telling where you moved your vote) and then just write whatever you want in the neutral section. J.delanoy ^gabs _adds 22:51, 27 October 2008 (UTC)

Hi again. I seem to have made two votes, oppose and neutral. I don't know how to void the oppose without messing up the numbers. Ollie Fury _{Get ready for October 31} 23:12, 27 October 2008 (UTC)

I fixed it. All you have to do is add a colon after the number sign. J.delanoy ^gabs _adds 23:17, 27 October 2008 (UTC)

I tried that but must have done something wrong. Thanks. Ollie Fury _{Get ready for October 31} 23:18, 27 October 2008 (UTC)

User requesting deletion

Please see User talk:IRP (Post: Re: Do you want this deleted?) -- IRP ☎ 22:51, 27 October 2008 (UTC)

Done J.delanoy ^gabs _adds 22:53, 27 October 2008 (UTC)

Your recent block

Hey, JD, did you know that this user is a sock puppet of Serafin? I wouldn't call that user a vandalism-only-account, but rather a sock puppet of Serafin. Your choice! SchfiftyThree ^(talk!) 23:42, 27 October 2008 (UTC)

I was not familiar with that sockpuppeteer's modus operendi, so I just blocked as a VOA to be safe. J.delanoy ^gabs _adds 23:44, 27 October 2008 (UTC)

Deletion of zuguide link

I'm sorry, I'mv new at this, so I'm not putting in a lot of references. I saw that you deleted an addition of the zuguide external link from the Cate Blanchett article. I happenned to see zuguide for Cate Blanchett before you deleted it, it looks like you are not the first, and I really don't understand why. I really like zuguide's Cate Blanchett page, I love movie trailers, and movie stills. On the zuguide help pages, it says the material is licensed. I read through the external links guidelines, it also seems to fit those, since it seems to complement wikipedia, it's a rich media site, is not copyright violation, it's free, and you don't need to register. In other words, I read through all the external link guidelines and it seems to fit.

I actually use external links in wikipedia quite a lot, since unlike google searches they are more reliable. In this case, I think deleting this link (and I presume others to zuguide) is unfortunate. Please let me know what you think. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Movietrailerfan (talk • contribs) 00:10, 28 October 2008 (UTC)

I honestly do not remember making that revert. It may have been in error. J.delanoy ^gabs _adds 00:19, 28 October 2008 (UTC)

Could you check it out? Respond, and if you think it's right undo your change? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Movietrailerfan (talk • contribs) 01:26, 28 October 2008 (UTC)

I think an appropriate response here would be to ask you a few questions. For example, your account is an awesome 40 minutes old, and yet you know

How to use a page history
What a talk page is
That I am an administrator (the only logical explanation why you did not simply re-add the link)

How is that?

Also, why are you contacting me now about an revert I performed four days ago on another user? J.delanoy ^gabs _adds 01:34, 28 October 2008 (UTC)

Fair. Let me answer your questions. I did some wikipedia editing about a year ago, but stopped, because the things I added, including just spelling errors were reverted, it was just very frustrating. I had a login, but I can't remember the login or password. I do have over 20 years experience in programming so figuring out a page history and talk page, was pretty simple.

As I wrote earlier, I saw the link to zuguide.com when I looked at the article, tried out the link, liked it, but then it was gone, and this upset me, because this seems to happen all the time in wikipedia. So I decided I should do something about it, or at least learn about it. I read some of the guidelines about Third Party and stuff like that, but the pages said the best thing to do before anything else was to "Talk" to the user who reverted the entry. I figured I could just add it again, but that would just be begging the question, this time, if I'm going to get involved, I want to figure out how it works, so that I don't just add to an entry and find it deleted 10 minutes later.

On your page, it says fairly openly that you an administrator, so I figured you are a good person to ask. Your answer was a bit disappointing, because you said it might be a mistake, but I figured since you willing to admit that possibility you would be a good person to answer my questions.

