User talk:Sir Nicholas de Mimsy-Porpington/Archive/Archive05

Messages Hi. I got my username changed from User:Anirudhsbh / Andy123 candy? to User:Sir Nicholas de Mimsy-Porpington for reasons in the real world. I will be replying to your messages on this page only, unless you ask to me reply elsewhere. Archives: The Basement RfA thanks Thanks so much for voting, Sir Nicholas de Mimsy-Porpington! Thanks so much for your support vote on my request for adminship! With a final vote count of (82/5/0), it succeeded, and I'm now an administrator! I am thrilled with the overwhelming positive support from the community, and sincerely thank you once again for taking your time to voice your opinion. Feel free to contact me with any comments/suggestions in the future! —Mets501 (talk) 03:51, 13 August 2006 (UTC) WP:PAIN Last time I reported a personal attack there, it sat there for 3 days until someone said "They haven't made any recently" and removed it.--Crossmr 16:17, 13 August 2006 (UTC) haha! Shreshth91 awards Andy with this old man, because of his remarkably old-school style. --May the Force be with you! Shreshth91($ |-| ŗ 3 $ |-| ţ |-|) 08:33, 14 August 2006 (UTC) Block on User:202.6.138.35 Hi Sir Nick, Could you see your way to unblocking this user and reblocking as Block anonymous users only ? This IP is one of the ones for Adam Internet (I've marked the talk page) and blocks to Adam usually have some collatoral damage against user's in Adelaide. I can get around this using the secure wikipedia links but it is slow and turns VP and AWB into boatanchors. Thanks in advance - Peripitus (Talk) 10:13, 14 August 2006 (UTC) Done. I apologize for any inconvinience caused. --Nearly Headless Nick 10:41, 14 August 2006 (UTC) Thanks for the quick response. Wonderful username by the way - Peripitus (Talk) 10:48, 14 August 2006 (UTC) Thank you. I get that all the time. --Nearly Headless Nick 10:49, 14 August 2006 (UTC) Your edition is surprised me Hi, Whould you please tell me why you reverted all of my editions even what about municipality!!! --Sa.vakilian 11:29, 14 August 2006 (UTC) Er, which edits are you talking about? Could you produce diffs? --Nearly Headless Nick 11:31, 14 August 2006 (UTC) August Esperanza Newsletter Program Feature: To-Do List The Esperanza To-Do List is a place where you may list any request, big or small, for assistance. If you need help with archiving your usertalk, for example, all you need to do is list it here and somebody will help you out. Likewise, if you need help with some area of editing on Wikipedia, list it here! Again, any matter, trivial or not, can be placed on this page. However, all matters listed on this page must not be of an argumentative nature. You do not need to be a member of Esperanza (or this program) to place or fulfill requests on this page. 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There is a page for discussing the front page redesign. Signed... Natalya, Banes, Celestianpower, EWS23, FireFox, Freakofnurture, and Titoxd 05:03, 14 August 2006 (UTC) Although having the newsletter appear on everyone's userpage is desired, this may not be ideal for everyone. If, in the future, you wish to receive a link to the newsletter, rather than the newsletter itself, you may add yourself to Wikipedia:Esperanza/Newsletter/Opt Out List. Article on terrorism You may find the article Terrorists of Pakistani origin interesting. It may be deleted soon in perhaps a few hours. If you have any views on having such articles on Wikipedia, please do share them at Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Terrorists_of_Pakistani_origin --Robcotton 16:00, 15 August 2006 (UTC) Question - Protecting a page Is there any way to allow only registered users to edit a page so that any random person cannot edit and mess with it? (Aneesha 09:51, 16 August 2006 (UTC)) Yes, there is. Only administrators have that function of semi-protecting or fully protecting a page so that only registered users or administrators can edit a page. Is there any way I can help? --Nearly Headless Nick 09:56, 16 August 2006 (UTC) People have been vandalising the Ghaziabad page. I have to keep check to come back and clean it up again. I was wondering