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Sock IP
Hello there. The IP 99.231.81.164 has only made four edits, all four personal attacks on me. I have no idea who it is a sock of, but it is clear that this is a sock of another user. As an SPI clerk, I am asking you to help me as to how to proceed. If this is a long term user venting through an IP, that user needs to be punished for this. Thanks. Nezzadar [SPEAK] 20:05, 25 November 2009 (UTC)
- Probably just the IP of some vandal that you reverted; a SPI report isn't worth it. Another sysop blocked it for 48 hours; that should be good enough. NW (Talk) 20:06, 25 November 2009 (UTC)
Re: RfP for Africville, Nova Scotia
I made an RfP for this article earlier today, to which you responded that the troublesome editors had been blocked. However, unless I am missing something (which is entirely possible), I do not see any indication that they have been blocked. When you have a chance, can you point me in the right direction? ---RepublicanJacobiteThe'FortyFive' 22:51, 25 November 2009 (UTC)
- I blocked the entire range[1]. Cheers, NW (Talk) 22:54, 25 November 2009 (UTC)
- Ah! Thank you for that. Checking the individual pages revealed nothing. Now I understand why. ---RepublicanJacobiteThe'FortyFive' 02:58, 26 November 2009 (UTC)
Chronic != "today"
Why bother semi-protecting an article with chronic vandalism problems for just two days? Seems like a complete waste of your time, because it accomplished absolutely nothing. - Jason A. Quest (talk) 23:31, 25 November 2009 (UTC)
- The vandalism had only really just picked up again recently; before then it was only an edit or two every day. That might be frequent vandalism, but not so frequent as to require semi-protection, especially for such a highly trafficked article. NW (Talk) 23:45, 25 November 2009 (UTC)
- The vandalism level didn't "just pick up again recently"; it's been going on like this for months. It will sometimes go a few days without being vandalized, but then another dork will come along and it gets several in an hour, then again the next morning, etc. It's a heavily-trafficked, stable article... whose primary contributors are now vandals. I don't understand why you evidently want that level of vandalism, but if you do, then why protect it at all? Doing it for two days was absurd, and two weeks is little better, because it's based on the notion that the situation will be different at the end of that time, and it obviously will not. - Jason A. Quest (talk) 00:59, 26 November 2009 (UTC)
- Hmm, you are definitely right and it was my mistake to not protect for a while. I have changed that now by extending the protection for quite a while. NW (Talk) 18:03, 27 November 2009 (UTC)
- The vandalism level didn't "just pick up again recently"; it's been going on like this for months. It will sometimes go a few days without being vandalized, but then another dork will come along and it gets several in an hour, then again the next morning, etc. It's a heavily-trafficked, stable article... whose primary contributors are now vandals. I don't understand why you evidently want that level of vandalism, but if you do, then why protect it at all? Doing it for two days was absurd, and two weeks is little better, because it's based on the notion that the situation will be different at the end of that time, and it obviously will not. - Jason A. Quest (talk) 00:59, 26 November 2009 (UTC)
Aradic-es
He is at it again, please have a look. [2] ◅ P R O D U C E R (TALK) 10:21, 26 November 2009 (UTC)
- Made a few comments there. NW (Talk) 16:13, 26 November 2009 (UTC)
Happy Thanksgiving!
I just wanted to wish those Wikipedians who have been nice enough to give me a barnstar or smile at me, supportive enough to agree with me, etc., a Happy Thanksgiving! Sincerely, --A NobodyMy talk 16:15, 26 November 2009 (UTC)
Happy Thanksgiving!