In any case, can we get back to the question at hand? And let me ask another question, given that you are an admin, can I just undo your undo? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Movietrailerfan (talk • contribs) 11:55, 28 October 2008 (UTC)

Yep. Anyone can undo anyone else (except for obvious stuff like blatant vandalism, and as long as they are not edit-warring.). Administrators don't have any special status here, just expanded technical abilities, which they are only allowed to apply in accordance to establish practice and policy. As far as the link goes, it makes little difference to me whether or not the link was there. I apologize for not assuming good faith. If you want to re-add the link, I personally have no opinion, good or bad, regarding its inclusion. Thanks, J.delanoy ^gabs _adds 12:56, 28 October 2008 (UTC)

Main Page redesign

The Main Page Redesign proposal is currently conducting a straw poll to select five new designs, before an RFC in which one will be proposed to replace the Main Page. The poll closes on October 31st. Your input would be hugely appreciated! Many thanks, Pretzels^Talk! 08:59, 28 October 2008 (UTC)

Thanks

You're right; we didn't. I wasn't sure how to respond to that one! :-) Frank | talk 14:04, 28 October 2008 (UTC)

Ha, yeah. I was like "Yes! ... no......" J.delanoy ^gabs _adds 14:17, 28 October 2008 (UTC)

Rollback

See User_talk:Slrubenstein#Block_template. Trying to work around an odd error message! Tim Vickers (talk) 15:57, 28 October 2008 (UTC)

Link Help

Hi there, as you just introduced me to the Wikipedia :-) I have to annoy you with a question. I'm not happy with the contributions of 69.117.237.203 as it only consists of inserting links. These links are of no quality as it is a BLOG with embedded videos from kickapps.com/videos (therefore now own or unique content) and additionally every visitor of this site gets to see heaps of ADVERTISING. I do not see any sense in keeping these links. As I'm not 100 % sure if I can just remove all of them myself, or if I have to "ask" someone to do so, or if Wikipedia is happy to see these links as no one else has done anything against these links yet. Thanks in advance and sorry for annoying/stealing your time. Cheers --Aff123a (talk) 18:51, 28 October 2008 (UTC)

No you don't have to ask anyone. If you see something that you think shouldn't be there, change it! That's what Wikipedia is all about! Just use common sense, and you should be fine. As far as our spam-happy friend, it looks like all the links he has added have been removed. Some useful templates to warn people like that may be found at WP:UTM. If he keeps doing it after receiving a level four warning, report him on WP:AIV. Hope that helps. J.delanoy ^gabs _adds 18:59, 28 October 2008 (UTC)

Thanks for your help. Cheers Aff123a (talk) 19:04, 28 October 2008 (UTC)

Lord Buckley

Hey J.delanoy, just reminding you that a edit suammry should have been used here opposed to rollback [10]. Not a clear case of vandalism. Thanks, Tiptoety ^talk 19:29, 28 October 2008 (UTC)

Well, I don't actually remember making that edit. I'm pretty sure I thought he was testing something. I generally revert all editing tests with the default edit summary, but thanks for the note. I'll try to leave a more descriptive edit summary in the future. J.delanoy ^gabs _adds 19:38, 28 October 2008 (UTC)

No worries. :-) What it looks like to me is a IP who is just a bit confused as to how en.wiki works, but by no means malicious. You might try engaging him, if you so please. Tiptoety ^talk 19:40, 28 October 2008 (UTC)

Pennsylvania

Are you from PA, or is it just on your watchlist? By the way, I found your list of random things on your userpage hilarious. Grsz ^Review! 19:58, 28 October 2008 (UTC)

No and no. I am using a software tool called Huggle to fight vandalism. Huggle scans Special:Recentchanges and it sets up a queue of diffs made by editors not on its whitelist. Each diff is sent to me to see if it is vandalism or no. If it is, I can hit one key to automatically revert the vandalism and issue an appropriate level warning to the vandal. So what happened was, someone vandalized Pennsylvania, Huggle saw the change and sent me the diff, and I reverted. Also, I'm glad you enjoyed my list. IMHO, User:Thingg's is better, but yeah. Have a good evening! J.delanoy ^gabs _adds 21:11, 28 October 2008 (UTC)

Ok, I just saw you reverting that one pretty frequently so thought I'd ask. Grsz ^Review! 22:20, 28 October 2008 (UTC)

Unsuccessful redirect

Please delete: Wikipedia:List of rollbackers -- IRP ☎ 22:40, 28 October 2008 (UTC)

