User talk:Luk/Archives/2008/01

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Happy New Year!

Dear friend, I hope you had a wonderful New Year's Eve, and that 2008 is your best year yet! ~ Riana ⁂ 02:25, 2 January 2008 (UTC)

Yayy!! Happy New Year :) - Alison ^❤ 23:49, 2 January 2008 (UTC)

Help desk?

Happy New Year. I've got a bot/ vandal problem in another wiki media project, www.femaanswers.org. Apparent spam bot registers new user for each edit, but auto blocking not working. My understanding how to block this activity is insufficient. I've poked around to determine how to do an IP Check over at my site, without success. I thought I'd ask someone who knows? Any help appreciated. Cheers. Castellanet (talk) 21:13, 2 January 2008 (UTC)

Replied on this user's talk page - 21:41, 2 January 2008 (UTC)

Thank you for your thoughtful, detailed response. Unfortunately, I have problem installing the extensions you suggest, but now I don't doubt this is what I need to do, so you have given me new reasons to change the site host so I can have control. You are making our cyber world a friendly place! Merci beaucoup et Bonnee Année! Castellanet (talk) 01:01, 3 January 2008 (UTC)

Livadia (yacht)

You're right, and I shouldn't edit via three browser windows. I've restored it to the blanked version. Thanks for the heads up. Pedro :  Chat  22:15, 2 January 2008 (UTC)

Shibumi2 unblock request

Here. Just FYI ... - Alison ^❤ 23:49, 2 January 2008 (UTC)

Thanks for the notice. He sent me an email and I replied to his talk page. -- lucasbfr ^{ho ho ho} 09:34, 3 January 2008 (UTC)

Block

After my bot is done redirecting all the cities in the state I usually go back and look at all the broken redirects and fix them - I don't think I should have been blocked. Ohmpandya (Talk) 18:17, 6 January 2008 (UTC)

I did discuss this. Please give me access again. Ohmpandya (Talk) 18:25, 6 January 2008 (UTC)

Sure[1] Not eveything is about AWB the discussion is around the middle. Ohmpandya (Talk) 18:30, 6 January 2008 (UTC) Or you can read the whole thing to find it...Ohmpandya (Talk) 18:30, 6 January 2008 (UTC)

Ohmpandya

It sounded OK to me to create the redirects, but I had to stress not to create ones to non-existent pages because yes, that would be a waste. Obviously, I didn't realize he was going to create so many so fast (at least three thousand in just the past week or so!). If they all need to be deleted, I can do that.   jj137 ^♠ 22:26, 6 January 2008 (UTC)

We probably should get a larger consensus on this before continuing (and if so, probably with a bot). I'm not entirely sure continuing is the best idea; you cited earlier it wastes server resources, and I think it probably does. Well, the decision is not up to me. :)   jj137 ^♠ 00:57, 7 January 2008 (UTC)

Based on this[2] do you think I should get access, and continue doing what I was doing. Look in "Redirects States" in Village Pump (all) If not, well :(Ohmpandya (Talk) 21:29, 9 January 2008 (UTC)

I saw your reply on village pump. Do you have suggestion for a bot? (Which would be the easiest+best) Ohmpandya (Talk) 20:06, 10 January 2008 (UTC)

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hi

hi about : No evidence on the website that this is a free image i did not leave any image on my Short article,i used online adobe to format it to pdf so wikpedia would upload it as it said word documenrs are not accepted. please advise me on the next step. thanking you so very much —Preceding unsigned comment added by Pharmacy20000 (talk • contribs) 19:30, 11 January 2008 (UTC)

Replied on this user's talk page - 19:38, 11 January 2008 (UTC)

AWB

Can you regnant me permission to use AWB, so I can use it for a different purpose. NOT MAKING REDIRECTS. ? Thanks! Ohmpandya (Talk to Me...) 02:39, 14 January 2008 (UTC)

 Done :) -- lucasbfr ^talk 08:16, 14 January 2008 (UTC)

roflmao newb

why do u keep editing my shit its not funny anymore man. stop ranting all your bullshit or ill chop your balls of. anyway the shti i did to the page bus and voldemort are rly cool. I cant believe u actually get paid for this shit. when is saw u reedited my shit i was liek '0mg wtf00x that n00bs lol i pwn u ass..

than kyou for your time.

