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Block

I was really surprised to see this block. Did you notice that the last edit was about two days ago, and that they hadn't edited since the final warning that I gave them? Since that's probably a dynamic IP, I elected to final warn and not block. I'm just not sure how that block is to prevent damage to the wiki when they haven't edited in two days...? - Philippe 17:09, 5 April 2008 (UTC)

About the cabal...

I sent you a message a long time ago last year about how to do a cabal. Thanks for helping me out but for some reason when you click on the picture, it doesn't jump to the cabal. I think that some numbers don't match. If you want to help me fix it, the icon is User:Lighthead/The Bizarre Scene and the cabal is User:Lighthead/The Bizarre Scene Cabal. Either help me or tell me what I did wrong, cause I sort of abandoned it a long time ago. Thanks. Lighthead ^þ 22:50, 6 April 2008 (UTC)

April GA Newsletter

The April issue of the WikiProject Good Articles Newsletter is now available. Dr. Cash (talk) 03:56, 7 April 2008 (UTC)

The Wikipedia:WikiProject Good articles Newsletter

The WikiProject Good Articles Newsletter Volume I, No. 6 - April 2008 March issue | May issue Project News There are currently 3,868 Good Articles listed at WP:GA. The backlog at Good Article Nominations is 195 unreviewed articles. Out of 267 total nominations, 57 are on hold, 13 are under review, and 2 are seeking a second opinion. Please go to WP:GAN and review an article or three as soon as you have a chance! The oldest unreviewed articles are: A4232 road, New York State Route 63, Great American Boycott, First Great Western, Duck Soup, Sanja Matsuri, Code of Conduct (affiliate marketing), Prospect Mountain Veterans Memorial Highway, Aliens (film), and Roanoke Regional Airport. The categories with the largest backlogs are: Theatre, film and drama (27 articles), Sports and recreation (25 articles), Transport (24 articles), Music (19 articles), War and military (19 articles), Politics and government (18 articles), Religion, mysticism and mythology (16 articles), Literature (14 articles), World history (14 articles), and Video and computer games (14 articles). The backlog at Good Article Reassessment currently stands at 12 articles up for re-review. GA Sweeps Update The GA Sweeps process is progressing nicely! During the month of March, a total of 92 articles were reviewed. Of that total, 74 were found to continue to meet the GA criteria, and 18 were delisted. There are currently 14 articles that are still on hold in this process, awaiting revisions. Congratulations to Nehrams2020 (talk · contribs), who sweeped a whopping 51 articles during the month! Jackyd101 (talk · contribs) also deserves congrats for sweeping a total of 26 articles! Reviewer of the Month Dihydrogen monoxide is the GAN Reviewer of the Month for March, based on the assessments made by Dr. Cash on the number and thoroughness of the reviews made by individual reviewers each week. Dihydrogen monoxide hails from Brisbane in Queensland, Australia, and has been editing Wikipedia since April 6, 2007. He has contributed to 8 Featured articles and is an avid reviewer and contributor to the Good articles program. Other reviewers should check out his Noob's Guide to GA Reviewing. Congratulations to Dihydrogen monoxide! Other outstanding reviewers during the month of March include: GaryColemanFan (talk · contribs) Limetolime (talk · contribs) Malachirality (talk · contribs) Nikki311 (talk · contribs) Wrad (talk · contribs) Member News There are now 195 members of WikiProject Good Articles! Welcome to the 13 new members that joined during the month of March: AndreNatas (talk · contribs) Dank55 (talk · contribs) English836 (talk · contribs) ExplorerCY (talk · contribs) JayJ47 (talk · contribs) Mastrchf91 (talk · contribs) MBK004 (talk · contribs) Million Moments (talk · contribs) Neparis (talk · contribs) Nicholas Perkins (talk · contribs) NimiTize (talk · contribs) PGPirate (talk · contribs) Zenlax (talk · contribs) This WikiProject, and the Good Article program as a whole, would not be where it is today without each and every one of its members! Thank you to all! To delist or not to delist, that is the question So you’ve found an article that, on