User talk:Wafulz/Archive 4

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Something Awful

You're right-- IIRC, PayPal dropped them because of the porn forum. --Ryan Delaney ^talk 22:33, 2 January 2007 (UTC)

re John Rex

I have attempted to discuss this matter with the contributor (see talk:John Rex) previously. Perhaps a third party comment there (from you) might help? LessHeard vanU 23:23, 5 January 2007 (UTC)

I have noted (and thank you for) your comments on the talk page. The contributor, an old school scholar, needs helping toward providing a decent little article - I hope/think it is worthwhile. Cheers. LessHeard vanU 23:49, 5 January 2007 (UTC)

Addition of the tone tage to Peter Maffay

Hi Wafulz. I was just wondering if you could clarify the addition of the ton tag to this article for me please? It states that the article is not written in the formal style of an encyclopedia article, yet the article entered on the English Wiki is a direct translation of th one on the German Wikipedia, which is where I translated it from. If you could suggest to me some ways in which the article needs improvement, or give me some guidance as to why you added the tone tag, it would help me to reform the article and bring it up to standard. Thanks. Thor Malmjursson 12:02, 10 January 2007 (UTC)

• Thanks for the information you left for me with regards to this article. I realise from reading the bits you left just why you say that its not written in the formal style. I don't have monopoly on the article, so please feel free to change anything else you don't agree with within the text. I will change some of the stuff you told me about and if you feel that there is anything else wrong, feel free to help and review the article once the things have been changed. Once again, thanks for your help and input. It makes my life a lot easier! Thor Malmjursson 15:15, 11 January 2007 (UTC)

Political cults

It should be obvious that there is no way to come to a compromise on this. If you go to the article "Fred Newman" you will see that the username Babydweezil has been engaged in the most extraordinary antics to censor and control all information regarding the Fred Newman organization (aka Social Therapy and the International Workers Party) and its leaders. Essentially, this individual or group of individuals suddenly erupt on an article with aggressive, nonstop attacks, apparently hoping to win control of the article through sheer intimidation. (The group in question used similar tactics in invading liberal social action organizations in the 1980s to try to seize control and drive away anyone who disagreed--today we are merely seeing an Internet version of such tactics.) The problem of cults engaging in such behavior on Wikipedia has a long history (see the articles on Lyndon LaRouche circa about 2 years ago) and one for which Wiki has yet to establish workable means of amelioration. So be even-handed if that is your choice; I just wanted you to know that this is not a typical Wikipedia dispute.--Dking 21:38, 13 January 2007 (UTC)

Marc Lepine

Thanks for your very helpful improvements and corrections to this article. I often don't quite know how to best achieve things! --Slp1 01:24, 17 January 2007 (UTC)

Heh, the Wikisource link was actually a complete fluke. I just though "Hmm... maybe this will work" and huzzah, it did! --Wafulz 01:40, 17 January 2007(UTC)

The article Greeks does mention this in the opening paragraph. I'm not aware of a scholarly distinction between ancient Greeks of Italy and of Greece proper, therefore your theory is just a personal point of view. Miskin 12:22, 18 January 2007 (UTC)

Jay-Z

Check the discussion page of the article.—Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.220.149.61 (talk • contribs)

Thanks for assistance in Reverting Vandalism

Thanks for helping to stop recent vandalism attacks[1] on the Green Hope High School article. Your help is much appreciated. Nimur 20:46, 21 January 2007 (UTC)

Wikipedia:List of media personalities who have vandalised Wikipedia

It looks like the deletion police are trying to circumvent a previous AFD again. See Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Wikipedia:List of media personalities who have vandalised Wikipedia. As you voted keep, could you cast your vote again? - Ta bu shi da yu 22:51, 21 January 2007 (UTC)

Hello

You seems to be interested in participating in RFA sometime in the future. I'd like to point out a couple quick notes:

• Low Wiki talkspace edits: This is crucial, I can guarantee the first oppose vote will be on this if you submit an RFA at this moment. You've joined several WikiProjects, so participate more in project discussions would be a start on getting your wiki talks up (especially Ice Hockey! Coming from another Canadian =P). It seems that you haven't posted in WP:VP also. This might also be an issue, as some user may oppose your RFA on that.

