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Caersws

Thanks. Martinevans123 (talk) 21:08, 19 November 2012 (UTC)

You're welcome! Reaper Eternal (talk) 03:43, 20 November 2012 (UTC)

Note

  • "Wasn't he the one strongly opposed to FAs?"

I'm not opposed to FAs. For further info, please feel free to check out User talk:Rschen7754. - jc37 22:43, 19 November 2012 (UTC)

Hmm, you must not be the user I was thinking of. I thought you had posted somewhere that you wanted to shut down the FA process entirely.... I was looking for the link to that post because I wasn't certain if it was you, and I wanted to be certain before opposing your candidacy. Unfortunately, with all the other excellent candidates running, I am unlikely to support you because there are a limited number of seats. (See the introduction to my guide for more information on why.) Maybe in another election I can support you. Cheers! Reaper Eternal (talk) 16:12, 20 November 2012 (UTC)

My User page

Are you really saying that it was " Extremely offensive material may be removed on sight by any editor." I find what you did to my user page extremely rude. You could have said something on my talk page. Rotten regard Softnow 03:07, 20 November 2012 (UTC)

Yes, I do call it disruptive. Reaper Eternal (talk) 03:42, 20 November 2012 (UTC)
Well it was never my intention to do something that could be seen as disruptive. All potentially disruptive images are gone and wont be returning. Rotten regard Softnow 17:22, 20 November 2012 (UTC)
Thanks! Reaper Eternal (talk) 17:27, 20 November 2012 (UTC)

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Blocked user Findblogging

Do you think CU is needed for User:World cup 35, their apparent Duck? See Israel-Turkey relations please. Thanks--E4024 (talk) 16:00, 20 November 2012 (UTC)

Sorry to disturb you, I hurried a minute... --E4024 (talk) 16:02, 20 November 2012 (UTC)
User:Seric2, User:Car 8025, User:Ghuzz, User:TremoloKid all travellers of the same road... --E4024 (talk) 23:32, 24 November 2012 (UTC)
I don't think these latest four are sockpuppets, with the possible exception of Car8025 (talk · contribs), but even there I don't see enough evidence for a block. Seric2 (talk · contribs) especially is unlikely to be related, as he is a long-term contributor. Reaper Eternal (talk) 01:06, 25 November 2012 (UTC)
Whose sock do you think Car 8025 could be? I believe of the long-term contributor Seric2. (I am prepared to apologize publicly if it is not so.) User:23x2 is another long-term user but uses several sock puppets. You revert their edits, socks come to help. While you revert 2 times they revert 3 times, one sock each. (Another one waiting at the bench) Is there a rule forgiving sock puppetry by long-term users? BTW I discovered Findblogging and now CUs revealed some 5-6 socks. All the best and thanks for your support. --E4024 (talk) 15:15, 25 November 2012 (UTC)
A new puppet of Findblogging is disrupting the article baklava with a series of reverts; if not stopped will continue breaching the 3rr rule... Thanks. --E4024 (talk) 17:35, 26 November 2012 (UTC)
I don't see anything tying him to Findblogging. Please either present your evidence at WP:SPI or stop making unfounded sock accusations. Thanks. Reaper Eternal (talk) 17:41, 26 November 2012 (UTC)

Mentoring

I'd like to study CSD deletions on my mentoring page.—cyberpower ChatOnline 00:01, 25 November 2012 (UTC)

What do you feel you do not understand...? Reaper Eternal (talk) 17:42, 26 November 2012 (UTC)
Its a difficult concept for me to grasp. I bombed that section on Worm's mentoring page.—cyberpower ChatOffline 19:20, 26 November 2012 (UTC)
Thank you so much for being spot-on with that one. I didn't think anyone would notice. DesuBoi (talk) 00:06, 25 November 2012 (UTC)
Please try to contribute more constructively. Thanks. Reaper Eternal (talk) 13:46, 26 November 2012 (UTC)

A beer for you!

Thanks for protecting my userpage. I was getting sick of it being vandalized. I also appreciate the creation protection of my namesake; it was always being created as an attack page. Lugia2453 (talk) 00:17, 25 November 2012 (UTC)
You're welcome! Reaper Eternal (talk) 13:35, 26 November 2012 (UTC)

SPI Dedication Award

DeltaQuad's SPI Award
Given to members of the community who take SPI seriously and show constant dedication and uphold clerk and community standards. This medal represents the honour to be serving with you on this team. -- DQ (ʞlɐʇ)

I've seen you put a lot of effort in as a clerk over the past few months, and want to thank you for your contributions, especially as I have seen them recently. -- DQ (ʞlɐʇ) 00:41, 25 November 2012 (UTC)

Thanks! Reaper Eternal (talk) 13:35, 26 November 2012 (UTC)