the face of it, does not merit its good article status. What next? Especially where there are many glaring issues that need addressing, it’s tempting to just revoke its GA status and remove it from the list, but although we are encouraged as editors to be bold, this approach (known to some as "bold delisting") is not recommended good practice. There are many reasons why a listed article might not meet the assessment criteria—it’s always possible that it never did, and was passed in error, but more likely the criteria have changed or the article quality has degraded since its original assessment. Either way, we should treat its reassessment with no less tact and patience than we would a fresh nomination. This, in fact, provides a good starting point for the delisting process. Approach the article as though it has been nominated for GA review. Read it and the GA criteria carefully, and provide a full reassessment on the article talk page. Explain where and why the article no longer meets the criteria, and suggest remedies. Having explained why the article no longer meets current GA criteria, allow its editors time to fix it! In keeping with the above approach, it may help to treat the article as on hold. There is no need to tag it as such, but give editors a reasonable deadline, and consider helping out with the repair work. Bear in mind that more flexibility may be required than for a normal hold—the editors did not request or expect your reassessment and will probably have other projects taking up their time. They may not have worked on the article for months or even years, and at worst the article may have been abandoned and its authors no longer active. As always, communication is the key. It sometimes helps to post messages to relevant WikiProjects (found at the top of the article talk page), or to contact editors directly (this tool is useful for identifying active editors for any given article). Only once the above process has run its course, and sufficient improvement has not been forthcoming, is it time to think about delisting the article. Communicate your final decision on the article talk page, even if there was no response to your reassessment and hold, and take the time to fill in the various edit summaries on the article talk and GA list pages to ensure the delisting is transparent and trackable. If you have any doubts about your final decision, you can list the article at Good article reassessment or contact one of the GA mentors, who will be happy to advise. Article reassessment is perhaps the single most controversial function of our WikiProject, and the one with the most potential to upset and alienate editors. Yet it is one of the most necessary too, since without the ability to revoke an article’s status we would be unable to maintain quality within the project. However, if we approach reassessment sensitively and with the goal of improving articles to the point where sanctions are unnecessary, we will ensure that delisting is the last resort, not the first. Delisting instructions From the Editors As we near the 4,000 Good Articles milestone, the project continues to grow and to gain respect in the Wikipedia community. Nevertheless, we continue to have a large backlog. If every member of WikiProject Good Articles would review just one article each day during the month of April, the backlog would be eliminated! Please leave any comments or feedback regarding this issue here. Contributors to this Issue Dr. Cash (Lead Editor, Distributor) OhanaUnited (GA Sweeps and Did You Know correspondent) EyeSerene (Article) Improving Wikipedia one article at a time since 2005! WikiProject Good Articles: Open Tasks This project identifies, organizes and improves good articles on Wikipedia. Nominations: Backlash (2007) • The Great American Bash (2007) • Pacers-Pistons brawl • Luke Ravenstahl • Jenny (Doctor Who) Reassessment: Madonna (entertainer) • Sweeps / List: references (All Categories), image tags (All Categories), article quality (All Categories) Possible GAs Needing References: Clarinet • Carleton University • Appalachian Mountains Task forces: Project quality • Unreferenced GA Good article criteria | Statistics | GAN Report | Changes log Nominations queue: 214 articles (50 of them are on hold) as of 08:00, 12 June 2008 | edit