Done. In the future, if you want pages that you created to be deleted, you can just put {{db-author}} on them. J.delanoy ^gabs _adds 22:45, 28 October 2008 (UTC)

This page also needs to be deleted

A user created Image talk:HersheyCo.PNG with nonsense. Another user who didn't have the privilege level to delete it could do nothing but blank it. Please see the page history. -- IRP ☎ 22:58, 28 October 2008 (UTC)

Done, thanks. J.delanoy ^gabs _adds 22:59, 28 October 2008 (UTC)

This Just In... page

Hey i was wondering why my page was deleted it was not a copy right violation sorry about not signing thanks Joseph

 —Preceding unsigned comment added by Airguitarducks (talk • contribs) 23:49, 28 October 2008 (UTC)

Hi Airguitarducks.

I didn't delete it because I thought it was a copyright violation, I deleted it because it did not assert notability. You may wish to also read our guide to writing your first article. J.delanoy ^gabs _adds 00:03, 29 October 2008 (UTC)

Ok thanks when i can find notability i will try and re-write it. i wasn't sure how to start it out so i just tried i'll work more on it later thanks —Preceding unsigned comment added by Airguitarducks (talk • contribs) 00:42, 29 October 2008 (UTC)

Huggle and AIV

You always beat me!!! Just sayin'. :) لenna vecia 14:52, 29 October 2008 (UTC)

Mwahahahahaaaa!!!! J.delanoy ^gabs _adds 14:52, 29 October 2008 (UTC)

I was about to post a reply to Jennavecia about how I had given Serge a 4im last night and you go in and block him while I am typing. You are just too quick. --Terrillja (talk) 14:56, 29 October 2008 (UTC)

No, you just type slow... ;-) J.delanoy ^gabs _adds 14:57, 29 October 2008 (UTC)

Ouch, I will let that personal attack slide, but only because you have blocked so many users that I have submitted to AIV. :-p --Terrillja (talk) 15:04, 29 October 2008 (UTC)

.......... No, I won't go there. :DJ.delanoy ^gabs _adds 15:16, 29 October 2008 (UTC)

Thanks!

Hi J.delanoy! Thanks for reverting the vandalism on my userpage - I didn't even notice until just now. Thanks for your help. Kind regards, --Soetermans | is listening | what he'd do now? 16:52, 29 October 2008 (UTC)

No problem. Cheers! J.delanoy ^gabs _adds 16:54, 29 October 2008 (UTC)

Frobisher Bay

Hello... seems you beat me to it with the block. Anyway, there is no need to revert yourself and leave the material in; it was not in the article to begin with, and is completely uncited. I've offered to assist Stan with sourcing the material, but he has chosen instead to ignore that in favour of repeatedly adding it. --Ckatz^chat_spy 17:19, 29 October 2008 (UTC)

Well, I think it is kind of hypocritcal for my to block him for edit warring and then revert his edits, but I don't know. I'm 99% sure that that was the first time I have ever blocked someone for 3RR. J.delanoy ^gabs _adds 17:25, 29 October 2008 (UTC)

There's clearly a lot of sockpuppetry going on here - see Bay and James Bay and many others Stephenb (Talk) 17:22, 29 October 2008 (UTC)

Hrm? I'll get a checkuser... J.delanoy ^gabs _adds 17:25, 29 October 2008 (UTC)

You can probably add User:Fred Jeremy to the list. (I guess it's a slow day in Frobisher Bay.) Thanks again. --Ckatz^chat_spy 17:32, 29 October 2008 (UTC)

I did some looking around. They are all socks of Swamilive. Block on sight in the future. J.delanoy ^gabs _adds 17:50, 29 October 2008 (UTC)

There is similar vandalism of both Hudson Bay and Southern James Bay. Are these Swamilive socks too? Gary Tremblais (talk) 18:22, 29 October 2008 (UTC)

I have no doubt that you think you are awesome, Swami. Nice try, though. J.delanoy ^gabs _adds 18:26, 29 October 2008 (UTC)

How many feet does this Swamilive have? LOL! Gary Tremblais (talk) 18:40, 29 October 2008 (UTC)

Until we meet again! *waves* :D J.delanoy ^gabs _adds 19:02, 29 October 2008 (UTC)