• Interaction with other users: It seems to me that majority of your user talk is on warning users and other non-encyclopedic issues. This is not a big deal at all, but some users might question you on that.

On a last note, one of the most important factor on deciding an RFA is "why do you need the tools". You are very active in participating in WP:AIV, WP:AFD and occationally WP:RPP. But if that's the only ones, then it might not be enough (too many RFA states that they merely want to help out with WP:AIV and WP:AFD backlogs, and the response is usually "Adminship is not just about those"). This is just for perfection.

Overall, you've shown consistency, appreciation and understanding of policies (per AFD discussions and review, I haven't look at them but I am assuming they are reasonable since you have a lot of them) and good quality on editing articles (Both Dominik Hašek and Sidney Crosby have FA potential). Very all-round user! If you can improve your edit count on Wikipedia talkspace to somewhere around 100, I'd be the first one to nominate you. Remind me when you are ready :) Cheers! AQu01rius (User • Talk) 19:03, 27 January 2007 (UTC)

Orphaned fair use image (Image:Fight Paris logo.png)

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New York Botanical Garden

Hi: Sorry it took so long to respond to this. In answer to your question, yes, we own the copyright to that material I posted, my team and I wrote it ourselves. My sincere apologies for not meeting the manual of style guidelines. We'll research that and resubmit it. Our intention was to give a broader listing of The New York Botanical Garden then what is currently on Wikipedia right now. I am probably not the most tech-savvy person to be doing this. We do have a fact sheet about the Garden. Might that be a better document to add on as an addendum to the current entry? Thanks again for your feedback.

You wrote: Hi, you recently added a lot of copyrighted text to the article on New York Botanical Garden. As the PR person from the place in question, do you actually have the permission to copy this text under the GNU Free Documentation License? (Either way the text will have to be rewritten to an extent to meet our manual of style guidelines and neutrality policies). I've reverted the edit for the moment until you can clarify the copyright status. If you want to contact me just add a message to the bottom of my talk page. Thanks. --Wafulz 23:09, 29 December 2006 (UTC)

Retrieved from "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Kikstad" —Preceding unsigned comment added by Kikstad (talk • contribs)

An editor has asked for a deletion review of Solar_Empire. Since you closed the deletion discussion for this article or speedy-deleted it, you might want to participate in the deletion review.

My last RfA/me

Hi Wafulz! You opposed my last RfA in late November 2006. There were opposes citing civility and inexperience with policy. It's about 3 months after that, and I think I've gained more experiance in policy and more emotional stability on-wiki. Recently I've been doing a bit of Wikipedia:WikiProject Spam stuff, though this last week I haven't had a great deal of time. Anyway, I was considering an RfA in a month or two, and I wanted to ask a few people if they had any recommendations as to what I should to or criticisms over the last few months. Thanks for reading! ST47Talk 01:22, 8 February 2007 (UTC)

random

Sorry, but I just don't see the point in randomly deleting articles. Or it seems random to me. Yes I understand the notion behind notability (I did do history back at school :-) ) even if the WP page makes no sense (what's new?), but that doesn't mean I have to like or agree with them in relation to how WP plays with them. They seem fundamentally flawed at times. I don't particularly care either way if Solar Empire is kept or deleted (I didn't create the initial article though I did edit it somewhat to correct things) but I do care that it's a fully formed article and it's being deleted because a bunch of people who've never heard of it can't find suitable sources. If you like, take a look at SE history, I can't but maybe you can. You'll see that originally it was filled with lots of names of people and clans (I think someone was trying to pat themselves on their back), and even though one of those names was mine I tidied it up to make it into a more suitable encylopedia article.