Deaths in 2008

Was it your intention to remove much of the content of this page? Looks like a mistake or error somewhere.--h i s ^{s p a c e} _{r e s e a r c h} 18:47, 8 April 2008 (UTC)

Oh dear, I have no idea how that happened - I had only meant to revert changes to a single line. Should be fixed now. krimpet✽ 18:50, 8 April 2008 (UTC)

Krimpbot

What exactly is the purpose of Krimpbot's existence? I know it tags Tor nodes (like it does me) but... what's the point of that? O_O —Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.65.142.36 (talk) 23:47, 8 April 2008 (UTC)

RFA thanks

Thanks for your support in my RFA, that didn't quite make it and ended at 120/47/13. There was a ton of great advice there, that I'm going to go on. Maybe someday. If not, there are articles to write! Thanks for your support. Lawrence § t/e 17:57, 12 April 2008 (UTC)

V-Dash

Thanks for getting him - I knew he was a sock, I just didn't know whose. Acroterion _(talk) 14:22, 14 April 2008 (UTC)

Req

Could you have a look at my comments on Jehochman's talkpage, please? I've made a few points about his recent block that I'd like some review of. --Relata refero (disp.) 21:28, 16 April 2008 (UTC)

Please ignore that, Jehochman has chosen to unblock in response to questions raised. --Relata refero (disp.) 13:10, 17 April 2008 (UTC)

Thanks

Thanks for your help on my monobook.js. Any idea why the changes haven't taken effect? I bypassed my cache and everything, but I still don't have my tools back. I'd appreciate your help. -- Levine2112 ^discuss 18:32, 17 April 2008 (UTC)

Scratch that last request. I figured it out. Thanks again! -- Levine2112 ^discuss 18:33, 17 April 2008 (UTC)

User:Krimpet/CH2.js

Does the script still work? It doesn't show any new buttons or anything on the edit page for images. Could you post a screenshot of how it is supposed to look for future reference? Gary King (talk) 20:19, 14 April 2008 (UTC)

Hmm, it's been a while since I last worked on it - it's a bit outdated now that tools such as the "Directly upload file" feature of CommonsHelper exist, you may want to give that a try :) krimpet✽ 14:54, 21 April 2008 (UTC)

Jack Goldsmith

I see you deleted and restored this article with the description "wiping up the scum". Could you elaborate on this? I don't remember any vandalism being on this article. Thanks.--Poshzombie (talk) 16:37, 19 April 2008 (UTC)

There was a very short spurt of edit warring by a particularly nasty banned user from right before that I removed from the history. krimpet✽ 14:55, 21 April 2008 (UTC)

Investigation assistance

Hi Krimpet, I was wondering if you could take a look at something for me? A CheckUser was recently filed on another account, PHG: Wikipedia:Requests for checkuser/Case/PHG. One of the accounts that we're thinking might have been used by him, was Vpopescu (talk · contribs). The Vpopescu account was evidently one that was used infrequently on Romanian topics through 2007, and suddenly on April 16, 2008 it had a "personality shift", working in completely different topic areas, and even suddenly "forgetting" the Romanian language which it had known previously. While I was looking through its earlier contribs, I noticed that it had only one edit in Wikipedia space, which was to participate at your RfA.[1] Does this ring any bells for you? Were you dealing with any other users at the time who might have been using secondary accounts, one of which they may have used at your RFA? My hypothesis is that someone had built a secondary account, and then they passed it along to PHG for a day to help him get around a block. But I'm honestly not sure. If you have any insight, I'd appreciate it! Thanks, Elonka 11:13, 20 April 2008 (UTC)

Hmm, unfortunately I'm not sure I can help much here :/ I do remember some confirmed sockpuppets participated my RfA for reasons I never could fathom, given that I'd not really participated in anything controversial prior to that; I'd always assumed they were trying to grow their puppet-farm participating in random RfAs and happened to hit mine. However your hypothesis does sound like a very likely one, good luck tracking them down :) krimpet✽ 15:02, 21 April 2008 (UTC)

Alright, thanks.  :) If anything comes to mind, feel free to post it at the CheckUser. I think someone may be starting an SSP too, not sure. --Elonka 15:23, 21 April 2008 (UTC)

 :O

144.32.58.114 (talk) 20:53, 27 April 2008 (UTC)

Deletion

(Deletion log); 23:21 . . Krimpet (Talk | contribs) deleted "Talk:Houston McCoy" (Courtesy deletion)

Well that's confusing, I miss something? Sherurcij ^{(Speaker for the Dead)} 17:32, 28 April 2008 (UTC)

It was deleted as a courtesy to a living person who objected to some of the discussion on the page remaining available. See WP:DP#Courtesy blanking. krimpet✽ 18:07, 28 April 2008 (UTC)

Yeah, I figured that's what "courtesy deletion" was, my curiosity stems from the fact the subject's lawyer just eMailed me to ask why it was deleted and cursed WP for deleting it...Is there an OTRS ticket or something for the request for deletion? Sherurcij ^{(Speaker for the Dead)} 20:00, 28 April 2008 (UTC)

Yes, OTRS ticket #2008042710011139 - it was forwarded from the requester to OTRS by Jimmy Wales, who made the deleted comment in question and suggested a courtesy deletion. He may be the best one to ask about this issue. krimpet✽ 21:00, 28 April 2008 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Requests_for_adminship/BAG

It got included on Tangobot's last run here. It's under WP:Requests for adminship, but wasn't included until just now. Anyway, it's pretty misleading as it is now. The name is essentially a candidate's RfA, as if "BAG" were running for RfA. Enigma ^message 19:00, 28 April 2008 (UTC)