Changes

If a true statement is made, what right do the mods have to decide it is vandalism if they know nothing regarding the issue stated?

timestamp for bot. J.delanoy ^gabs _adds 06:41, 30 October 2008 (UTC)

berlin

why are you undoing my corrections? i have been added one reference and fixed some tags. please use the talk page if you disagree. TaborG (talk) 23:49, 29 October 2008 (UTC)

I undid my change on Berlin. Did I forget to remove the warning? I'll check. J.delanoy ^gabs _adds 23:50, 29 October 2008 (UTC)

I did not see a warning. But you just reverted again, 3RR by now. What's happening? 00:00, 30 October 2008 (UTC)

I;m sorry, there is an absolutely insane amount of vandalism now. I undid my reversion, and I told Huggle to ignore you. Sorry this is so terse. J.delanoy ^gabs _adds 00:03, 30 October 2008 (UTC)

Got it now! I think we are fine. TaborG (talk) 00:06, 30 October 2008 (UTC)

Thanks

		CVU Anti-Vandalism Award
		Thanks for beating me to lot's of reverts :) Matt/TheFearow (Talk) 00:32, 30 October 2008 (UTC)

Thanks! (what are you standing around here for??!! Get back to work!!!! :D J.delanoy ^gabs _adds 00:33, 30 October 2008 (UTC)

The time it takes to download Huggle (which I have found is slower for me than TWINKLE and Special:RecentChanges :) Matt/TheFearow (Talk) 00:58, 30 October 2008 (UTC)

Not sure I follow you... J.delanoy ^gabs _adds 00:59, 30 October 2008 (UTC)

You asked what I was standing around here for :) Matt/TheFearow (Talk) 01:28, 30 October 2008 (UTC)

Hah. Wow, I'm slow.... J.delanoy ^gabs _adds 01:29, 30 October 2008 (UTC)

hello

my edits have actually been acurate

timestamp for bot. J.delanoy ^gabs _adds 06:41, 30 October 2008 (UTC)

Oct 29 08 incident

You just reverted an edit I made that was both true and notable. I may not know all the ins and outs of Wikipedia, but I do know that you shouldn't have reverted it.

Wow. Now I have to go back and fix it, 'cause you didn't even bother to do that when I explained it. Also, you could have looked at my previous edits and seen that they were correct and concise. Jerk.

After reading the diffs, I Endorse J.delanoy's action. While it was a strange event, it isn't relevant to the article. --Terrillja (talk) 01:40, 30 October 2008 (UTC)

Hey, Terrillja, do me a favour: hop on over to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virginia_Polytechnic_Institute_and_State_University and delete the part of the article that says "history" and then delete the part that says "Massacre". While it was a strange event, it isn't relevant to the article. Dumbass.

wow

how did u catch me that quick wen i changed only a few words?

The tool is called Huggle. Don't ask me why the creator named it that. J.delanoy ^gabs _adds 01:27, 30 October 2008 (UTC)

Another wow, from the other side of things

I've been running Huggle for the last few hours, and (I'm just now starting to use it, so I'm still slow) I've been just tailing you... You are right ahead of me, and faster on all accounts :) Awesome. In other news, The message above me cracked me up xD ~Pip 02:00, 30 October 2008 (UTC)

haha! Thanks! heh. I LOLed at that person, too. J.delanoy ^gabs _adds 02:01, 30 October 2008 (UTC)

And thanks for getting on Huggle. It was pretty insane for a bit there... J.delanoy ^gabs _adds 02:02, 30 October 2008 (UTC)

What happened?

I'm just curious to see what was on the page Jock Boy by User:PerkinsClass because I warned him. Do you remember? Thanks! Jock Boy (t-c) 02:43, 30 October 2008 (UTC)

Check your email. Unfortunately, it's not that great, but congrats on being good enough to get someone to create a page about you :D J.delanoy ^gabs _adds 02:46, 30 October 2008 (UTC)

-). Thanks! I can't wait to see the "nice things" said about me. You'd better run vandal! Jock Boy (t-c) 02: 48, 30 October 2008 (UTC) (don't worry, I wont bite him.)