Congratulations, a very deserved award... --E4024 (talk) 22:48, 25 November 2012 (UTC)

15:27, 16 November 2012 Reaper Eternal (talk | contribs) deleted page File:Oli Ahmad under attack.jpg (F9: Media file copyright violation without fair use or credible claim of permission. http://news.priyo.com/politics/2011/11/24/al-men-attack-ldp-chief-oli-ah-43140.html)

Those pictures were taken by me with my own digital camera. I am the public relations officer of Dr. Oli Ahmad Bir Bikram, on whom the article is written and the pictures are of him. Copies of pictures taken by me are available with LDP (Liberal Democratic Party - Bangladesh) Office & can be accessed freely by any one interested. I have not reserved copyright of it. I'm guessing the author of the article you have sited probably got that picture from there or any other source who collected the copies. Since i took them pictures myself i am confused as to how i have infringed copyright by uploading them. please clarify & be so kind as to restore the upload. Deshpremi313 (talk) 21:37, 25 November 2012 (UTC)

Hello! I deleted the image because it was identical with the one shown here, and there is a copyright claim on the bottom of that webpage ("Copyright © 2012 Priyo"), which made it appear that your upload was violating copyright. If you indeed own the copyright to the pictures, and you wish to donate them under a free license to Wikipedia, you should see Wikipedia:Donating copyrighted materials for instructions on how to proceed. The pertinent section is "Granting us permission to copy material already online". Please understand that this is to protect you against impersonation and violations of your copyright rather than to prevent you from uploading images. I hope this helps! Reaper Eternal (talk) 13:45, 26 November 2012 (UTC)

Revert

Thanks for reverting the vandalism/personal attack on my talk page. It is greatly appreciated :). -- Luke (Talk) 01:11, 26 November 2012 (UTC)

You're welcome! Reaper Eternal (talk) 13:35, 26 November 2012 (UTC)

A few questions

Hey Reaper Eternal! I have a few questions. What do you think of my chances of being granted reviewer rights would be now (contribs)? Also, do you go on IRC? If you do, what's your nick? Thanks! --Plasma (Talk) 22:22, 26 November 2012 (UTC)

As to the first, I'm uncertain. It depends on the admin. Personally, I'd say wait a couple hundred more edits.
As to the second, yes, I idle as ReaperEternal on freenode. Reaper Eternal (talk) 22:27, 26 November 2012 (UTC)
Thank you! --Plasma (Talk) 22:27, 26 November 2012 (UTC)

This is direct tread without substantial reason

Dear Sir your behavior is scandalous. Be little more polite and reasonable. Do you think you are a God? Just stay away from me OK? You impolite attitude can result contraction? You miss the point administrator has a duty. Stay from me away. You action is anyway too late and without ground. Be polite!--Burham (talk) 02:37, 27 November 2012 (UTC)

Really? Normally editors get blocked for logging out to violate 3RR. The only reason I didn't block you was because it occurred several days prior. Reaper Eternal (talk) 03:50, 27 November 2012 (UTC)
And now you're blocked directly for being a sockpuppet of Serafin (talk · contribs) yourself. Reaper Eternal (talk) 18:55, 27 November 2012 (UTC)

Dear Sir, This time you REALY step out of reasonable attitude. Because you are acting so unbalanced I will not use word ASK. Just withdraw the block and will be OK. If not I promise you I will do all possible to BLOCK you. You know, an administrator can be block too, and only the two yours actions are enough to show you unreasonable aggressiveness. Nobody prevent you to act politely step by step and restrict a behavior of an editor. This is obvious that some people are too nervous and act emotionally - administrators are to teach them reasonable and peaceful behavior. However, you are acting in opposite to this mission. YOU JUST JUMP ON MY BACK; it cannot be accepted by any reasonable thinking person. Yours truly, BURHAM — Preceding unsigned comment added by 216.16.241.130 (talk) 22:25, 27 November 2012 (UTC)

Vice President / Speaker pro tempore of the House of Representatives of Puerto Rico

Hey, Vice President of the House of Representatives of Puerto Rico should have been moved to Speaker pro tempore of the House of Representatives of Puerto Rico but you accidentally moved it to Speaker of the House of Representatives of Puerto Rico.

Hope this clarifies things a bit.