Someone just did noinclude to it. We'll see if it works. Enigma ^message 20:04, 28 April 2008 (UTC)

All good now. :) Sorry to bother. Enigma ^message 21:00, 28 April 2008 (UTC)

Lady Aleena's RfA

Krimpet...Thank you for supporting my nomination for adminship. Through it I have become aware of a great many people who can help me in my future editing endeavors. Even though I was not promoted, your support shows that I still have something to contribute to Wikipedia, even if it is minor edits to fix spelling and grammar to working in WikiProjects to help others make great articles. If you wish to further discuss the nomination, please use its talk page. Stop by my talk page anytime, even if it is just to say hello. Have a wonderful day! - LA @ 04:36, 30 April 2008 (UTC)

Made me laugh

[2] Best decline reason I have ever seen :) « Gonzo fan2007 (talk ♦ contribs) @ 05:12, 2 May 2008 (UTC)

Ah. I see you found one of my Grawp blocks :) - Alison ^❤ 05:37, 2 May 2008 (UTC)

WikiProject Good Articles May Newsletter

The May Newsletter for WikiProject Good Articles has now been published. Dr. Cash (talk) 22:16, 2 May 2008 (UTC)

The Wikipedia:WikiProject Good articles Newsletter

The WikiProject Good Articles Newsletter Volume I, No. 7 - May 2008 April issue | June issue Project News There are currently 4,050 Good Articles listed at WP:GA. The backlog at Good Article Nominations is 195 unreviewed articles. Out of 227 total nominations, 16 are on hold, 14 are under review, and two are seeking a second opinion. Please go to WP:GAN and review an article or three as soon as you have a chance! The oldest unreviewed articles are: Fighting Tommy Riley, Brock Lesnar, Cluj-Napoca, Wolf's Rain, Brian Kendrick, and North and South (TV serial). The categories with the largest backlogs are: Theatre, film and drama (45), Sports and recreation (34), Music (18), Transport (15), World history (14), Politics and government (13), and Places (12). The backlog at Good Article Reassessment currently stands at 17 articles up for re-review. GAN Reviewer of the Month Noble Story (talk · contribs) is the GAN Reviewer of the Month for April, based on the assessments made by Dr. Cash on the number and thoroughness of the reviews made by individual reviewers each week. Noble Story joined Wikipedia on May 16, 2007. He is a big fan of the Houston Rockets, and edits many related articles, as well as articles on basketball in general. Congratulations to Noble Story (talk · contribs) on being April's GAN Reviewer of the Month! Other outstanding reviewers during the month of April include: Dihydrogen Monoxide (talk · contribs) Drewcifer3000 (talk · contribs) Ealdgyth (talk · contribs) GaryColemanFan (talk · contribs) Gary King (talk · contribs) Jbmurray (talk · contribs) Kaypoh (talk · contribs) Lpangelrob (talk · contribs) Mitchazenia (talk · contribs) Nikki311 (talk · contribs) Realist2 (talk · contribs) Redtigerxyz (talk · contribs) ThinkBlue (talk · contribs) Member News There are now 212 members of WikiProject Good Articles! 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These topics are: Arts, Language and literature, Philosophy and religion, Everyday life, Social sciences and society, Geography and places, History, Engineering and technology, Mathematics, and Natural sciences. Each of these topics are further narrowed down to more specific topics. For example, Arts can be narrowed down to Art and architecture, Music, and Theatre, film and drama. But let's not get into sub-topics in this article because of its depth. Now you will probably ask, "I already knew this, so what is your point?" What I want to illustrate is that some people often forget a step when they promote an article to GA. After they have posted their review in the article talk page, added the article name to the corresponding topic in the good article page, increased the GA count by 1, and added the {{GA}} to article talk page, many reviewers tend to forget to add the topic parameter in {{GA}} or {{ArticleHistory}}. You can browse the topic parameter abbreviations at on this page as well as what each top-level GA topic means, because sometimes it can be chaotic and confusing to pick a topic. For example, should On the Origin of Species be placed under the Natural Science topic (because it's related to evolution), or under the Language and Literature topic (because it is a book)? The correct answer is to place it under Language and literature topic, because its categorization as a proper title supercedes other categories. Let's go back to the page that shows GA topics; does anyone spot the eleventh topic? Yes, Category:Uncategorized good articles is the 11th topic, only it shouldn't be there. Articles that do not have a topic parameter in either {{GA}} or {{ArticleHistory}} will be placed in this category. The topic "Uncategorized" is not very informative, is it? So if you have time, you can consider cleaning up the articles that are left in this category and move them to the appropriate category by adding a topic parameter. That's it for this month, I hope you learned a little from it. GA Sweeps Update The GA Sweeps process is progressing nicely! During the month of April, a total of 26 articles were reviewed. Of that total, 15 were found to continue to meet the GA criteria, and two were delisted. There are currently six articles that are still on hold in this process, awaiting revisions. One article was exempted from review because it was promoted to FA. Two articles were exempted from review because they were already delisted by another member in the community. We are once again recruiting new sweeps participants. Candidates should be very strong and comfortable in reviewing GA and familiar with the GA processes and criteria. If you are interested, please contact OhanaUnited for details. 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Please leave any comments or feedback regarding this issue here. Contributors to this Issue Dr. Cash (Lead Editor, Distributor) OhanaUnited (Article, GA Sweeps and Did You Know correspondent) Improving Wikipedia one article at a time since 2005! WikiProject Good Articles: Open Tasks This project identifies, organizes and improves good articles on Wikipedia. Nominations: Backlash (2007) • The Great American Bash (2007) • Pacers-Pistons brawl • Luke Ravenstahl • Jenny (Doctor Who) Reassessment: Madonna (entertainer) • Sweeps / List: references (All Categories), image tags (All Categories), article quality (All Categories) Possible GAs Needing References: Clarinet • Carleton University • Appalachian Mountains Task forces: Project quality • Unreferenced GA Good article criteria | Statistics | GAN Report | Changes log Nominations queue: 214 articles (50 of them are on hold) as of 08:00, 12 June 2008 | edit