if it could be protected. Can you help? Thanks. -- Aneesha 16:36, 9 September 2006 (UTC) If you feel that a page is being vandalised, you can report it on WP:AIV using the correct format as instructed on the page. In case you think that some user is adding POV version of his own to the article, you can report it on WP:ANI and try to get administrator assistance. Best wishes. --Nearly Headless Nick 10:30, 10 September 2006 (UTC) Weird! Hi. I was aware that you are online as I saw your edits few moments before. I am gald to see you so active. Perhpas the "contents" of my user [age may also look weird. And, I do not know to set the things in order - I mean the look of the page through Fir Fox. I am also not very active except up-dating stubs created by me in view of Wales to upgrade quality of Wiki. --Bhadani 09:57, 16 August 2006 (UTC) hey thanks so much for unbanning me! this means so much to me! —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Taylorhewitt (talk • contribs) . \o/ --Nearly Headless Nick 08:57, 18 August 2006 (UTC) Brian Mandelbaum He really does frequent IRC, etc under the alias 'jcap'... I can find logs if needed, but just because he's become famous, he shouldn't be running around editing his own page to cover his past. Isn't editing your own page against the rules, anyways? --Jobeus 15:33, 17 August 2006 (UTC) Yes, editing one's own page on Wikipedia is against WP:AUTO. --Nearly Headless Nick 08:46, 18 August 2006 (UTC) IRC Hi Andy, wish I could, but it eats too much of my time. It's already silly that I update DYK between patients in my clinic :) -- Samir धर्म 10:43, 18 August 2006 (UTC) zOMG! We've got a rouge physician! I am not asking you to talk in the channel, just be there, we can need you anytime, y'know. --Nearly Headless Nick 10:46, 18 August 2006 (UTC) Don't think I can IRC from work though... Agree that I need to check in more from an off-wiki sense though (rbtl). E-mail is connected to BlackBerry for urgent issues. Cheers -- Samir धर्म 10:50, 18 August 2006 (UTC) Not for now I have been recalled and voluntarily resigned to stand for a re-RfA on or about October 7th. - CrazyRussian talk/email 11:02, 18 August 2006 (UTC) Thank you. I appreciate your support. - CrazyRussian talk/email 11:04, 18 August 2006 (UTC) Where are you? Where have you been over the past few days? Haven't seen you around. Please tell me as soon as you can; either through e-mail, or on my talk page. --May the Force be with you! Shreshth91($ |-| ŗ 3 $ |-| ţ |-|) 11:16, 21 August 2006 (UTC) I have been keeping very very busy. --Nearly Headless Nick 06:20, 22 August 2006 (UTC) Unblocking I didn't necessarily object to the unblocking of MatthewFenton since he had apologised and it was a one-off thing (had I been around I'd probably have done it myself), but I do object to your characterisation of it as "clearly unwarranting a block". He tried to prod, then AfD, the featured article while it was on the main page, at a time when it was likely receiving many hits a minute. We trust in our editors to use at least some common sense and not to do Really Stupid Things, and frankly, when it comes to doing Really Stupid Things, that was pretty high on the list. If this is the sort of thing that warrants an instant unblock from you, then I suspect my opposition to your RfA was highly warranted. Rebecca 08:19, 22 August 2006 (UTC) Blocks are preventive and not punitive measures that administrators use against other editors. Though I agree that MatthewFenton's edits bordered upon being disruptive, I suppose a warning prior to the block would have been in order. I also happened to have a talk with Matthew over IRC, where most of the editors (if I must say) agreed upon giving him another chance. Blocks like these would do no better than scare away geniune editors who are interested in taking this project further. I assumed good faith in his case. Best wishes. --Nearly Headless Nick 12:46, 22 August 2006 (UTC) As I said, we expect users to have the barest minimum of common sense. A user with Matthew's experience should know better than to do Really Stupid Things, and frankly, I feel that unblocking them on the sole basis they hadn't been warned specifically