—Ahnoneemoos (talk) 14:21, 27 November 2012 (UTC)

Oops! I think I've fixed it now. Thanks! Reaper Eternal (talk) 14:27, 27 November 2012 (UTC)

Mildly confused

Curious, why delete Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Shalom Yechiel because you're "Merging cases" without restoring it later? Did you simply forget to restore it, or do you think it best if the page remain deleted? I only learned this because of Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Chutznik, which was tagged for G8 speedy as a redirect to /Shalom Yechiel. Nyttend (talk) 04:20, 28 November 2012 (UTC)

The case to be merged is Wikipedia:Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Shalom Yechiel. Peter James (talk) 11:08, 28 November 2012 (UTC)
I've fixed it. I don't know how I typed the "Wikipedia:" twice.... Reaper Eternal (talk) 13:08, 28 November 2012 (UTC)

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My socks

i've discontinued use of most accounts, since they were becoming a headache in trying to retreive the different sources on different talkpages. I will agree to have them blocked and use this one as my main account.Rajmaan (talk) 20:48, 29 November 2012 (UTC)

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Troll block

With reference to this, I considered doing the same, but decided to accept the decision of the first admin to get there, confident that within a short time of the block expiring the user would use up his rope and give more than enough justification for an indef. Same result in the end. JamesBWatson (talk) 17:38, 29 November 2012 (UTC)

Perhaps I should have waited, but threats of abusing "many other accounts" indicate that the user would, as you mention above, simply return to trolling after the short block expired. As an aside, I have requested that a checkuser find these alternate accounts. Reaper Eternal (talk) 17:52, 29 November 2012 (UTC)
My guess is that the remark about "many other accounts" was a bluff, in fact itself a piece of trolling. However, I certainly agree it's worth checking, just in case it was true. JamesBWatson (talk) 20:10, 29 November 2012 (UTC)
Well, the subsequent talk page edits have confirmed that an indefinite block was right, as I always thought. JamesBWatson (talk) 09:14, 30 November 2012 (UTC)

FYI

Morning, I noticed that you blocked Burham as a sockpuppet. He/she may be back using the IP 206.177.43.75 (see edits on Silesia). Rsloch (talk) 09:41, 30 November 2012 (UTC)

That didn't take long after the semiprotection expired. Re-protected. Reaper Eternal (talk) 13:35, 30 November 2012 (UTC)

Llanwrtyd Wells

After your recent intervention at Caersws, I wonder could I ask you to possibly have a look over at Llanwrtyd Wells? Many thanks for your time. Martinevans123 (talk)

I really don't see a need for page protection yet. The edit isn't vandalism or a BLP violation, although it is definitely poorly sourced. I'd try discussing WP:RS with the user first. Reaper Eternal (talk) 19:35, 1 December 2012 (UTC)
Thanks for your advice. Yes, there are some sourcing issues. My main gripe is simply repetition, which comes across as a commercial bias. I have invited the ip editor(s) to discuss. Regards. Martinevans123 (talk) 19:46, 1 December 2012 (UTC)

edit summaries

Minor thing: when you revert someone else's AfD entry, as you did here, it would help the rest of us if you left an edit summary. Otherwise, some schmuck like me comes along, sees someone's input reverted, and then either reverts your revert automatically because there's no argument given for the revert, or has to spend the time figuring out what you already know. --Nat Gertler (talk) 20:38, 2 December 2012 (UTC)

Okay, I'll do so in the future. (In this case, it was because block-evading sockpuppets may not vote in AFDs.) Good luck! Reaper Eternal (talk) 21:02, 2 December 2012 (UTC)
Oh, the revert was perfectly fine (which actually makes things more difficult because then, having found that, I do no editing, which leaves no further edit summary, which means the next similar schumuck who comes along ends up wasting her time with the research. At this rate, Wikipedia will never be done!) --Nat Gertler (talk) 21:08, 2 December 2012 (UTC)

Bitcoin Foundation

I see you protected the article, and DGG contested a previous prod. However, while there are a lot of hits for the organization, they are all primarily stories from the same day about the same thing on different sites (bloggers ripping off Forbes' article, mostly), and nothing since. I'd AfD it, but there's so much socking involved that I'm sure the article would be recreated several times before we could salt it, although the idea of a protected redirect might not be a bad idea. Thoughts? MSJapan (talk) 07:15, 3 December 2012 (UTC)

I'd say go ahead and AFD it. If sockpuppet recreates it, it can be speedily deleted via CSD G4 and CSD G5. I may have to protect the AFD page depending on how much sockpuppetry goes on in it. Good luck! Reaper Eternal (talk) 13:36, 3 December 2012 (UTC)

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BM SPI

The unrelated stuff at Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Bormalagurski is about raw sockpuppetry, and the allegation is mainly a violation of WP:MEAT. We know that the Serbian Youth League has members who live in various parts of Canada. I thought it would be clear enough, but I guess not. Can you please reassess the case with that in mind? --Joy [shallot] (talk) 09:00, 3 December 2012 (UTC)