Why not use the article's talk page?

Wow, Guettarda, all I can say is... you're wrong. Your clique is wrong. And the fact that you're grasping at straws and trying to turn this into a smear-fest and childish edit count contest makes it abundantly clear you know you're wrong. If this is the way you treat an editor who comes along to tweak a BLP, you have no right to edit any article with a {{BLP}} tag; for someone claiming to write an encyclopedia, you seem blissfully unaware of the real-life considerations. The goal of this project is to create a real, respected reference, not an online pseudo-encyclopedia nobody takes seriously.

I'm putting an end to this discussion. I thank B and SWATJester for trying to inject some sense, but this discussion isn't going anywhere other than these folks' dinner plate. krimpet✽ 15:36, 5 May 2008 (UTC)

Welcome to Guettarda. Apparently, he thinks I like to out people and hurt them (while conveniently ignoring that I'm up on Hivemind, and have a convicted felon stalking me from there). But anyway, civility and NPA don't apply to him, so it's ok. ⇒SWATJester ^{Son of the Defender} 16:23, 5 May 2008 (UTC)

I tried to post to the ANI thread yesterday but I was having internet problems and kept getting edit conflicts and couldn't get my comment up before my internet access totally crashed out. I don't want to restart the dispute, but I just wanted to tell you that I thought the way you were treated was utterly outrageous. If we treat our admins and established editors like blatant trolls and vandals undeserving of so much as an explanation, it's no wonder we have such problems with retention and so many folks leaving the project in disgust. That whole thread was a shocking eye opener and I'm sorry you were treated like that. Sarah 03:19, 6 May 2008 (UTC)

Thank you for the kind words :) At the very least, I'm glad to see the biography seems to have improved in the end, so perhaps something good did come of this. krimpet✽ 06:10, 6 May 2008 (UTC)

BAG?

Hey, I think, you'd be a great asset to WP:BAG. Therefore, I have nominated you for membership here. If you would, please indicate there wether or not you accept this nomination. SQL^{Query me!} 06:04, 6 May 2008 (UTC)

Ah, sure, I would love to lend a hand with BAG :) I'll accept. krimpet✽ 06:15, 6 May 2008 (UTC)

Test! SQL^{Query me!} 05:24, 13 May 2008 (UTC)

Rfb participation thanks

Hello, Krimpet.