not to do Really Stupid Things is a lapse of judgement on your part. Rebecca 07:27, 23 August 2006 (UTC) I will stick to what is relevant here. Please review WP:BLOCK; and if you think that a block was warranted, a 3 hour block for disruption would have sufficed in this case. --Nearly Headless Nick 10:33, 23 August 2006 (UTC) Gandhinagar Nah, I bet i'll be seeing you in Auckland or Sydney at a fancy law office before then. :-) Karmafist 18:04, 22 August 2006 (UTC) Well, friends, this is it... I'll be moving to Connecticut tomorrow along with my family. I'll be leaving Wikipedia for a while until everything gets set up at our new home. It all depends on my Internet access, but I'll be seeing you in a week or two. Bye! --Slgr@ndson (page - messages - contribs) 01:56, 25 August 2006 (UTC) WP:PAIN I'm sure you recall the conversation we had about this before, I took your advice this time around, and again I'm in the same boat. Perhaps you could actually attend to this rather than letting it sit for days on end, doesn't seem anyone else can be so inclined?--Crossmr 17:31, 25 August 2006 (UTC) Gandhinagar Sure. I too feel that Gandhinagar should be better than now. I am thinking of a project (and/or portal) to improve Gujarat related articles. There seem to be a fair number of people from Gujarat here. Articles like Surat, Gandhinagar, Vadodara and Gujarat itself could be made an FA. Also other aspects of Gujarat like history, educational institutes could also be improved. But it is too big a task for me alone. Ask around for people who would be interested to join. - Aksi_great (talk - review me) 07:22, 26 August 2006 (UTC) Wikipedia:Esperanza/User Page Award Sir Nicholas de Mimsy-Porpington, thanks for signing up for the Esperanza User Page Contest. The judges have received the fifteen entries, and are ready to start judging. The judges will take a week to complete the judging process, and they will contact all the participants when the judging is done. Please drop by the contest page for contest updates and questions. Take care, and good luck! May the Force be with you! Shreshth91($ |-| ŗ 3 $ |-| ţ |-|) 15:07, 26 August 2006 (UTC) I never signed up. Although it wouldn't hurt to be a part. I think I don't even stand a chance against all those beautiful pages. :P --Nearly Headless Nick 13:40, 28 August 2006 (UTC) Regarding ueername change Can you give me a few days to initiate proceedings to change my username? I am a little busy with debugging my codes and would like some time, that's all. I'd also like to solicit your help in moving my contrib history etc to my new user, if that's ok with you. Thanks.Netaji 01:09, 29 August 2006 (UTC) My RfA Thanks! Thank you very much for your kind support on my recent Request for Adminship, and your faith in me. The request was ultimately unsuccessful - which wasn't entirely surprising - and so I'll be taking special care to address the concerns raised by the opposing !voters before running again. If you have any feedback for me, please don't hesitate to leave it at my talk page. Thanks! -- RandyWang (chat/patch) 13:59, 29 August 2006 (UTC) E-mail On the way -- Samir धर्म 10:19, 3 September 2006 (UTC) No emails as of yet. --Nearly Headless Nick 10:21, 3 September 2006 (UTC) I'm slow in my old age -- Samir धर्म 10:22, 3 September 2006 (UTC) Here goes nothing Alrighty. Thanks again, and we're live. Let's see where this goes. Luna Santin 12:27, 3 September 2006 (UTC) Long-Overdue RfA Thanks from Alphachimp Thanks for your support in my not-so-recent RfA, which was successful with a an overwhelmingly flattering and deeply humbling total of 138/2/2 (putting me #10 on the RfA WP:100). I guess infinite monkey theorem has been officially proven. Chimps really can get somewhere on Wikipedia. With new buttons come great responsibility, and I'll try my best to live up to your expectations. If you need assistance with something, don't hesitate to swing by my talk page or email me (trust me, I do respond :)). The same goes for any complaints or comments in regard to my administrative actions. Remember, I'm here for you. (Thanks go to Blnguyen for the incredible photo to the right.) alphaChimp laudare 01:23, 4 September 2006 (UTC) I