Regards

Bono. (u kno teh one from that submarine band.)

ps: i help lil kids in afrika —Preceding unsigned comment added by 87.251.40.71 (talk) 12:25, 17 January 2008 (UTC)

Don't hesitate to go to school. Really. I mean it. That's... Wow... -- lucasbfr ^talk 12:28, 17 January 2008 (UTC)

Edit war

If I am in an edit war it is only with user:JdeJ who is in an edit war with me and I hope he has been warned about edit warring too. Can you please step in to mediate the article France. Signsolid (talk) 17:51, 17 January 2008 (UTC)

Replied on this user's talk page - 17:54, 17 January 2008 (UTC)

With all due respect, I've made two similar reverts to the article. I've made other edits to the same article, sure, but on completely different subjects. I admit that I'm a bit surprised by your warning, as I've never seen this warning after just two edits. I note in passing that Signsolid has a history of attacking me because of my nationality, deleting content and lying about my actions. You're free to check his edit history and mine. Cheers JdeJ (talk) 17:56, 17 January 2008 (UTC)

Replied on this user's talk page - 18:04, 17 January 2008 (UTC)

I've taken the matter to the France talk page but could do with some third party intervention to see that a neutral POV is taken. Signsolid (talk) 17:57, 17 January 2008 (UTC)

User:JdeJ is obviously an experienced user who knows how to make sure his opinion sticks over others and is blotting out my opinion with his experience. Signsolid (talk) 17:59, 17 January 2008 (UTC)

User:JdeJ has found 2 or 3 newspaper article syaing the UK's economy fell behind that of France's and he gone through Wikipedia like a tornado changing rankings and figures and throwing out IMF, World Bank, and CIA factbook figures and rankings, which were the gold standard of rankings and people didn't dispute over figures and rankings. Signsolid (talk) 18:20, 17 January 2008 (UTC)

Well, more lies. I've edited two articles with this information, the UK and France. Hardly any tornado. And I haven't taken out a single source by any organisation in doing so, as can be seen from the edit history on when I first introduced my edit. In both cases did I source a sentence that previously was unsourced. Yesterday, I did remove an old IMF estimate that Signsolid tried to insert over the Financial Times, despite the fact the he had been told repeatedly that it was a very old estimate and thus not qualified as source. I'm getting tired on Signsolid lying about my actions, attacking me over my nationality and attacking me over my supposed political views. I hope actions is taken against him. JdeJ (talk) 18:42, 17 January 2008 (UTC)

No Title

That's even more weird. It's working for me now... I suppose it's possible that it was a cached result. Sorry for taking up some of your time. --StuartGilbert (talk) 10:28, 18 January 2008 (UTC)

No problems, happy to see it works! -- lucasbfr ^talk 10:35, 18 January 2008 (UTC)

Politics of N Ireland

Hi - yeah, I realise it wasn't quite per blocking policy, but I've left a note under the unblock explaining the circumstances and saying that I don't have a problem with unblock if that's what the reviewing admin thinks. BLACKKITE 11:26, 18 January 2008 (UTC)

Your block on User:Justinm1978

I highly suggest the checkuser clerks give some serious thought to the process used to validate whether or not someone is a sockpuppet. The evidence given was suspect at best, considering that I am an established user and it should be clear if you can see my IP that I have been editing from the same two or three IP's for months now (I have static IP's at all of my locations), with an occasional edit from somewhere else. I am not participating in the discussion because it is cyclical and a rehash of what was talked about earlier.