Alright, I've re-reviewed the case. As before, I do not believe that these users are the same based on behavior (hence no violation of WP:SOCK). Furthermore, these editors did not arrive on Wikipedia solely to support one other editor (hence no violation of WP:MEAT). That said, however, they all obviously have a strongly pro-Serbian POV, and some of them may be tag-teaming to push their POV. Reaper Eternal (talk) 13:47, 3 December 2012 (UTC)
So, per tag team documentation, would you support a block on Bolonium and UrbanVillager under WP:ARBMAC? --Joy [shallot] (talk) 18:49, 3 December 2012 (UTC)
That's for you to decide or raise at WP:ANI. All I did at SPI was attempt to determine if there were any violations of WP:SOCK; I did not investigate the actual acceptability of their edits. Good luck! Reaper Eternal (talk) 18:57, 3 December 2012 (UTC)
What exactly did I do wrong to deserve a block? And why are you two discussing this without notifying me? Thanks, --UrbanVillager (talk) 20:19, 3 December 2012 (UTC)
See above. As I mentioned in my previous reply, all I did was check the SPI to determine whether sockpuppetry or meatpuppetry had occurred. I then closed the case since I did not find sufficient evidence to block you on that basis. Whether or not Joy blocks you under WP:ARBMAC or complains about you on WP:ANI is his decision, not mine. Reaper Eternal (talk) 20:33, 3 December 2012 (UTC)
You didn't answer my question. Why are you two discussing this without notifying me? And Joy, why do you contact every administrator who closes this case and ask them to reconsider? I've been accused of being Boris Malagurski, being on his payroll, being his colleague, being his sockpuppet, being his meatpuppet, and after no evidence was found for any of that (since none of it is true), I'll get blocked because someone thinks I'm pro-Serbian? Reaper, I take that as a personal attack, I don't see myself as pro-Serbian, I came here to add information that can be backed up with reliable references. Take a look at my contribution to the articles on Wikipedia, they're evidence enough about my deep respect for Wikipedia guidelines. It seems my biggest sin was opposing those who wanted to add blogs and fishy websites as references, just because they dislike Malagurski and his work, which they themselves confess. I'm tired of this and I feel they won't give up until they think of a way to get rid of me. If someone want's to block me, go for it. I've had enough of this anyways. That's the thanks I get for actually editing articles, unlike all those who are attacking me, who showed up just to start fights and forum discussions on the topic. If this is the true Wikipedia, thank you very much. Regards, --UrbanVillager (talk) 01:03, 4 December 2012 (UTC)
There is no requirement for me to notify you that someone has made a comment about you on my talkpage, since this isn't a noticeboard for an administrative discussion. Furthermore, nobody is going to block you for being pro-Serbian (having a POV is not a violation of policy). I have not accused you of being a colleague, sockpuppet, meatpuppet, etc—all I said was that some users might be tag-teaming their edits. If you have violated WP:ARBMAC somewhere and get blocked for it, that's your affair. If Joy makes a bad block, that's his problem to deal with. Reaper Eternal (talk) 01:42, 4 December 2012 (UTC)

Reaper, I trust you see now how we have a problem. *sigh* --Joy [shallot] (talk) 10:27, 4 December 2012 (UTC)

Permit me also to verify one more thing explicitly: did you see the timeline at the previous SPI discussion that I wrote with the timestamp "07:37, 24 August 2012 (UTC)"? There's other evidence in the old discussion that was closed on procedural grounds. With the evidence presented by PRODUCER in the last report, topped off by the "List of all of UrbanVillager's edits in article-space with context added by bobrayner", where bobrayner linked every single edit by the UrbanVillager account to Boris Malagurski i.e. User:Bormalagurski and his other clones, where is the disconnect? How does that not constitute arriving on Wikipedia solely to support one other editor, Bormalagurski? --Joy [shallot] (talk) 10:45, 4 December 2012 (UTC)

Yes, I did. And as AGK (talk · contribs) mentioned before me, I don't see sufficient evidence for a block. Allow me to quote from WP:MEAT: "A new user who engages in the same behavior as another user in the same context, and who appears to be editing Wikipedia solely for that purpose, may be subject to the remedies applied to the user whose behavior they are joining" (emphasis mine). UrbanVillager has been here for nearly as long as I have, and his behavior is not essentially identical to Boris's. Reaper Eternal (talk) 13:32, 4 December 2012 (UTC)
Well that's true if you ignore the entire history. At the time of the account creation, it was a new account. You don't think that this peculiar timeline and pattern of edits is suspicious? I think it's a classic case of gaming the system, WP:SCRUTINY/WP:CLEANSTART. --Joy [shallot] (talk) 14:29, 4 December 2012 (UTC)
In any case, I don't mean to be pestering you, we can simply agree to disagree. I was just hoping to avoid the situation where I come back in another few years time and the same problem persists as it has since 2006. --Joy [shallot] (talk) 14:35, 4 December 2012 (UTC)
So because I'm interested in the topic of Malagurski and his films, I must be Malagurski himself, or associated with him? Joy, are you aware of what you're claiming here? Please, everyone, leave me alone and let me make constructive edits on Wikipedia. Or block me if I've done anything wrong. I try my best to promote and respect the rules of Wikipedia, I'm not here to promote any POV, I only add referenced information. --UrbanVillager (talk) 19:00, 4 December 2012 (UTC)

Bag and tag?