really love your username. alphaChimp laudare 01:23, 4 September 2006 (UTC) Luna Santin In addition to "Mediating disputes as an excellent mediator" you also said: "I've also seen him spend time on various article talk pages resolving disputes in a civil and rational way". This would convince me to give him a chance despite the three month thing people oppose or neutral vote for. Can you give any examples of him resolving disputes? - Mgm|(talk) 22:02, 4 September 2006 (UTC) You can have a look at the archives of Talk:Libertarianism. --Nearly Headless Nick 13:44, 8 September 2006 (UTC) JPD's RfA Thanks, Nick, for your support at my RfA, which finished with a tally of 94/1/0. I hope I live up to the confidence you have shown in me in my activities as an administrator. JPD (talk) 15:55, 5 September 2006 (UTC) I am back Hello, Sir Nicholas de Mimsy-Porpington, I am back in action. I think that "they" failed in sending me out-of-circulation. And, who are they? I do not know: hahahhahaha. Have a nice time! --Bhadani 18:16, 6 September 2006 (UTC) Wikipedia:Esperanza/User Page Award Greetings, Sir Nicholas de Mimsy-Porpington. The judges would like to announce that the winner for the Esperanza User Page Contest has been chosen. Congratulations to Misza13 for winning the contest. The winning entry can be found here. If you'd like to participate in the contest again, check by the contest page in a few days and sign up. See you around. May the Force be with you! Shreshth91($ |-| ŗ 3 $ |-| ţ |-|) 09:32, 7 September 2006 (UTC) Karmafist Karmafist has openly stated that he is operating a number of sockpuppets for the purpose of continuing his ongoing vendetta against the project, and has made it plainly clear that he has no intention of editing the article space under the Karmafist account again. I was happy to unblock him as long as he was prepared to behave himself, but he hasn't even gone so far as to apologise for, let alone own up to the specific edits for, the subtle vandalism he had previously boasted about. In these circumstances, I see absolutely no benefit in his being permitted to edit. Rebecca 11:11, 10 September 2006 (UTC) My RFA Thank you, Sir Nicholas de Mimsy-Porpington, for voting on my RFA, which passed 95 to 1. Now that I have the mop, I hope I can live up to the standard, and be a good administrator. If you have any questions, feel free to ask me. —this is messedrocker (talk) 18:11, 14 September 2006 (UTC) Go raibh maith agat! File:Ireland 37 bg 061402.jpg Hi there, Andy! Thank you so much for supporting my RfA! It ended up passing and I'm rather humbled by the support (and a bit surprised that it was snowballed a day early!). Please let me know if I can help you out and I welcome any comments, questions, or advice you wish to share. Sláinte! hoopydinkConas tá tú? 05:00, 15 September 2006 (UTC) edit count Hi! I'm an Italian user so excuse-me for my mistakes. In it.wiki we can use an edit count for count an user's edits. I used the same edit-count for knowing how many edits I do in en.wiki (not very much), but I receveid this message: This user does not seem to have any edits, or they don't exist But I've do enough 30 edits!!! Can you explain me why I can't use the edit-count? I insert your name, and I saw your edit, so it isn't a problem of en.wiki. Thank you, Simscar ;-) 15:32, 15 September 2006 (UTC) Replied here -- Lost(talk) 15:41, 15 September 2006 (UTC) Cool. I have my very own personal assistant. --Nearly Headless Nick 13:38, 16 September 2006 (UTC) Everybody's PA actually. I am infatuated with the WP:HD;) -- Lost(talk) 13:42, 16 September 2006 (UTC) Looks like you're hooked to Wikipedia. How about joining us all on #wikipedia. You need to download an IRC client like X-chat (google for it) and then connect to the Freenode server. Type /join #wikipedia or just click on the link here. --Nearly Headless Nick 13:47, 16 September 2006 (UTC) I tried a couple of times but gave up mid way. For all my infatuation, I consider myself technologically challenged. But will definitely try again sometime. Thanks for the invitation -- Lost(talk) 13:56, 16 September 2006 (UTC) Buddy, you need it to give it a few more goes and you need to wait a