User talk:Keotaman
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- this is getting ridiculous -- every time someone gets blocked, that whole range of AOL is blocked. And some of the blocks seem really frivolous. Anyone policing the "blockers"? Can they block just the vandals, instead of the whole ISP range?
Wikipedia seems to be full of amateur (nonprofessional behavior) administrators -- the blocking is horrendous. Block the vandal, not the ISP, stupid. These vandals are operating on their own accounts. Those accounts should be blocked, & not for just an hour, a day or week would be better, otherwise, there IS NO deterrent!Keo 07:10, 17 July 2006 (UTC)
[edit] MNCR interwiki link
What was wrong with the bot-added interwiki link to zh.wikipedia that you removed from Metro-North Railroad? It seemed to point to the right place, as far as I could tell. --CComMack 08:45, 20 June 2006 (UTC)
- It was hidden (not visible), & I thought it might be spurious. Font or language was such that it only showed, in edit, as zh, followed by blank boxes for characters. Do I infer correctly that "bot edits" are benign & to be ignored? Sorry if I stepped on someones toes. Keotaman 09:33, 20 June 2006 (UTC)
- Not a problem. For the record, running a bot is a very tightly-controlled thing, and the administrators will clamp down hard on an unauthorized, malicious bot (and its owner). You can pretty much assume a bot is ignorable unless something really obviously bad happens. The link in question was an interwiki link to the Chinese Wikipedia article on Metro-North, which you can (probably not) read by clicking here; the blank boxes are erroneously displayed Unicode characters. In general, it's good to have a Unicode-friendly OS/browser pair; I use Mozilla Firefox on a Mac; Firefox ought to play well with Unicode on most Windows machines. --CComMack 09:45, 20 June 2006 (UTC)
- Thank you, sir, I learned something here. Maybe you could restore the link, in a form that would be visible? Keotaman 09:55, 20 June 2006 (UTC)
- Interwiki links display in the left hand margin/column area, if you're using the default skin (monobook). I'll restore the link momentarily so you can look for it. Always glad to be of service to newer users. :-) --CComMack 10:00, 20 June 2006 (UTC)
- Thank you, sir, for your help & your patience. Keotaman 21:03, 20 June 2006 (UTC)
- Interwiki links display in the left hand margin/column area, if you're using the default skin (monobook). I'll restore the link momentarily so you can look for it. Always glad to be of service to newer users. :-) --CComMack 10:00, 20 June 2006 (UTC)
- Thank you, sir, I learned something here. Maybe you could restore the link, in a form that would be visible? Keotaman 09:55, 20 June 2006 (UTC)
- Not a problem. For the record, running a bot is a very tightly-controlled thing, and the administrators will clamp down hard on an unauthorized, malicious bot (and its owner). You can pretty much assume a bot is ignorable unless something really obviously bad happens. The link in question was an interwiki link to the Chinese Wikipedia article on Metro-North, which you can (probably not) read by clicking here; the blank boxes are erroneously displayed Unicode characters. In general, it's good to have a Unicode-friendly OS/browser pair; I use Mozilla Firefox on a Mac; Firefox ought to play well with Unicode on most Windows machines. --CComMack 09:45, 20 June 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Metro-North Talk contributions
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The Original Barnstar | |
| For answering my questions about Metro-North trainsets on the New Haven line (when I still used my two ISPs), I give you this barnstar. C. M. Harris 15:39, 22 June 2006 (UTC) |
P.S. Interesting links on your user page. C. M. Harris 01:20, 29 June 2006 (UTC)