Can you do a quick bag and tag on those IPs at the latest SPI for Howard, as it just screams "QUACK!"? MSJapan (talk) 01:03, 4 December 2012 (UTC)

n/m, I see you've done so. MSJapan (talk) 01:04, 4 December 2012 (UTC)
No worries. Reaper Eternal (talk) 02:59, 4 December 2012 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

The Barnstar of Diligence
Your hard work at WP:SPI deserves recognition. You've huffed, and puffed and bleeeeew that backlog down! — Coren (talk) 02:57, 4 December 2012 (UTC)
Thanks! Reaper Eternal (talk) 02:58, 4 December 2012 (UTC)
I don't think I've ever seen "no open cases" before!
03:00, 4 December 2012‎ Amalthea (bot) (talk | contribs | block)‎ . . (1,588 bytes) (+13)‎ . . (Update SPI case overview (no open cases)
👍 Like ​—DoRD (talk)​ 13:17, 4 December 2012 (UTC)
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Sockpuppet investigation: Rotsmasher

Hi, I'm writing in regards to your decision at Wikipedia:Sockpuppet_investigations/Rotsmasher/Archive. I was advised by an editor to post directly to your talkpage about this. I'm not clear on how can you say that Rotmsmasher and Golfbravoeacho are very different given the examples that I have shown within the case? If you look at the initial case I provided, there are numerous links of exactly how these users are similar. If you look at the history of the account, there are obvious similarities. One further point - given Rotsmashers long-standing edit warring of this thread and Golfbravoecho's recent edits, do you seriously believe that Rotsmasher has just walked away from this and is no longer editing the page? Given that there are three COI editors with myself being one, a gripe site owner with COI being identified as the second and Golfbravoecho is the only remaining non-neutral editor. I think it is clear from the page history that Rotsmasher would not just leave this article. Hardlygone (talk) 10:12, 5 December 2012 (UTC)

A false premise that there is a COI and also that there are only three historically active users. In addition I am still wondering about how the company know my supposed identity. --Golfbravoecho (talk) 12:19, 5 December 2012 (UTC)
Well, for starters, Rotsmasher and his socks commonly attempted to sign their edit summaries with four tildes. Golfbravoecho does not. Rotsmasher used edit summaries, but Golfbravoecho does not. Rotsmasher's posts were commonly unintelligible, contained excess line breaks, or were otherwise confusing. Golfbravoecho's posts generally make sense. So unless Rotsmasher has recently obtained a better command of the English language, I don't think Golfbravoecho is he. If he has a conflict of interest with respect to Optical Express, that is a subject for the conflict of interest noticeboard, not for a sockpuppet investigation. Thanks. Reaper Eternal (talk) 13:16, 5 December 2012 (UTC)
Thanks for your reply. Hardlygone (talk) 15:32, 5 December 2012 (UTC)

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Jazzster786

Thanks for the quick attention to the SPI. — Bdb484 (talk) 16:55, 7 December 2012 (UTC)

You're welcome! Reaper Eternal (talk) 20:47, 11 December 2012 (UTC)

Mangina

You deleted the article I submitted for creation and appeared to call it "vandalism". If so I ask that you justify labeling my efforts as "vandalism". The article was a good faith representation of the usage of the term "mangina" in the collection of hundreds of websites called the manosphere which is viewed by millions of users around the world collectively. Wikipedia talk:Articles for creation/Mangina. I'm quite certain I was neutral and represented the manospheres usage without expressing any opinion for or against usage of the term. (Deletion log); 18:51 . . Reaper Eternal (talk | contribs) deleted page Wikipedia talk:Articles for creation/Mangina ‎(G3: Vandalism) Ethicalv (talk) 01:38, 8 December 2012 (UTC)

That article was complete nonsense: "[Manginas] may discuss males with terms such as testosterone poisoning" or "Mangina can refer to men who are aligned with feminist extremists and are very unkind to the feelings and struggles facing males." It was sourced largely to uncyclopedia, urban dictionary, "dumpyourwifenow.com", and "tiredblackman.com". Please don't recreate that page. Reaper Eternal (talk) 21:30, 8 December 2012 (UTC)

If it wasn't clear that I did not make those changes to my submission you're referring to as "complete nonsense", I will tell you again now. I did not make any of those changes to the submission you're referring to. The article I submitted contained none of that text you quoted above. I defend my documentation of the term "mangina", though I accept that it may need to be expanded, and I ask that you remove the label of "vandalism" if you have attached that to either me or my post. Ethicalv (talk) 23:51, 11 December 2012 (UTC)