I wanted to personally thank you for taking part in the project-wide discussions regarding my candidacy for bureaucratship. After bureaucratic discussion, the bureaucrats decided that there was sufficient significant and varied opposition to my candidacy, and thus no consensus to promote. Although personally disappointed, I both understand and respect their decision, especially in light of historical conservatism the project has had when selecting its bureaucrats. If you have any further suggestions or comments as to how you think I could help the project, please let me know. Once again, thank you for your support, and good luck on the BAG nomination! -- Avi (talk) 17:45, 12 May 2008 (UTC)

untitled the musical

Hey, my article on a show got deleted due to suspected copyright infringement, but I cleared it up and proved that I had the rights to the material and permissions. Can you get me a copy of the article before it was deleted? Thanks Jjbalcou (talk) 05:49, 14 May 2008 (UTC)

ED

You could've full-protected it for the same reason ;) Sceptre ^(talk) 14:41, 14 May 2008 (UTC)

Welcome to BAG!

It appears your BAG nom succeeded! Please see User:SQL/How_to_close_a_BRFA before trying to close a BRFA. I'm always available if you need anything! SQL^{Query me!} 21:06, 15 May 2008 (UTC)

Alison talk page

Ip is back again here BigDunc^Talk 09:54, 16 May 2008 (UTC)

Y Done. :) krimpet✽ 09:57, 16 May 2008 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/C68-FM-SV

An Arbitration case in which you commented has been opened, and is located here. Please add any evidence you may wish the Arbitrators to consider to the evidence sub-page, Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/C68-FM-SV/Evidence. Please submit your evidence within one week, if possible. You may also contribute to the case on the workshop sub-page, Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/C68-FM-SV/Workshop.

On behalf of the Arbitration Committee, John Vandenberg ^(chat) 11:49, 16 May 2008 (UTC)

RFA Thanks

Thanks for your support at my recent Request for adminship. I hope you find I live up to your expectations. Best, Risker (talk) 15:45, 16 May 2008 (UTC)

User:Joelster

I have reported you to WP:AN for your block on jolsers user. Trees Rock ^{Plant A Tree!} 19:51, 16 May 2008 (UTC)

Camille Paglia photo deletion

hi,

i'm curious, why is the Camille Paglia photo deleted? http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Upload&wpDestFile=Pagliaphoto.jpg

Thanks. Xah Lee (talk) 12:26, 18 May 2008 (UTC)

Ah, looks like it was copied over to Commons, but someone removed the licensing info at some point and it was mistakenly deleted. I've restored it on Commons with the original licensing info intact. :) krimpet✽ 17:14, 18 May 2008 (UTC)

Image:WolframEschenbachj.JPG

Hello, Krimpet. Can you please check the content of the deleted description page Image:WolframEschenbachj.JPG. I am almost sure that it has been transfered to Commons without providing enough information about the author, source, as well as the original upload log. (Please, answer here, I watch your page) Thank you in advance. →Spiritia 18:53, 19 May 2008 (UTC)

Hmm, I'm not quite sure what happened there - looks like the Commons uploader mixed things up. I've fixed the page on Commons to reflect the original's information - for one, the image is actually public domain, not GFDL. krimpet✽ 14:29, 20 May 2008 (UTC)

My recent RfA

Thank you for supporting my RfA, which unfortunately didn't succeed. The majority of the opposes stated that I needed more experience in the main namespace and Wikipedia namespace and talk space, so that is what I will do. I have made a list and I hope I will be able to get through it. I will go for another RfA in about three month's time and I hope you will be able to support me then as well. If you have any other comments for me or wish to be notified when I go for another RfA, please leave them on my talk page. If you wish to nominate me for my next RfA, please wait until it has been about three months. I will not be checking back to this page so if you would like to comment or reply please use my talk page. Thanks again for participating in my RfA! ·Add§hore· ^Talk/_Cont 06:43, 20 May 2008 (UTC)

 :O

*huggles* -- Gurchzilla (talk) 12:02, 20 May 2008 (UTC)

Meatpuppet

You might want to check out David's attempted rebuttal to your evidence on the C68-FM-SV evidence page, a clear lack of AGF with more of the same old meatpuppet canard. >_< --Dragon695 (talk) 03:11, 22 May 2008 (UTC)