while too to make it connect. I am quite surprised to know that you are technologically challenged; when you're studying in IIT. --Nearly Headless Nick 14:01, 16 September 2006 (UTC) sigh... yeah, thats the story of my life... But lets see. Will try again tomorrow. -- Lost(talk) 14:03, 16 September 2006 (UTC) Thank you for the answer!!! =) --Simscar ;-) 14:35, 17 September 2006 (UTC) Subhash bose (reply on my talk page plz) He's blocked for something unrelated at the moment. Could you extend the USERNAME thing at least to 24hrs after he logs on next? I'm somewhat of his PR (he kind of needs one lol).Bakaman Bakatalk 02:11, 17 September 2006 (UTC) I put up my username for change. If it takes longer than 24 hours from now then I am not responsible.Shiva's Trident 03:14, 17 September 2006 (UTC) Calling back Oh, I never forgot the call. I shall call you right now, if you are free. But, I shall be calling from a landline number which you should keep with you only. Please message me on my talk page. I shall call you from the number you called me few days before on 12.09.06. Ok. --Bhadani 13:35, 18 September 2006 (UTC) Are you free now: plz message me on my talk page. --Bhadani 13:37, 18 September 2006 (UTC) So how did you get your nickname? I hope it was not nearly fatal! --BostonMA 13:39, 18 September 2006 (UTC) I R don't C Wassup? Don't see you on IRC 'nylonger.-- thunderboltz(Deepu) 13:40, 19 September 2006 (UTC) Keeping busy. Exams. --Nearly Headless Nick 14:16, 20 September 2006 (UTC) Okay. All the best!-- thunderboltz(Deepu) 07:33, 22 September 2006 (UTC) September Esperanza Newsletter Program Feature: Barnstar Brigade Here in Wikipedia there are hundreds of wikipedians whose work and efforts go unappreciated. 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Daniel.Bryant 07:15, 26 September 2006 (UTC) 3RR Try reading the talk page of the article: I'm removing spam, something which has been the subject of FOUR (4) AfDs and two DRVs, a link which fails WP:External links utterly, a subject that the editor has been attempting to shoehorn into Wikipedia for the last year, at least, even changing the name to get around {{deletedpage}}. Play closer attention before pasting in your templated messages, please. --Calton | Talk 06:56, 27 September 2006 (UTC) You need to report that on WP:ANI, instead of revert-warring with another editor. Its against WP:3RR. If you make more than three reverts in 24 hours, I will have to block you. Best wishes. --Nearly Headless Nick 06:58, 27 September 2006 (UTC) From WP:3RR: In cases of simple vandalism that is clearly not a content dispute (e.g. graffiti, link spam [emphasis mine]), the three-revert rule does not apply. This isn't content, it's linkspam. --Calton | Talk 07:06, 27 September 2006 (UTC) And as for WP:ANI, this isn't an admin action, so I doubt they'd be very receptive to a minor complaint like this clogging up the page. --Calton | Talk 07:08, 27 September 2006 (UTC) Don't you think seeking administrator intervention would be proper in such circumstances, instead of taking on another editor and revert-warring with him? You are a credible editor and that is the reason I served you the notice. Please assume good faith while dealing with other editors. For your information, WP:ANI exists for dealing with editors who vandalise wikipedia with linkspam or gibberish. You would be in no way clogging up the page by taking your request there. Revert-warring is not the answer. --Nearly Headless Nick 07:11, 27 September 2006 (UTC) I am well aware of what WP:ANI is, thank you very much. Also WP:AIV. And while I think one problem user spamming one link to one page doesn't justify bringing out the big guns of WP:ANI, I'll post a notice there, especially since the RFC notice I posted failed to get a response. --Calton | Talk 07:23, 27 September 2006 (UTC) welcome Welcome! Hi, and welcome to the India WikiProject! We're a group of editors working to improve Wikipedia's coverage of India. A few features that you might find helpful: Please participate in any of our descendant workgroups that might interest you. The project has a monthly newsletter; it will normally be delivered as a link, but several other formats are