Please see User_talk:Reaper_Eternal#Re:_Mangina. Thanks. Viriditas (talk) 01:29, 12 December 2012 (UTC)

Corporate Group

Hi, thanks for your work on this case. I already nominated the blocked sock's article for a G5. Perhaps you missed that? Can you act on the G5 nomination, as an admin? Logical Cowboy (talk) 00:11, 9 December 2012 (UTC)

Someone else already has. I didn't really want to immediately G5 it since Cindamuse (talk · contribs) had done some work trying to clean it up. Thanks anyway. Reaper Eternal (talk) 20:46, 11 December 2012 (UTC)

Protection and IP reverts

Haha, yes, it gets complicated sometimes. I almost did the same thing earlier. Thanks, Drmies (talk) 20:38, 11 December 2012 (UTC)

Heh, oops. That was the reason for the dummy edit. :) Reaper Eternal (talk) 20:44, 11 December 2012 (UTC)

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Rollback request

I saw your name on the list of admins willing to grant rollback. May I have access please? I wish to try out Huggle. My recent history with STIKI should demonstrate that I know what constitutes vandalism, as well as the proper use of TW rollback. Thanks.  little green rosetta(talk)
central scrutinizer  02:56, 12 December 2012 (UTC)

Why don't you ask at WP:Requests for permissions? ZappaOMati 04:04, 12 December 2012 (UTC)
 Done Reaper Eternal (talk) 04:19, 12 December 2012 (UTC)

Thanks

Thank you for the help with that particularly persistent fan of mine. Widr (talk) 16:40, 12 December 2012 (UTC)

You're welcome! Reaper Eternal (talk) 18:13, 12 December 2012 (UTC)

Thanks

Thanks for protecting my userpage. That said, unless there's a policy against it, or you're worried I'm costing the project serious RCP resources, would you mind unprotecting it? My philosophy's always been that if it keeps the trolls out of mainspace, they can call me a faggot all they want till they get themselves blocked. I chuckle, stalk their contribs until an admin steps in, and add a few tallies to my vandalism userbox. I've also had a few times where I couldn't tell if an editor was vandalizing or just incompetent, and some all-caps changes to my page answered my question very easily, and led me and the blocking admins to cut them a lot less slack.

(I see no reason to lift the move-protection, though, for the record. Someone who gets stopped from moving my page will, I imagine, just vandalize it instead.) — Francophonie&Androphilie(Je vous invite à me parler) 22:51, 9 December 2012 (UTC)

On a related note, there's a well-liked IP who frequents Drmies's talk page. Pending changes, perhaps? — Francophonie&Androphilie(Je vous invite à me parler) 20:38, 11 December 2012 (UTC)
I've unprotected your userpage and semiprotected Drmies's talk page. Good luck! Reaper Eternal (talk) 20:44, 11 December 2012 (UTC)
Agh, sorry, that's what I get for speaking in cool short sentences: The above was in response to your semi-protection of Drmies page. As in, perhaps it would be better to switch to PC so IP 99 can comment? — Francophonie&Androphilie(Je vous invite à me parler) 20:57, 11 December 2012 (UTC)
Well, in the never-ending saga of poor communication and misunderstanding on my part, mind un-protecting my userpage (but not my talk page) again? While Mike certainly likes yelling at people, he hasn't resorted to userpage vandalism yet, and even if he does, I don't mind reverting him then - only asked for the talk page to be protected because it was annoying picking out the vandalism from the legitimate comments. — Francophonie&Androphilie(Je vous invite à me parler) 00:51, 13 December 2012 (UTC)

Re: Mangina

(This comment repeated above) If it wasn't clear that I did not make those changes to my submission you're referring to as "complete nonsense", I will tell you again now. I did not make any of those changes to the submission you're referring to. The article I submitted contained none of that text you quoted above. Please restore the submission so that I can see which editor vandalized it. I defend my documentation of the term "mangina", though I accept that it may need to be expanded, and I ask that you remove the label of "vandalism" if you have attached that to either me or my post. Ethicalv (talk) 23:58, 11 December 2012 (UTC)