No need

The two accounts are segregated and unrelated, with no "good hand/bad hand" concerns. I know of no need to switch now and confuse the situation. BobTheTomato (MrWhich) (talk) 04:14, 22 May 2008 (UTC)

RFCU

Can you offer input on Wikipedia:Requests_for_checkuser/Case/Eyrian#Eyrian? To me this is convincing enough to block as sock of a banned user (old info is stale unless a CU saved info and offer s it up). I'd like more input, but I am tempted to block as an obvious sock. Post on the RFCU page please. — Rlevse • Talk • 09:54, 23 May 2008 (UTC)

Commited identity

Surely rot13 is not 'secure' at all, and is thus completely null? asenine ^{say what?} 19:04, 24 May 2008 (UTC)

I think it's a joke :P SQL^{Query me!} 19:29, 24 May 2008 (UTC)

my RfA - Ta!

Gwen gleans, wending keen by the wikirindle.

Thanks so much for supporting and helping me with my RfA, which went through 93/12/5. I'll be steadfast in this trust the en.Wikipedia community has given me. Cheers! Gwen Gale (talk) 01:11, 25 May 2008 (UTC)

Uprotection

Greetings Krimpet,

Could you please unprotect the Australian International School, Malaysia page as I would like to rewrite it from a neutral point of view and bring it up to date.

Thanks,

Fil.

F.Goff (talk) 10:54, 26 May 2008 (UTC)

Sweet....

Considering that less than a week ago I was unblocking and apologizing to a user I blocked as an obvious sock after the RFCU came back negative, this makes me very happy :) --jonny-mt 04:15, 29 May 2008 (UTC)

BRC & privacy concerns

Hey Krimpet, would you mind dropping in your opinion here? Thanks. GlassCobra 01:24, 30 May 2008 (UTC)

KrimpBot

Hi Krimpet. Your Tor bot seems to be malfunctioning giving wrong results. 217.152.200.220 (talk · contribs) and 65.39.195.36 (talk · contribs) are two I have conveniently to hand (they are definitely open right now), but I've been seeing this for quite a few days. -- zzuuzz ^(talk) 20:26, 30 May 2008 (UTC)

Oh dear, thanks for letting me know - looks like the central directory server I was relying on, "dizum", seems to have gone down. I switched the tool to use the server "tor26" instead, and it should work now. krimpet✽ 22:58, 30 May 2008 (UTC)

Your vote in the 2008 Wikimedia Board Election

Hey there. I'm a member of the 2008 Board Election Committee. Unfortunately, due to some technical problems at the start of the election, the ballot that you submitted is invalid. Could you please visit Special:Boardvote and vote again? Your prior (invalid) ballot will be automatically replaced with your new one. Thanks for your patience. - Mark 07:15, 1 June 2008 (UTC)

Async Tor exits

Hi again Krimpet. Consider these two Tor nodes: [3][4] and [5][6]. Is there anything your bot can do to correctly detect these? -- zzuuzz ^(talk) 15:13, 1 June 2008 (UTC)

Sadly, no - no method of detecting Tor IPs that I am aware of can easily determine if traffic exits from an address other than the one advertised. :/ krimpet✽ 00:52, 3 June 2008 (UTC)

Moving images to Commons

When deleting images under CSD I8 please make sure to follow the procedures outlined under Wikipedia:Criteria for speedy deletion#I8. Specifically, you must verify "All information on the image description page is present on the Commons image description page, including the complete upload history with links to the uploader's local user pages." Thank you. --Pascal666 (talk) 17:20, 2 June 2008 (UTC)

You are seriously in error

I realize AGF is less frequently applied on IRC than here; however, you are in error as to my motivation and what I was doing. If someone asks "Did I miss something about this candidate?" from those who have the opposing view, AGF (and indeed, accuracy) is that they are, as they (in this case, myself) stated, wondering if their position is correct. At the time I asked for the rationales of those supporting, I was one of very few opposes on an Rfa which appeared to be certain to pass resoundingly. As one of a tiny minority, I naturally wondered if I was in error in my position (and judgment of the applicant.) Your subsequent assertion that I was "looking for opposes" is inaccurate. I was looking for supports, and asking for their rationale to double-check my position. Had you bothered to ask me about it, I would have been happy to clarify and explain what to me was very clear. KillerChihuahua^?!? 13:37, 3 June 2008 (UTC)