As to being incivil - I know what that means and you don't need to point to the WP entry for it (why am I not surprised there is an entry?) for it. I do it when I'm peeved. At least I apologise for it at the same time (doing so at the same time is pretty uncommon in my experience). 81.106.142.175 01:38, 10 February 2007 (UTC)

The reason I pointed out the incivility is because you're doing it. Apologizing at the same time doesn't do anything - it's the equivalent of "Don't take this personally, but you're really stupid." Don't be incivil when you're peeved. Don't be incivil at all- it's better to just take some time to go for a walk or watch some TV, and then to come back and reply.

Unfortunately, we don't base deletions on how much work was put into the article. We base them on how many secondary sources are available. Every game has lots of names and peoples and clans. In fact, every single online game I've played would fall under this category. However, only one of them ever had an article, and I understand perfectly that it's due to a lack of reliable sources. If nobody can find suitable sources, an article will be deleted. Sorry. --Wafulz 16:43, 10 February 2007 (UTC)

I understand the concept but that doesn't mean I think it works for these things. Many significant online presences will not get "reliable secondary sources" and therefore will not be documented in WP. I don't see why the notability requires for web stuff are so overly strict - it's not like WP has a finite amount of pages or something. 81.106.142.175 21:18, 10 February 2007 (UTC)

Well, this is an encyclopedia, meaning everything has to come from a secondary source or a reliable primary source (ie a census). If we start making exceptions for one thing, then we have to make exceptions for everything, and the whole slippery slope becomes a mess. --Wafulz 03:09, 12 February 2007 (UTC)

Afd votes

Thanks for the pointer - I just recently switched to prefacing the comment with a delete. I could not find an indication how it was supposed to be done.Peter Rehse 04:42, 12 February 2007 (UTC)

Regarding forum posts as reliable sources

Forums can be used as reliable sources in situations such as O RLY? The added reference link is merely showing that it was used on the forums at a particular date. The reliability of the source in reference to this fact cannot be disputed, unless you are disputing that the archives themselves are unreliable and have been altered. There is strong evidence to believe this is not the case, so I strongly believe the forum ref should stay in. --- RockMFR 20:23, 14 February 2007 (UTC)

If the "popularised" thing is the problem, that can be removed. We could just change it to say something along the lines of "The phrase was used on Internet forums as early as August 2003[ref]". --- RockMFR 20:24, 14 February 2007 (UTC)

The problem is that still implies the phrase was popularized at that time. We could have continual references going back further in different forums. It's basically stating it at the earliest we could find it, which is original research. --Wafulz 20:28, 14 February 2007 (UTC)

I sort of see what you're saying, but if worded correctly, I don't see how this can be considered original research. "The phrase was used on the Something Awful Forums at least as early as August 2003[ref]" would not imply anything that could not be gathered from the primary source. If another primary source is found that dates this phrase even earlier, then we can change it. I don't see how we could leave out this primary source solely because another primary source might confirm that the phrase has been used even earlier. Also, I'm going to go ahead and remove the disputed section right now, as there is no source on it and we are clearly disputing it. --- RockMFR 20:35, 14 February 2007 (UTC)

3RR Violation

Just keeping you informed, for your persistent reversions on Something Awful's article, I've listed you on the 3RR page for admin review.

Take care, -Oxxiox 22:04, 15 February 2007 (UTC)

Cam Ward (Response)

I'm sorry, I was only removing information that looked unencyclopedic. I highly doubted that Ward could care less about beating a team he used to support, as the NHL is only about money and cup rings. User:Killswitch Engage

ASCII

Due to the fact that the original picture can't be used I think that there should be some discussion on the ASCII removal first. CambridgeBayWeather (Talk) 04:18, 28 February 2007 (UTC)

How to do AFD?

Thank you for fixing my AFD for Nick Pengalese.

How do I do an AfD? I try my best on following all of the steps but it never works out right. For example, what steps did you take to fix the Nick Pengalese article? Let me learn from you.

Kind regards, Guroadrunner 01:09, 2 March 2007 (UTC)

Wow, your instructions were much, much clearer than what I read at WP:AFD#How_to_list_pages_for_deletion

Your instructions I could easily understand and I will refer to them again if I need to AFD any other articles. I don't know why the official instructions are much more complex.