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December21st2012Freak Happy Thanksgiving! 16:33, 26 November 2009 (UTC)
Request for rollback
If would be helpful if u could take a look at my request for rollback [3] and get back to me ASAP pday2387 (talk) 18:05, 26 November 2009 (UTC)
- Responded there. NW (Talk) 18:09, 26 November 2009 (UTC)
I note that you closed a recent AfD on this article as "keep", and I have no problem with that -- my issue is that, when I patrolled it as part of clearing up the backlog at NPP, I noted that about 90% of the article is a direct quotation from her university's website. I recognize that a speedy tag for copyright violation would be unnecessarily contentious, even though I have no quarrel with this individual's notability; I've placed a prod tag on this because I want to ensure that the potential copyright violation gets dealt with, but I am in your hands as to what happens from here. Your comments would be very welcome. Accounting4Taste:talk 19:35, 26 November 2009 (UTC)
- Thanks for noticing that. In the future,
{{copyviocore}}
might be a better choice than prod, but I have dealt with this particular case. Thanks! NW (Talk) 20:20, 26 November 2009 (UTC)- Much obliged -- I wasn't familiar with that particular template and appreciate the suggestion. I confess this hasn't happened before in my experience so I was floundering, but did want to ensure that the situation moved forward positively. Thanks for your assistance and prompt attention to this; now I feel confident the situation will be resolved. If there's anything further with which you'd like me to deal, I am at your service. Accounting4Taste:talk 20:44, 26 November 2009 (UTC)
/16 block
Editing from 78.1.0.0/16 has been disabled by NuclearWarfare for the following reason(s): Block evasion: Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Aradic-es
Err... I have no idea who "Aradic-es" is. I hope that you're aware that the IP range you blocked probably covers thousands of people. Tapir (talk) 23:12, 26 November 2009 (UTC)
- I have asked a checkuser to look into the block to see if it is appropriate to lift it, as I don't want there to be too much collateral damage. Thanks for the heads up. NW (Talk) 23:17, 26 November 2009 (UTC)
Wikipedia Watch (5th nomination)
Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Wikipedia Watch (5th nomination) (edit | [[Talk:Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Wikipedia Watch (5th nomination)|talk]] | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)
I'm sure you realize you closed this three hours and change early. There was a reasonable amount of concern about and good argument against deletion and the decision of "no consensus" was also likely. What are your reasons for closing before the normal end of debate? Sswonk (talk) 01:11, 27 November 2009 (UTC)
- 3 out of 168 hours is not really much to make a fuss about. It hardly would have effected the outcome. Chillum 01:16, 27 November 2009 (UTC)
- Still, given the number of people who participated, it might have been wiser to wait. There was a major fuss when things didn't go the way a lot of admins wanted when David Shankbone was closed 6 hours early. I'm not making a fuss, I want to know if there is a good reason for not waiting, like dyslexia on reading the time or even "Who the f--- cares. It's over." If closing early was a mistake, that's one thing, but if not, closing this way can look like NW wanted to beat someone to the punch to advance a point of view. Alison obviously had more than the stub status in mind when she nominated. I for one am not going to DRV, but someone might. Sswonk (talk) 01:47, 27 November 2009 (UTC)
- "dyslexia on reading the time" describes it pretty well; I thought it closed at 00:40 rather than 04:00 when I closed it. I don't really think it is necessary for me to undo my close in this case, as three hours is not really such a big deal, but I shall try to double-check the time in the future. NW (Talk) 02:39, 27 November 2009 (UTC)
- Thank you for the explanation. Closing early can raise suspicion that it was to prevent a random, unbiased administrator from closing the discussion. This looks honest though. --Apoc2400 (talk) 10:47, 28 November 2009 (UTC)
- "dyslexia on reading the time" describes it pretty well; I thought it closed at 00:40 rather than 04:00 when I closed it. I don't really think it is necessary for me to undo my close in this case, as three hours is not really such a big deal, but I shall try to double-check the time in the future. NW (Talk) 02:39, 27 November 2009 (UTC)
- Still, given the number of people who participated, it might have been wiser to wait. There was a major fuss when things didn't go the way a lot of admins wanted when David Shankbone was closed 6 hours early. I'm not making a fuss, I want to know if there is a good reason for not waiting, like dyslexia on reading the time or even "Who the f--- cares. It's over." If closing early was a mistake, that's one thing, but if not, closing this way can look like NW wanted to beat someone to the punch to advance a point of view. Alison obviously had more than the stub status in mind when she nominated. I for one am not going to DRV, but someone might. Sswonk (talk) 01:47, 27 November 2009 (UTC)
Altered Speedy Deletion rationale: Ammonium Sulfamate 99.5%,3600 tons output.
Hi NW Thanks for your note. What CSD had I marked it as? What would have been a more appropriate CSD? THanks peterl (talk) 03:01, 27 November 2009 (UTC)
- No problem. You had tagged the article as "G1: Patent nonsense". A better rationale might have been either "A1: Lacking sufficient context to identify the subject of the article" or simply marking it as
{{db|A quick reason explaining how the page was not an article and had no chance of ever becoming one.}}
Cheers, NW (Talk) 03:05, 27 November 2009 (UTC)- Thanks. I didn't know about tlx db. peterl (talk) 03:24, 27 November 2009 (UTC)
- It really should just be {{db|reason}}; the tlx was just to link it to you. NW (Talk) 03:25, 27 November 2009 (UTC)
Mass Killings Communist Regimes
Yes, but there is no category for deleting a biased piece of propaganda against Communism, and it has flawed facts and no neutralising articles such as mass killings under fascism/capitalism and there's no excuse because there have been plenty.thank you. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 92.26.216.157 (talk) 21:24, 27 November 2009 (UTC)
- That is a reason to edit the article to make it better, however; there was no consensus to delete the article in Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Mass killings under Communist regimes. NW (Talk) 22:14, 27 November 2009 (UTC)
What's the custom?