Bayfield

Okay, now I want to know. I saw you'd unblocked him, and I was about to post that I agreed, because I didn't see anything either, in the contribs or deleted contribs. Then you reblocked, and you're kicking yourself into the next county... So, what'd you see? I'm dying of curiosity. :) --El on ka 04:18, 30 October 2008 (UTC)

Special:Contributions/IAmKenBayfield. I don't know if he's try to evade a block or what. Either way, I gave Tim a yellow bar when he logs in, and I don't want to get involved in something where I don't fully understand the background. That is why I did not "officially deny" Bayfield's (the first one) unblock request. J.delanoy ^gabs _adds 04:21, 30 October 2008 (UTC)

problem with a user

Hi J.delanoy I have a problem with an user. He has deleted the links that I have inserted after you have given me permission (do you remember our discussion 2 day ago). This is the link to discussion with user [11]. Thanks--Angelus1383 (talk) 11:07, 30 October 2008 (UTC)

E-mail

Please check your inbox. Best regards, --Kanonkas : Talk 12:04, 30 October 2008 (UTC)

Hello

Morning, Mr. Delanoy. I'd like to let you know I was interested in your chess game. Do you mind indefinately fully protecting it so that vandals won't blank it/start a game without me knowing?--Stereotyper (talk) 10:46, 28 October 2008 (UTC)

I'm not sure what you are asking. If I fully protected it, that would defeat the whole purpose of asking people if they wanted to play with me. J.delanoy ^gabs _adds 13:00, 28 October 2008 (UTC)

I meant protecting my chess file, not yours.--Stereotyper (talk) 19:15, 30 October 2008 (UTC)

Oh, sorry.

Done. J.delanoy ^gabs _adds 19:50, 30 October 2008 (UTC)

Wait, you want me to full-protect it? So that only admins can edit it? J.delanoy ^gabs _adds 19:50, 30 October 2008 (UTC)

user page protection.

Is it possible for you to protect my original userpage location? Although it isn't generally possible for anyone but established users to physycally modify my userpage, IP's can still do this. VandalismDestroyer | Talk to me 14:08, 30 October 2008 (UTC)

Done. J.delanoy ^gabs _adds 17:32, 30 October 2008 (UTC)

Thank you. Looks like the guy did it again 2 more times. I don't dare to click the date(s), because that's just too vile. VandalismDestroyer | Talk to me 23:39, 30 October 2008 (UTC)

Do you want me to delete those revisions? Then you can't look at them. J.delanoy ^gabs _adds 23:42, 30 October 2008 (UTC)

That would actually be nice. VandalismDestroyer | Talk to me 23:51, 30 October 2008 (UTC)

Done J.delanoy ^gabs _adds 23:58, 30 October 2008 (UTC)

He's back. He's going after my talk page now. Unfortunately, there's nothing that can really be done about that. VandalismDestroyer | Talk to me 01:14, 31 October 2008 (UTC)

Well, I guess I spoke too soon. Thanks. VandalismDestroyer | Talk to me 01:32, 31 October 2008 (UTC)

I did more than that. That image is used as an attack very frequently. Now it won't. J.delanoy ^gabs _adds 01:33, 31 October 2008 (UTC)

...and now it never even happened! [12] J.delanoy ^gabs _adds 01:40, 31 October 2008 (UTC)

All this seems to have incurred an unusual side effect. I am unable to see my talk page in huggle. I think that might be just a glitch. It's not a problem, just letting you know. VandalismDestroyer | Talk to me 01:47, 31 October 2008 (UTC)

Hmmm. I don't know. Your talk page had less than 500 revisions, so it shouldn't have broken the site. J.delanoy ^gabs _adds 01:49, 31 October 2008 (UTC)

I really hate to have to bother you again. He's at it again, this time targeting my alternate account. VandalismDestroyer | Talk to me 03:47, 31 October 2008 (UTC)

All right! :D He's operating from two IP ranges, and both are registered to the University of Boston!!!. I nuked one of the ranges for 2 weeks, and I made a note of the other, so if he comes after you, let me know. I have to go to sleep now, so if you're going out of your mind, tell someone to block 128.197.0.0/16 (Anon-Only AccountCreationBlocked) for two weeks with the block reason being {{schoolblock}}.