Thank you for giving me those instructions. Guroadrunner 01:33, 2 March 2007 (UTC)

Glad I could help. --Wafulz 01:36, 2 March 2007 (UTC)

Darcy Tucker stats

If you take a look at his season totals and his career totals, they were already added in to a certain point. So, you might as well just let it in. I found the same with the New York Rangers season-by-season stats. Kingjeff 00:28, 8 March 2007 (UTC)

Stats aren't (and shouldn't) be updated in midseason, because they are usually wrong by the time most people see them. If they want to see the current stats, they can check the NHL profile or TSN profile linked below. It's on the WP:HOCKEY manual of style (Wikipedia:WikiProject_Ice_Hockey/Player_pages_format#Career_statistics specifically). --Wafulz 00:52, 8 March 2007 (UTC)

But that's not the point. Stats totals are being added into the totals anyways by someone. Which means that they don't make any sense since the current season is not included. You either don't do anything or do it correct. and why can't the season article be linked to the year. Kingjeff 00:56, 8 March 2007 (UTC)

Those updates shouldn't be made, and should be reverted and replaced with a notice to wait until the end of the season. The totals can be fixed. The removal of the season articles was probably a mistake on my part. --Wafulz 01:01, 8 March 2007 (UTC)

Maybe a small template is needed. Kingjeff 01:03, 8 March 2007 (UTC)

I just usually toss in a disclaimer in the stats table, and it works really effectively. --Wafulz 01:06, 8 March 2007 (UTC)

Unsourced material on SA and Kyanka's pages

I'll leave it for now, just in case somebody has a valid reason for keeping it, but I plan to remove it soon.

2 questions

- What sentence are you refering to when you say "We spent one month discussing one setence. You can't just remove half an article out of spite of the sentence being removed.)"?

-How are my edits to Kyanka's page vindicative? I'm just trying to make the article follow wikipedia policy. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Keep It Real (talk • contribs) 21:34, 9 March 2007 (UTC).

The sentence about the criticism. Also, you only started removing material after I removed the sentence. You're pretty clearly retaliating to having that material removed. While the contentyou took out may be unsourced or poorly sourced, it's much better to use it as a springboard for some condensed writing rather than removing it entirely. --Wafulz 05:16, 10 March 2007 (UTC)

Mats Sundin

I actually don't remember reverting that. Maybe it was an accident or I saw something bad that wasn't really there. I don't know, but I'll try to pay better attention in the future. Sorry. --Muéro^(talk/c) 05:53, 11 March 2007 (UTC)

Cyberpower

Dear Wafulz, I do not know why you reverted my post. The information I posted about cyberpower is true. I currently have written letters to them and had my attorny write a letter but they have not even acknologed that they have received them. Currently I have written letters to them, the attorny general's office in CA and the bureau for consumer fraud in california.—Preceding unsigned comment added by Hockeywolf2002 (talk • contribs)

RfA?

Want to go for it? I think your ready! AQu01rius (User • Talk) 05:36, 15 March 2007 (UTC)

Submitted. Proof-reading right now. Your answers are awesome, but it's not perfect (it's always tough to have a perfect record answers). Let's just hope it goes well. I'll be off to Europe tomorrow, best of luck! AQu01rius (User • Talk) 06:52, 15 March 2007 (UTC)

Ricoh Coliseum

The address you had was for Earl Haig Secondary School. :-) --Walor 05:52, 15 March 2007 (UTC)

==Okay enough nonsense already==

Regarding this edit: please don't add jokes to articles. Regarding this comment: Talk pages for articles and users are for collaboration around articles and contributions, not for sports arguments. Save it for a forum or for IRC please. Thanks. --Wafulz 05:48, 15 March 2007 (UTC)

I read it here and I thought it was true: http://www.sportsargumentwiki.com/index.php?title=Todd_Bertuzzi As regards "Hasek is the Best" guy, I'm sorry but that retarded name invites argument. His whole user page has a list of reason WHY he is the best. LOL. You know what the best part is? This little kid (age 12) knows nothing about Hasek or Hockey. CJ DUB 13:31, 15 March 2007 (UTC)