available. There are a variety of interesting things to do within the project; you're free to participate however much—or little—you like: Want to know how good our articles are? The assessment department is working on rating the quality of every India article in Wikipedia. Can you code? The automation department uses automated and semi-automated methods to perform batch tasks that would be tedious to do manually. If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to ask another fellow member, and we'll be happy to help you. Again, welcome! We look forward to seeing you around! -- Lost(talk) 08:30, 27 September 2006 (UTC) Hey Nick, all new joinees get this:). I know you may not have much use for the links but who knows we may manage to get some newbies coming to your page to recruit for the project. Cheers -- Lost(talk) 08:30, 27 September 2006 (UTC) Well, I was already a member believe it or not. Most of my contributions have been to India-related articles. I just never signed up, but here I am now, with a newbie welcoming me. :P --Nearly Headless Nick 08:33, 27 September 2006 (UTC) Yeah, the irony of wikipedia...;) -- Lost(talk) 08:40, 27 September 2006 (UTC) Horizonte Medio Hi Glen, I was wondering if you could give me a hand. I discovered a copyright vio on Horizonte Medio, and was going to list it for speedy deletion, but, unfortunatly, the article was created more than 48 hours ago, so I took it to AfD. Since then, the original article creator, User:Priscilla D has removed all of the copyright vio (along with the AfD tag), so I was wondering if you wouldn't mind just deleting all of the history for the page, bar the last edit. It seems that this would save everyone a lot of time and effort. Thanks for any help you can give. Yours, Thε Halo Θ 09:35, 27 September 2006 (UTC) Stop spamming talk pages, Halo. FGS! I am not Glen. :P --Nearly Headless Nick 09:36, 27 September 2006 (UTC) Well, I don't think there is any particular need of deletion the edits unless someone who holds the copyrights objects to it. You can withdraw the AfD as of now. Problem solved. --Nearly Headless Nick 09:38, 27 September 2006 (UTC) OK. It looks like Glen's gone to bed or something, so I thought I'd find an other friendly admin :) Thanks for the very quick response. Thε Halo Θ 09:41, 27 September 2006 (UTC) Vandalism rollback Hi Sir Nick. Thanks for the vandalism revert on my userpage. Its the same enjoyable fellow whose been attacking User:Gurch. A stream of indef blocks are being handed out :-) Best as always, Gwernol 13:21, 27 September 2006 (UTC) That's alright. But, are you gay? :P — Nearly Headless Nick {L} 13:23, 27 September 2006 (UTC) Well, apparently it changes, sometimes I am, sometimes I'm not. Its all very confusing. :-) Gwernol 14:02, 27 September 2006 (UTC) Queer. — Nearly Headless Nick {L} 16:01, 27 September 2006 (UTC) At the very least in the "strange" and "confusing" senses... Gwernol 17:26, 27 September 2006 (UTC) Vandals You may not have noticed but that is two we have "met" over - thanks for the blocks - points for a third today??!! Cheers --Nigel (Talk) 13:52, 27 September 2006 (UTC) Cool. — Nearly Headless Nick {L} 13:57, 27 September 2006 (UTC) User:(bunch of korean characters) I unblocked the 3-character username you blocked earlier today per an unblock request. They have a namechange pending from 2 days ago so there's no reason for them to be blocked atm in my opinion. Just wanted to drop you a note. Syrthiss 17:01, 27 September 2006 (UTC) Well, that's okay then. I did not place an autoblock myself. Getting a new account is much easier for newbie users, though. — Nearly Headless Nick {L} 17:03, 27 September 2006 (UTC) Warning What?!? I was cleaning up the page by removing random info. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 67.115.220.195 (talk • contribs) . I regret. Please continue with your constructive edits. — Nearly Headless Nick {L} 17:20, 27 September 2006 (UTC) Thank you. 67.115.220.195 19:48, 27 September 2006 (UTC) Fairy's greetings Wow, this sorcerers school here is really great. I just type in eight characters, and within five minutes I'm greeted by a nearly headless ghost! That's magic indeed. Do you think an apprentice fairy like me could become part of Gryffindore? These other guys over at Greater and Lesser Tunbs are certainly Slytherins, I'm sure... :-( Thanks for giving me that link. It looks complicated with all those different steps, but maybe one of those "requests for comments" is what I need. But look what they are doing now: one of them not only has reverted me pretending he was only doing "copyediting", now he has also slapped some weird sign on my user page saying I'm a "sockpuppet"! What can I do? Am I allowed to just remove that sign? I have no idea who that other person is and why he thinks he's me. This is really frustrating. FellFairy 08:46, 30 September 2006 (UTC) Well, I will certainly help you out in this case. But, you need to get help from other editors regarding that article, because I have no knowledge of the subject. Perhaps you can check the history of the article to check out the contributors to the article and message them regarding the dispute on the page, and try to gain consensus. Best regards, — Nearly Headless Nick {L} 08:55, 30 September 2006 (UTC) Thanks. I have not warned him. If you can do so, that would be great. - Ganeshk (talk) 08:59, 30 September 2006 (UTC) FellFairy, the user has been warned. I hope you can resolve the dispute soon. A better option than filing an RfC would be to talk to the users involved and go to other editors invovled with the article and form a consensus on the talk page. — Nearly Headless Nick {L} 09:03, 30 September 2006 (UTC) Thank you very much for your intervention. Actually, ManiF has now inserted some of the content back in, so that it now looks much better. The trouble about discussing with the other editors involved previously is that apparently they were all quite one-sided. All of them wanted either the one extreme version or the other extreme version, this is really the first time anybody even tries to write a neutral version in months. FellFairy 09:10, 30 September 2006 (UTC) I've now gone ahead and did this "Request for Comment" thing nevertheless. I hope I did it right. There have been two other users on the article now who just revert everything I write without responding to what I say on the talk page. I'm rather frustrated. FellFairy 06:35, 1 October 2006 (UTC) Sorry I keep pestering you with this, but I don't know who else to ask for help. You are an administrator on this site, right? I made those "Requests for comment", but nobody has answered. Instead, this other guy, Khosrow II, keeps reverting me. He doesn't even bother to discuss what I say on the talk page, and he reverts blindly, even wiping out other correct things I wrote that he doesn't even disagree with. I told him I'm sick of it and I will only come back to the article and change it when I've read up more and have all the sources. Then the same guy goes to a weird page where all the Iranian editors seem to be hanging out, and says they should create a list of all Iran-related pages so they can monitor them better. Wikipedia talk:Iranian Wikipedians' notice board. Apparently, these guys have a system of watching all Iran-related pages together and not letting anybody else edit them. That page is full of nasty polemics too. I can't believe that's how Wikipedia is supposed to work! And look also at what the same guy is doing at another page, Pan-Turkism. Stupid page, for sure, and he and some opponents of his have been reverting this to and fro at least twenty times within a few hours. Sure, what the other guys write is just as silly as what he writes, LOL. I'm no longer sure I like this place. I just wanted to find some info on those territorial disputes and make a few additions to one article, and what I find is it's all nasty fights here. FellFairy 07:46, 2 October 2006 (UTC) Please provide me with a list of all the pages where this is happening. It will be helpful to me. Thank you. — Nearly Headless Nick {L} 07:53, 2 October 2006 (UTC) I don't really know of all pages. But look at this list at Iranian Wikipedians' notice board. There's a whole list of articles and it sounds as if they are saying: these articles are all "ours", let's watch them together to make sure only our point of view is represented there and