I answered your question with an "I'm not sure" because I was wondering what the custom was on candidates voting, and I wonder if it has changed what with the secret ballot. I have no strong views; I am content to do what everyone else does. But as candidates could be several percent of the electorate seems to me an ideal solution would be that candidates should vote conscience, not strategy.--Wehwalt (talk) 23:08, 27 November 2009 (UTC)
- I believe the consensus in the past has been for candidates to abstain from voting or only vote in support of candidates as a gesture of good sportsmanship. Note a several stream of opposes for John Vandenberg last year after he voted in opposition for several candidates. With secret voting, however, a lot of this changes. As votes will never be known, the whole issue of not opposing because the candidate might serve with someone whom he opposed is avoided. I would say it is preferable for candidates not to vote at all, as voters won't know if how the votes were cast. I'm not really too sure on this myself, so raising this on the election talk page might be a good idea. Cheers, NW (Talk) 23:14, 27 November 2009 (UTC)
- Well, I won't vote then. And it wouldn't surprise me if SecureVote fails to live up to its name.--Wehwalt (talk) 23:47, 27 November 2009 (UTC)
Henry Wells (general)
Hi NuclearWarfare. Thanks for semi-protecting the above; even for a TFA, that vandalism was getting out of hand! Annoying buggers they are. Anyway, thanks. Cheers, Abraham, B.S. (talk) 00:46, 28 November 2009 (UTC)
- No problem. It's been going on for the past week or so on all the TFAs. I'll see if I can't write up an Abuse Filter to deal with the issue without semi-protecting it. Cheers, NW (Talk) 00:47, 28 November 2009 (UTC)
Block 172.162.111.91 Please
Keeps harassing my talk page... thanks A8UDI 02:43, 28 November 2009 (UTC)
- Already done. NW (Talk) 02:44, 28 November 2009 (UTC)
- Thanks NW A8UDI 02:49, 28 November 2009 (UTC)
PSSAYM box.gif
I noticed that this image was speedily deleted. What happened was that I was working on the Wiki page for the album Popular Soviet Songs and Youth Music by :zoviet-france: online, and had uploaded that and PSSAYM CD.gif to accompany the article. The browser I was using crashed, which took all my changes with it. I worked on it offline on Wordpad and, when I went to cop and paste these changes in the article, I got those notices and the box GIF was deleted. It is a cassette box created by the band for the original release; it's long out of print, very rare and nigh impossible to pirate to look like the original ceramic box (with the time required to do so, one may as well go to the auction sites and look for an existing copy for sale). Both images were obtained from discogs.com. While their pages are technically copyrighted, I am sure that this is meant to indicate their code, basic layout and original writing, and not the information and images about other people's music releases which they speak about. There is also nothing in their terms of service about usage of other people's images/information in other locations. If you could please restore that image (or allow me to restore it), I would appreciate it. Thank you for your time. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Eyevocal (talk • contribs) 17:01, 28 November 2009 (UTC)
- I saw that you reupoaded the image here. That should be acceptable for use for your article, and I shall not mark it for deletion. Regards, NW (Talk) 17:06, 28 November 2009 (UTC)
Climatedragon's block
Hi NuclearWarfare! Could you reply to the unblock request on User_talk:Climatedragon so that it can be resolved? I agree that the account is probably a sockpuppet (although I'm not sure I agree with the policy that prohibits them.. but that's a different issue! :) but it's just not right to just fillibuster or delay responding to leave the person blocked. Better to resolve it outright. Thanks for your attention! --Lewis (talk) 04:42, 29 November 2009 (UTC)
ANI thread on Repeated Reverts at Solid
I'm not sure Logger9 will leave and see his message only as an apology. Just an example, his opponent, Marie Poise promised to leave for good some time ago, and she's back, and I can't see any trigger for that. It is likely he'll return seeing his work is taken to pieces. This is merely to say that some conclusion needs to be reached on that thread before archiving it - not to start it again if and when necessary. Your thoughts? Materialscientist (talk) 05:12, 29 November 2009 (UTC)
SPI
Okay...so I answered your quick request. Three cases have been checked/verified, and are ready for blocks/closing - Leslie Roak, John254 and Atlantispy09. Dominic is working on the IP one, awaiting someone else's second opinion. Please ask Brandon or J.delanoy to do the Scibaby ones, I'm not familiar enough with the MO. That leaves Lear21, and again if you can get one of the regulars to handle that one you'll be all caught up. Risker (talk) 05:49, 29 November 2009 (UTC)