User talk:Malo/Archive14

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This archive page covers approximately the dates between 8 November 2007 and 31 December 2008:

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Thank you. -- malo (tlk) (cntrbtns) 06:03, 2 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]

31 hours block

I think you were expecting me to post here. 31 hours, after dedicated hits like that, and aimed at me? I thought violations of WP:NPA would merit more than that. --LeyteWolfer 04:09, 15 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I'm afraid I wasn't expecting you. I don't view this vandal as attacking you personally. It seems to me to be just another college kid that vandalized everything as being "gay" indiscriminately. I think they just attacked you because of the warning you left on their talk page. And actually this is the first block for this IP, so the template you've added for being a repeated vandal really doesn't apply, at least not yet. I stand by my block, and I think it's fair. If that IP repeats, or another similar IP repeats in the near future, stronger blocks would be more appropriate. -- malo (tlk) (cntrbtns) 04:29, 15 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

You may be right. For some reason, I thought it was a second block. Too much patrolling for one night. Maybe I should take 31 hours off. :-S --LeyteWolfer 04:33, 15 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Don't worry about it. Try not to let vandals get to you. Thanks for all your counter-vandalism efforts. They are appreciated. -- malo (tlk) (cntrbtns) 04:37, 15 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

USS Benson fate

I'm no author or expert, but just finished watching the Military Channel on TV and a story about a deep dive to the wreck identified as the USS Benson. Just thought you might be interested and know whom to contact to verify this. Sincerely, Don Nickell —Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.182.137.251 (talk • contribs) 14:27, 17 November 2007

I don't know of the program of which you speak, however I don't think this could be the USS Benson (DD-421). It was transferred to Taiwan in 1954, and in 1974 it was sold, and presumably scrapped. It is possible that you're referring to one of the Benson class destroyers instead? And if so which one? -- malo (tlk) (cntrbtns) 18:34, 17 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Where to report spammer?

Sorry, I don't know where to report this (relative newbie.) There's a newish account that seems to be created solely to push his/her armor. User:Epoque001 Does this go on Wikipedia:Administrator intervention against vandalism or somewhere else? Thanks! Jackollie (talk) 04:27, 19 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Welcome Jackollie, yes you had it right to post to WP:AIV. Also I think you did well to revert this user's first edit and give them a warning, however I think the warning under the template Template:spam1 might have been more appropriate. I have already deleted the article they created and placed an advertising warning on this user's talk page. Thanks for bringing this to my attention. If you post these sort of things to WP:AIV, typically they get resolved faster as the first available admin can handle them. Thanks again -- malo (tlk) (cntrbtns) 04:35, 19 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Attack

May I inform you that this User:Badgersaresexy is posting messages against you on articles.

He is posting this:

“

ATTENTION !! This is an important notice !!

HAVE YOU EVER BEEN BLOCKED ON WIKIPEDIA FOR ABSOULTELY NO REASON ? WELL IF SO ITS PROBABLY DOWN TO THIS GUY "MALO" , COPY AND PASTE THIS TO EVERY WIKIPEDIA PAGE , TOGETHER WE CAN GET RID OF HIM HE HAS TO GO. YOU MAY THINK YOU WILL JUST BLOCK OUR IP BUT WE WILL BE SCRAMBLING IT IF YOU TRY THIS. IT IS SIMPLE REALLY WE WILL STOP WHEN MALO GOES ITS THAT SIMPLE.

IF YOU WANT TO CONTACT THIS PERSON OR SENT HIM "ABUSE" HERE IS THE URL: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/user_talk:malo

”

Please respond to this immediately.

Examples of pages he has "vadalised" with these statements are the newly featured 7 World Trade Center, Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (2007 film) (I've reverted this already) and Wikipedia:WikiProject Ships.

Perhaps by the time you read this he has already attacked you and vandalised articles more.

Again I advise to you to respond to this immediately.

Thank you. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Felipe Aira (talk • contribs) 09:23, 21 November 2007

User blocked. KnowledgeOfSelf | talk 09:27, 21 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Barnstar

		The Excellent Userpage Award
		Well done , great page Mr.whiskers (talk) 19:18, 21 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

DRV notice

An editor has asked for a deletion review of Patrick A. Reid. Since you closed the deletion discussion for this article or speedy-deleted it, you might want to participate in the deletion review. Jreferee t/c 20:15, 21 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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Strange edits by Smackbot

I just reverted a couple of edits by Smackbot, where it was messing up subtitles by replacing 'Operations==' with 'operations'. See diffs here and here. Could you please work out what the glitch is here, and try to fix it? Thanks in advance. Terraxos 20:35, 3 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I too have just noticed this error in a bunch of US Navy ship articles such as [1]. I've been trying to cleanup these articles myself, however it seems I might be doing so for a while. Would it be possible to get SmackBot to correct this problem? -- malo (tlk) (cntrbtns) 21:50, 3 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Yes of course. Rich Farmbrough, 22:29 3 December 2007 (GMT).

Now running. Rich Farmbrough, 09:42 4 December 2007 (GMT).

All done. Rich Farmbrough, 18:47 5 December 2007 (GMT).