I'm afraid that is is going to go to AN shortly, probably in the form of a topic ban. Ethicalv has not responded to concerns on his talk page and does not seem capable or willing to work with the community. Viriditas (talk) 01:28, 12 December 2012 (UTC)
Hopefully it doesn't actually need to go to AN. Reaper, as far I know you've been involved in anything this area in a non-administrative capacity. If you weren't aware, anything related to men's rights is covered by a broad article probation. Besides for Viriditas' comments on his talk page, Ethicalv was also formally notified of the probation by Hasteur, in this edit. If you agree that EthicalV's edits in this area are incredibly problematic and violations of the terms of probation that covers men's rights related issues, and you agree that you're an uninvolved administrator, please consider sanctioning him under the pre-existing probation, at least until he begins to be responsive to the concerns of others. Thanks, Kevin Gorman (talk) 03:14, 12 December 2012 (UTC)
Reaper, please be clear that these users Viriditas and Kevin Gorman have extremely strong views against men's rights and have been actively involved in disputes on these issues. I have no wish to engage either of them. I am interested in documenting a new and exponentially growing movement called the "manosphere" from a neutral perspective. I believe it is a noteworthy topic as I have found over 50 references to it in mainstream media. Rather than being a "single issue" this is a broad topic area as some parts of the manosphere support campaigning for men's rights and others are actively against it. I am a new editor and I appreciate all help in improving my submissions. I trust that as an administrator you are responsible and fair and will decline to involve yourself in this witch hunt these two users are putting together. I would also appreciate your suggestion for how these two users could be sanctioned. It seems highly damaging to the wikipedia editing process for two users who have such strong opinions in a topic area to band together with like minded editors to ban others simply for wishing to examine topics from different viewpoints. Ending I will repeat that I did not contest that the article mangina was vandalism or fail to cooperate, I simply said that it was not I who vandalized it and I wanted to see who did. Ethicalv (talk) 11:43, 12 December 2012 (UTC)
Translation: "50 references" to some guy posting 50 times on his blog from his basement. Seriously? Viriditas (talk) 12:08, 12 December 2012 (UTC)
I am an uninvolved admin, but I generally try to avoid dealing with sanctions. ANI is likely a better place for this if the POV-pushing continues. Reaper Eternal (talk) 18:16, 12 December 2012 (UTC)
Fair enough. I've pinged another admin about it, and will take it to ANI if it doesn't stop when I have the time to do so (which unfortunately might be a day or two.) Thanks, Kevin Gorman (talk) 21:36, 12 December 2012 (UTC)
My apologies, I had assumed that since you had not removed the original content that you either fully agreed with it or you were indeed the same person as the IP who had posted the material. I have restored the content and removed the original bullshit. This is not an endorsement of your content, which is still sourced only to misogynist blogs; it is because your content was not pure vandalism like the previous posting. Reaper Eternal (talk) 18:13, 12 December 2012 (UTC)
Actually, I've deleted it again. It was sourced only to pages attacking women and people who support them. Reaper Eternal (talk) 18:46, 12 December 2012 (UTC)

Any objections to renaming the article to munt?  little green rosetta(talk)
central scrutinizer  23:29, 12 December 2012 (UTC)

No problem.

From previous interactions with securepoll I was under the impression it did a count at the point of voting then allowed/disallowed. Must have been mistaken. Only in death does duty end (talk) 10:41, 13 December 2012 (UTC)

It can, but that feature was not turned on for this election because the developer was not contacted in time. Good luck! Reaper Eternal (talk) 14:58, 13 December 2012 (UTC)

RevDel, question mark

RevDel probably needed here. Thanks! Evanh2008 (talk|contribs) 14:55, 13 December 2012 (UTC)

 Done Thanks! Reaper Eternal (talk) 14:57, 13 December 2012 (UTC)

Lee Min-Hu

Thanks for protecting that page. Quick question though, how do you remove an unneeded AfD request? --Skamecrazy123 (talk) 15:16, 13 December 2012 (UTC)

I closed it, and I'm now blocking everybody who was involved in that raid. Cheers! Reaper Eternal (talk) 15:19, 13 December 2012 (UTC)
Cheers Reaper. --Skamecrazy123 (talk) 15:21, 13 December 2012 (UTC)

User talk:Derek H. SDFHSHhfDHFHDFHDFD

You guessed it. Looks like we need to have talk page access revoked. MadGuy7023 (talk) 19:41, 13 December 2012 (UTC)

I've revoked talkpage access. However, per WP:TPO, users can normally blank their talkpages. Reaper Eternal (talk) 18:45, 14 December 2012 (UTC)

Revision Deletion.

Can you please hide this revision since it is privacy related information. Forgot to put name (talk) 18:09, 14 December 2012 (UTC)

 Done Reaper Eternal (talk) 18:22, 14 December 2012 (UTC)
Thank you very much! Forgot to put name (talk) 18:57, 14 December 2012 (UTC)

Fixed position vandalism

I tries to share my custom CSS for mySkin with a friend. As he tried to use it his edit got stuck in your Fixed position vandalism filter. Is there any way to disable the filter on custom CSS pages? Cheers. — Preceding unsigned comment added by JohannesWärn (talk • contribs) 17:08, 15 December 2012 (UTC)

I already fixed that when I saw the false positive occur. :) Let me know if it happens again. Cheers! Reaper Eternal (talk) 02:24, 16 December 2012 (UTC)