The level of insulted I feel by this is not quite measurable at this moment, but rest assured that it high. At least you removed the block, but it should never have been given in the first place. I will be lodging a complaint because of this. Justinm1978 (talk) 14:45, 15 January 2008 (UTC)

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Do you think I was justified in raising this Checkuser concern with User:Rhetor230? I'd never made the request before and the edit history looked so suspicious to me. Alatari (talk) 18:39, 18 January 2008 (UTC)

Yes, User:Rhetor230 broke 3RR and a CU was warranted. The User:Justinm1978 fiasco was my screw up not yours, and the edits looked suspicious to me too. -- lucasbfr ^talk 19:02, 18 January 2008 (UTC)

61.68.54.158

Hi. Please consider extending your block due to this egregious personal attack. Thanks!   — Jeff G. (talk|contribs) 11:52, 19 January 2008 (UTC)

 Done, I'm playing with a new tool, still need to get my hands on it. -- lucasbfr ^talk 11:54, 19 January 2008 (UTC)

Thanks for reverting

Thanks for reverting vandalism to my user talk page. As you probably know very well, the mere act of fighting vandals occasionally makes them take an interest in us. When that happens, it's nice to see that fellow Wikipedians are looking out for each other. Doczilla (talk) 22:29, 19 January 2008 (UTC)

Check this pictures

Image:IllyriaPreRome.jpg http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:IllyriaPreRome.jpg This picture was taken from these website: http://s151.photobucket.com/albums/s130/olvios300/Illyria/?action=view&current=Illryians.jpg

Image:EpirusEduMap.jpg http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:EpirusEduMap.jpg

This picture was taken from these website: http://photobucket.com/mediadetail/?media=http%3A%2F%2Fi151.photobucket.com%2Falbums%2Fs130%2Folvios300%2FEpirusOK.jpg&searchTerm=epirus&pageOffset=1

They should be deleted,I have faith in your work and thank you for teaching me the writte way of upload the files.Thank you--Taulant23 (talk) 22:34, 19 January 2008 (UTC)

Those are mine and that site is mine.Megistias (talk) 23:51, 19 January 2008 (UTC)

I have photobucket and flickr accounts and i put maps there i work on after i make them for this place.I can prove it to any mod any time of day.Megistias (talk) 23:52, 19 January 2008 (UTC)

Taulant has been banned many times for vandalising disrupting and calling me racist names and much more stuff.My maps are sourced and discussed.Megistias (talk) 23:54, 19 January 2008 (UTC)

See this Lucas.helloMegistias (talk) 00:18, 20 January 2008 (UTC)

My maps like this one : http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/8a/ClassicalBalkans1849.jpg the work of Classical Balkans: from Map from "rothers Publishers, New York, 1849A Classical Atlas to Illustrate Ancient Geography, Alexander G. Findlay, Harper and B ros. NY 1849, it gets deleted just for some childesh propaganda.I do not vandalize nor I have been edited in Greek articles, even if I had the best references so I can void editwar.Every work that I have done it has been attacked by Megistias (and the socpuppet Tsourkpk).Thank you.--Taulant23 (talk) 00:28, 20 January 2008 (UTC)

I am nobody's "socpuppet" (sic). Don't dig yourself deeper than you already have. --Tsourkpk (talk) 01:02, 20 January 2008 (UTC)

The finley map has been uploaded by user Karmosin 3 years ago and not by you Taulant.This is meMegistiasOlviosThat site is mine and the maps are mine and sourced.Taulant i had hopes you would change your behavior but i see its not gonna happen.[3] Thomas Lessman-World History Site.Thomas has maps on Wiki and he puts them in his site too.Get it Taulant?How about an apology?Since you haven't apologized when you wrote i have [4]Shit in my head and that i am a Malakas(that means asshole,jerk see babelfish on both one is in Greek the other Greek with English characters).Megistias (talk) 03:47, 20 January 2008 (UTC)

Ok, time's up. The conversation is unreadable. I have full trust in Megistias's uploads status (the timestamps make that easy), and the least I can say is that I don't have the same trust in yours, Taulant23. And EVEN IF Megistias had made a mistake in uploading the content, that does NOT make your content more acceptable. You still haven't brought ANY proof that you are the copyright holder of the pictures you uploaded, and I am more and more convinced that deleting all your uploads where we are not 100% sure would be what's best for the project. -- lucasbfr ^talk 16:00, 21 January 2008 (UTC)

The unconstructiveness of things...

Hi there Lucas, this is VASCO from Portugal,

About my edits to NABIL BAHA, which you reverted, i say that everything is OK now, i just wanted to make some adjustments as to the exact dates in which he played in which team, no unconstructive feeling there, i presume.