Please permanently block this user

The user with this name: 24.61.178.97 has continued to make inappropriate edits to wikipedia and he has been blocked temporarily around 4 or 5 times since November. I was wondering if it's about time to permanently block him from editing. Thanks. Chrismaster1 20:04, 13 December 2007

We have a policy regarding the blocking of disruptive users, which you can see at Wikipedia:Blocking policy. So permanently blocking this IP address (24.61.178.97 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · filter log · WHOIS · RDNS · RBLs · http · block user · block log) isn't permitted under these circumstances. However, I will keep an eye on this user as continued abuse warrants longer and longer blocks. Thanks for your concern. -- malo (tlk) (cntrbtns) 01:41, 14 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks alot! SOrry it took me so long to thank you for that. So far, he hasnt been making any edits according to the edit log but I think he might be using another IP address to get around the admins. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Chrismaster1 (talk • contribs) 03:40, 11 July 2008

Notability of Paul Cless

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Nitpicking Ninny Says Hello

"Little known fact was that Ernest Hemingway traveled on this journey with Teddy at age 10. Many metaphors in Ernest's books reflect on these events."

You're probably right, but please try to find a reliable source. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Jerome709 (talk • contribs) 05:31, 20 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

What? -- malo (tlk) (cntrbtns) 22:28, 20 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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The Military history WikiProject Newsletter — Issue XXII (December 2007)

The Military history WikiProject Newsletter
Issue XXII (December 2007)

Project news

The Intelligence task force has been created.
The contest department has completed its ninth month of competition. The top scorer this month is Blnguyen, with 22 points, followed by Dreamafter, with 8 points, and Redmarkviolinist, with 6 points. Blnguyen also remains the overall leader, with 162 points in total. All project members are encouraged to submit the articles they're working on as entries.
Help with converting deprecated infoboxes is needed; any assistance is welcome!
{{WPMILHIST}} now supports an explicit tag (class=DAB) for marking disambiguation pages.

Articles of note

New featured articles:

New A-Class articles:

Current proposals and discussions

A discussion about minimizing terminological ambiguity has begun.

Awards and honors

Blnguyen has been awarded the WikiChevrons with Oak Leaves in recognition of his efforts in improving the quality of articles related to Vietnamese military history, including the creation of numerous A-Class articles.
Woodym555 has been awarded the WikiChevrons with Oak Leaves in recognition of his outstanding work on topics related to the Victoria Cross, notably including the creation of featured articles, featured lists, and a featured topic.
For their outstanding efforts as part of Tag & Assess 2007, Bedford, TomStar81, and Parsival74 have been awarded the gold, silver, and bronze Wikis, respectively.

Tag & Assess 2007

Tag & Assess 2007 is now officially over, with slightly under 68,000 articles processed. The top twenty scores are as follows:

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14. Sniperz11 — 1100

15. Burzmali — 1000

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15. Raoulduke471000

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Request to Help out User 99.251.0.84

Hi Malo, I tried to explain to ip user 99.251.0.84 (talk page here: [2])that the reason his information about Bohemian Grove, in relation to the Alex Albrecht page, was not important was because of WP:NOT. I do not know if I was particularly good at explaining it though. Since you were involved with the Alex page and seem more experienced than I could you please explain it to him or her better than I have. I would be very grateful if you did. Cpuwhiz11 (talk) 23:21, 21 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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Link fix request

Sorry to disturb you.but a reference link need to be fixed in article Sikhism. The ref. no. was 30. It got deleted due to edit-war. I can't fix, as i will be blocked. Kindly oblige by fixing the ref. link , which was no. 30, in political advancement, regarding sikh movement from west punjab.thanksAjjay (talk) 21:29, 16 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Milhist coordinators election has started

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Out Of Time video

Hi!

Why did you remove the reference to the Out Of Time video from the page on the USS Abraham Lincoln? Thanks for explaining. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 80.137.113.150 (talk) 17:57, 1 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I've responded on the article talk page. -- malo (tlk) (cntrbtns) 19:25, 1 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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Re:Talk:USS Mannert L. Abele (DD-733)

Hi, I was updating this articles talk page and noticed a message to you that you might want to look at. I'm not trying to stir the pot, but thought you should know.Shinerunner (talk) 14:12, 20 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for letting me know, but I don't feel as if I have to respond to the message on the talk page. And if someone has issue with something I've done or said, then allow them to bring it to my talk page, and not an article talk page I once commented on 2 years ago. -- malo (tlk) (cntrbtns) 16:21, 20 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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Priestess

You wisely reinstated the redirect of Priestess to Priest as there already was an article on the hard rock band. However, if there isn't enough material to make an article on female religious figures of this sort, I would like your thoughts on finding a more meaningful redirect. Priest is about Abrahamic religious leaders, and no priestesses that I'm aware of belong to any of those faiths. Wicca would be slightly better in that it's at least in the ballpark, but it's also a bad choice. I might turn to the Neopagan Wikiproject for an opinion, but I wanted to get yours since you redirected the page last.--otherlleft (talk) 00:23, 10 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I've responded to your post on Talk:Priestess. Thanks -- malo (tlk) (cntrbtns) 12:34, 10 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

AfD nomination of Perfect rhyme

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