nobody else can slip their opinion in. That's certainly how they operate on that Greater and Lesser Tunbs page I was trying to edit. And the Pan-Turkism page, I think Khosrow reverted it at least on 30 September, 21:20, 21:59, and 1 October 14:39, 14:39, 15:41 and 18:31, and one opponent of his did it even more often. FellFairy 08:05, 2 October 2006 (UTC) To tell you the truth, FellFairy. I am an editor from India, and I do not have much knowledge regarding Iranian stuff. It would be much easier if you contacted an Iranian editor/admin to help you out on this particular issue. Meanwhile, I'll do whatever I can to help. Regards, — Nearly Headless Nick {L} 08:08, 2 October 2006 (UTC) Sock-puppet I highly suspect that User:FellFairy is a Sock-puppet of User:Jidan. As I understand the use of "suspected sock-puppet" tag is legitimate as long as there is reason for suspicion. The tag is used to alert admins and other users to take notice and file a request for check-user. --ManiF 09:07, 30 September 2006 (UTC) I'd like to add that if you check User:Jidan's block log, you'll see that the user has a history of sock-puppetry, and User:FellFairy perfectly fits User:Jidan's profile in terms on interest, behavior, editing, language, location and etc. --ManiF 09:13, 30 September 2006 (UTC) So you are still at it? That's not nice. What's that check-user thing? A kind of ordeal where I'm required to hold a hot iron or walk across water to prove I'm innocent? Okay, let's do it. FellFairy 09:10, 30 September 2006 (UTC) Your block of 207.234.225.92 (talk · contribs) Hi, you recently blocked this IP address indefinately for vandalism. This is not a user account and the IP address does not have an enormous record of vandalism and disruption, and therefore I beleive that this block is out of order. Please reconsider. Thanks. — Nearly Headless Nick {L} 12:05, 30 September 2006 (UTC) Done. (aeropagitica) 12:08, 30 September 2006 (UTC) I think it should be speedied Oh, you already did that...:-) utcursch | talk 13:05, 30 September 2006 (UTC) Thank you for the prompt reply. I hope you will be as active on Wikipedia as you are now. — Nearly Headless Nick {L} 13:06, 30 September 2006 (UTC) Thanks Sir Nicholas de Mimsy-Porpington/Archive/Archive05 I award you the Daniel.Bryant Blue Star of Thanks for your kind support for my candiacy at the Esperanza elections of September 2006. Although I didn't make the council, I have every faith in the three wonderful new Councillors, and I again thank you for your support. Daniel.Bryant 10:02, 1 October 2006 (UTC) Vandalism warning Please do not undo edits when it's unnecessary. Welcome to Wikipedia. We invite everyone to contribute constructively to our encyclopedia. Take a look at the welcome page if you would like to learn more about contributing. However, unconstructive edits are considered vandalism, and if you continue in this manner you may be blocked from editing without further warning. Please stop, and consider improving rather than damaging the work of others. Thank you. Stewiegfan Er... that template is intended for cases of extremely obvious vandalism to articles, like replacing them with profanity or obscene images. It is certainly not intended to talk to an Administrator whom you believe has reverted an edit in mistake. Please read template usage notes before doing such things in future --Michael Billington (talk • contribs) 09:12, 2 October 2006 (UTC) "Welcome to Wikipedia." Just out of interest, when was the last time someone welcomed a sysop with a {{blatantvandal}}? Please Assume good faith and use the test templates (starting at test1-n for something like this) when this occurs. Also, please sign your comments with four tildes for a timestamp reference to assist other users in analysing the situation. --59.167.101.54 09:15, 2 October 2006 (UTC) Pelican Shit Hi Nicholas, please just bring this up at WP:ANI. I am the Pelican Shit vandal, and have given up vandalism on wikis infinitely. I want to help combat vandalism; please mention this! PelicanFromBRMB 09:39, 2 October 2006 (UTC) Get yourself a new account and start making constructive edits to the encyclopedia. — Nearly Headless Nick {L} 09:42, 2 October 2006 (UTC)