As to the best vandalism on a talkpage, you are 100% right man, can't compete with that piece of horse manure, did not even have the guts to sign. Oh well, what are you gonna do?

TAKE CARE, SAFE EDITING VASCO AMARAL - --217.129.67.28 (talk) 22:05, 21 January 2008 (UTC)

Another legal threat

User:Electra10 has made another legal threat, Gwen Gale (talk) 16:52, 22 January 2008 (UTC)

Thanks for the notice. I left him a message on his talk page. -- lucasbfr ^talk 17:29, 22 January 2008 (UTC)

Thanks

Thank you for blocking this guy. Cheers. 74.133.9.95 (talk) 22:07, 22 January 2008 (UTC)

No probs ;) -- lucasbfr ^talk 22:12, 22 January 2008 (UTC)

Heh "probs" So very 1997 of you :p 74.133.9.95 (talk) 22:39, 22 January 2008 (UTC)

I don't go out without my Cane ;) -- lucasbfr ^talk 23:08, 22 January 2008 (UTC)

Thermal Wind

Hi. I rewrote the Thermal Wind article. The old article was a stub, and a bad one at that. It was incoherent, factually incorrect at times and lacked visuals. I made new visuals, took the existing material and rewrote it so that it reads well and is accurate. I forgot to log in before editing the article, you can view the original (with the history of revisions) on my userpage at nedtheprotist.

72.242.44.14 (talk) 21:40, 23 January 2008 (UTC)

Thank you

Thank you for helping out on the page. Sorry again for not signing in originally. Nedtheprotist (talk) 21:49, 23 January 2008 (UTC)

The Dark Knight Film

Ok I'm kinda new to editing pages so bear with me if i do some thing thats not particularly status quo. I apoligize in advance.--Bdondaunique1 (talk) 03:59, 24 January 2008 (UTC)

Replied on this user's talk page - 09:00, 24 January 2008 (UTC)

Disputed fair use rationale for Image:Skype logo.png

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If it is determined that the image does not qualify under fair use, it will be deleted within a couple of days according to our criteria for speedy deletion. If you have any questions please ask them at the media copyright questions page. Thank you.BetacommandBot (talk) 05:33, 24 January 2008 (UTC)

Deleted (orphaned), you grumpy bot! ;) -- lucasbfr ^talk 09:05, 24 January 2008 (UTC)

Since

Since you are an admin who will provide a copy of deleted articles, could you please put a copy of User talk:202.76.162.34/Archive on my user page? 124.181.180.11 (talk) 23:47, 24 January 2008 (UTC)

No, per the DRV you opened. -- lucasbfr ^talk 23:59, 24 January 2008 (UTC)

Wikipedia Weekly Episode 40

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Photo of Speaking Tube

You should be more careful about alleging vandalism. In this case, Wikipedia was using, without authorization, an image that belongs to me. You owe me an apology. I have spent a great deal of time and money building the Early Office Museum web site from which this image was taken. It is possible, of course, that the original unauthorized download was made by someone different from the person who uploaded it to Wikipedia. I am looking into that.

Curator Early Office Museum www.officemuseum.com —Preceding unsigned comment added by 164.62.7.74 (talk) 23:08, 25 January 2008 (UTC)

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Huggle etc

You are, of course, quite right. Thank you. Sam Korn ^(smoddy) 23:41, 25 January 2008 (UTC)

WTF

I'll thank you to restore my comments that you deleted here. --Pete (talk) 14:09, 28 January 2008 (UTC)

WTF indeed, that was unintentional of course. Please accept my deepest apologies, I have no idea on what happened and why I didn't receive an edit conflict message... -- lucasbfr ^talk 14:17, 28 January 2008 (UTC)

Vandal

The user you blocked for 24 hours seems to be threatening the admin Addhoc. this user's ip adress is 216.56.60.66 and i also noticed that he threathend the administrator before. Evidence : "1" "2" "3" "4" and he wrote this odd thing on somone's userpage "5"

--DurzaTwink^TALK (talk) 03:33, 29 January 2008 (UTC)

Here we go, 3 more months. Thanks a lot for the notice. -- lucasbfr ^talk 07:29, 29 January 2008 (UTC)