That is,

Enter the exact phrase "128.197.0.0/16" (without quotes) into the "user" section of Special:BlockIP,
Enter a block reason of {{schoolblock}} and
An expiry time of two weeks.

I go into so much detail because many admins are reluctant to apply rangeblocks, and I figured it would be easier (if you have to ask someone) if they have step-by-step instructions. I hope that helps, and BTW, I have watchlisted both of your pages. J.delanoy ^gabs _adds 04:32, 31 October 2008 (UTC)

		The RickK Anti-Vandalism Barnstar
		J.delanoy, thank you for all of the help that you have given me today. As a token of my appreciation, please take this barnstar. VandalismDestroyer \| Talk to me 04:48, 31 October 2008 (UTC)

Thanks, and it was no problem at all. Feel free to "bother" me whenever you want ;-) J.delanoy ^gabs _adds 05:18, 31 October 2008 (UTC)

Recreation of a CSD?

You may want to look at User:DrummerMike because it might be a recreation of Michael Barrie which was CSD'd yesterday. I stumbled across this because he is listed on the List of drummers. Thanks Soundvisions1 (talk) 14:50, 30 October 2008 (UTC)

I don't think that it is a problem. Many times users are encouraged to develop articles in their userspace, and it appears that this is what he is trying to do. J.delanoy ^gabs _adds 17:38, 30 October 2008 (UTC)

Wow. That was fast...

Sorry, that was too good of a moment not to share :) ˉˉ^anetode╦╩ 20:06, 30 October 2008 (UTC)

haha! I seriously could not believe how fast it got vandalized again. I mean, I removed the template, clicked "save page", and clicked "my watchlist", and there was the vandalism on my watchlist. J.delanoy ^gabs _adds 20:13, 30 October 2008 (UTC)

Vandal proof user-page

Hi there, building on the success of your "un-vandalizeable" user-page, I've decided to employ the same tactic of using hidden messages to deter vandals from finding my sub-pages. [13] Cheers --Flewis^(talk) 09:17, 31 October 2008 (UTC)

Image:PalinInDover-cropped2.JPG

Hi. I just received an e-mail from Roger H. Goun, the creator of the image of Palin, seeking proper attribution. My original upload properly attributed the photo to him and contained a link to the original flickr image. When you moved the image, the attribution was, at best, obscured. Is there some way to fix this? Thanks. --Evb-wiki (talk) 14:42, 31 October 2008 (UTC)

Sorry for that. It looks like he (rather clumsily) attempted to fix it himself. I combined the templates, and I will send him a Flickrmail explaining that it was my fault, not yours. Again, I apologize for causing you this problem. J.delanoy ^gabs _adds 14:51, 31 October 2008 (UTC)

Spilt milk. Thanks. --Evb-wiki (talk) 14:58, 31 October 2008 (UTC)

revision on Long Ashton

Hi, you recently reverted an edit by 87.86.172.35 on Long Ashton. I can see why you deleted the URL as linkspam but the rest of the edit about the cricket club seemed OK to me (if in need of wikifying & formatting) was there a a particular reason?— Rod ^talk 16:37, 31 October 2008 (UTC)

You're right. I self-reverted. J.delanoy ^gabs _adds 17:08, 31 October 2008 (UTC)

Thanks I've wikified & taken out the linkspam.— Rod ^talk 17:32, 31 October 2008 (UTC)

Email

You've got mail. JoshuaZ (talk) 19:22, 31 October 2008 (UTC)

Already answered. J.delanoy ^gabs _adds 19:26, 31 October 2008 (UTC)

Maybe not... J.delanoy ^gabs _adds 19:26, 31 October 2008 (UTC)

If the edits were deleted could you just email me the IP address used and the time stamp? That would probably be enough. The IP addresses are slightly dynamic as I understand it so they'll need to know what time they were ocurring at. JoshuaZ (talk) 19:29, 31 October 2008 (UTC)

OK. J.delanoy ^gabs _adds 19:29, 31 October 2008 (UTC)

Greetings!

On this day, 31 October, SchfiftyThree would just like to wish you a happy Halloween! You didn't dress up in a costume and go trick-or-treating last night, did you? SchfiftyThree ^(talk!) 22:08, 31 October 2008 (UTC)

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