Blatant Abuse

Why have you removed a reference from a sourced book, readily commercially available and a screen grab from the actual movie From Russia With Love, which proves the editing of the page was correct and then locked the page to protect your removal of these legitimate sources? Angry that the 'experts' on wikipedia that bully and threaten in order to get their way have been proved wrong? It certainly appears so. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 67.116.241.183 (talk) 20:26, 17 December 2012 (UTC)

This is blatant block evasion and you created harassment accounts. Blocked. Reaper Eternal (talk) 20:37, 17 December 2012 (UTC)

Mikey malice

Did I tag the page correctly? I had some doubts about my tagging later on. Buggie111 (talk) 13:57, 19 December 2012 (UTC)

Yes, definitely. Reaper Eternal (talk) 14:00, 19 December 2012 (UTC)

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Re: Revert of my note to Kudpung

If you look at the surrounding events that have taken place over the past two days, I think you'd be less inclined to see it as an accident. AutomaticStrikeout (T • C) 21:26, 19 December 2012 (UTC)

I rather doubt that Malleus Fatuorum (talk · contribs) would go to a random edit you made and think, "Oh! I'll just click the rollback button on this edit!" Reaper Eternal (talk) 02:05, 20 December 2012 (UTC)
I'd like to think so to. AutomaticStrikeout (T • C) 03:28, 20 December 2012 (UTC) Btw, Happy Holidays!

Talk page protection

Following the latest JarlaxleArtemis SPI, you blocked several IPs, and semi-protected Socialist state. These IPs were actually vandalising the article Talk page rather than the article itself. Could you please protect that, too. Thanks. RolandR (talk) 22:15, 20 December 2012 (UTC)

 Done Reaper Eternal (talk) 22:34, 20 December 2012 (UTC)

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My usual request

I think my user page is safe to unprotect now. Thanks. — Francophonie&Androphilie(Je vous invite à me parler) 03:35, 24 December 2012 (UTC)

It seems someone else has already gotten to it. Good luck! Reaper Eternal (talk) 14:01, 27 December 2012 (UTC)

Merry Christmas

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Thanks! Reaper Eternal (talk) 14:02, 27 December 2012 (UTC)

Merry Christmas - 2012

Christmas Greetings. Kierzek (talk) 14:43, 24 December 2012 (UTC)

Heh. Thanks anyway! Reaper Eternal (talk) 14:02, 27 December 2012 (UTC)

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Hello Reaper! Wishing you a very Happy Merry Christmas :) TheGeneralUser (talk) 12:22, 25 December 2012 (UTC)

Thanks! Reaper Eternal (talk) 14:02, 27 December 2012 (UTC)

Merry Christmas

Haven't talked since IP altercation in August or so, but...
We haven't talked since that IP incident a while back, but I'm still giving you some Christmas cookies! ZappaOMati 17:48, 25 December 2012 (UTC)
Thanks! Reaper Eternal (talk) 14:03, 27 December 2012 (UTC)

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Thanks! Reaper Eternal (talk) 14:03, 27 December 2012 (UTC)

Happy holidays!

Hey Reaper, I just wanted to wish you a great and happy holiday season and a healthy New Years. Let's make 2013 better than 2012! -- LuK3 (Talk) 15:46, 26 December 2012 (UTC)

Thanks, and good luck! Reaper Eternal (talk) 14:03, 27 December 2012 (UTC)

State of Palestine

At State of Palestine an editor made a bold change into the "Statehood for the purposes of the UN Charter" section, that I reverted and we engaged in a discussion combined with parallel edits of the live section. Unfortunately the edits seem to be non-converging, so I restored the status quo asked the other editor to first discuss and then edit, but he repeatedly pushes his changes in the live article (last). Please restore the section (not the whole article) to its status quo version so that we can discuss instead of edit-war. Japinderum (talk) 10:15, 28 December 2012 (UTC)

I'm not going to proxy reverts for you. You should consider one of the methods of dispute resolution (and discussing on the talk page is a good start). Reaper Eternal (talk) 13:23, 28 December 2012 (UTC)
I turned to you as you had protected the page. That's not a "proxy revert for me", I have repeatedly asked the editor making changes to the status quo version (that's been there for years) to discuss, but he continues to push his edits to the live version without having consensus. I'll have to revert him again now. Japinderum (talk) 06:25, 29 December 2012 (UTC)

A little problem in the Balkans

Hi,
Thanks for protecting NATO bombing of Yugoslavia. This should give us some respite from VJ-Yugo socks for a while. However, they've followed me to Serbian Army too - would you consider protecting that? Unfortunately, few other editors seem interested in that article at the moment. (And I just realised I'm close to 3RR; will take a step back). Sorry for the hassle... bobrayner (talk) 11:29, 28 December 2012 (UTC)

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