I emailed NHLPA and that the site they sent me: http://www.sportsargumentwiki.com/index.php?title=Chris_Chelios I think that is the legitimate page on Chelios. And I disagree with your comment on this kid's utility. Having communicated with him and read his changes he knows ZERO about hockey. CJ DUB 15:11, 15 March 2007 (UTC)

Seeing as you're still arguing and borderline trolling the user's talk page, consider this a final warning before I report you to an administrator for a block. Also, stop blanking the warnings on your talk page. --Wafulz 05:06, 16 March 2007 (UTC) Retrieved from "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:CJ_DUB"

Uh why don't you chill TFO? This little man decided to write me a 1/2 page diatribe about how Hasek is awesome, one more time, on MY talk page. I just ended the discussion. I have no wish to talk to this immature/ignorant person any further. Case closed. CJ DUB 13:12, 16 March 2007 (UTC)

You're a sysop!

Hey there. I'm pleased to let you know that, consensus being reached, you are now an administrator! You've volunteered to do housekeeping duties that normal users sadly cannot participate in. Sysops can't do a lot of stuff: They can't delete pages just like that (except patent nonsense like "aojt9085yu8;3ou"), and they can't protect pages in an edit war they are involved in. But they can delete random junk, ban anonymous vandals, delete pages listed on articles for deletion (provided there's a consensus) for more than one week, protect pages when asked to, and keep the few protected pages that exist on Wikipedia up to date.

Almost anything you can do can be undone, but please take a look at The Administrators' how-to guide and the Administrators' reading list before you get started (although you should have read that during your candidacy ;). Take a look before experimenting with your powers. Also, please add Administrators' noticeboard to your watchlist, as there are always discussions/requests for admins there. If you have any questions drop me a message at My talk page. Have fun! =Nichalp «Talk»=
 PS Please add you name to WP:LA!

=Nichalp «Talk»= 09:09, 22 March 2007 (UTC)

Congratulations. Well-deserved Wafulz. -- FayssalF - ^{Wiki me up ®} 15:21, 22 March 2007 (UTC)

Congratulations, Wafulz! Good luck with the mop. - Anas ^talk? 15:22, 22 March 2007 (UTC)

Congratulations mate! Hopefully we'll see more integrity than insanity ;) – Riana ^ঋ 15:30, 22 March 2007 (UTC)

Yahoo! Congrats! What a score! Xiner (talk, email) 15:46, 22 March 2007 (UTC)

First time nominating.. A success! Congrats! AQu01rius (User • Talk) 22:12, 22 March 2007 (UTC)

Congrats! You may want to read Wikipedia:Advice for new administrators. ≈ jossi ≈ (talk) 03:19, 23 March 2007 (UTC)

Ooooh!! And belated congratulations from myself on your recent appointment. Well done! - Alison^☺ 18:35, 23 March 2007 (UTC)

You certainly deserve it. Good luck! --Meno25 18:12, 25 March 2007 (UTC)

Thank you for Admin Invervention against Vandalism

Your assistance is much appreciated. Thank you for blocking this vandal; the Oldsmobile Vista Cruiser article will certainly benefit from this. Thanks, Nimur 18:05, 22 March 2007 (UTC)

Vandals

I have been being coached by someone who wanted me to post templates on vandal pages and then report them which I have been doing. From what I could tell, my report was removed with no explanation, so I will not bother with this again as it is a great deal of work (for me, at least) and I wanted to do my part but I guess I am unable to do so. Sincerely, Mattisse 02:54, 23 March 2007 (UTC)

Thanks for the feedback. I appreciate it as, although I have been on Wikipedia for 10 months, I find it very hard to understand what is going on. So thank you very much. Sincerely, Mattisse 03:01, 23 March 2007 (UTC)

User:Hippy420getnaked

Hi there. I see you blocked the above username for WP:U. I was on AIV patrol at the same time and was pondering this username. Right now, I can't see how it fails WP:U, in fairness. Maybe it's my naïveté :) Should we maybe move it to WP:RFCN? - Alison^☺ 18:34, 23 March 2007 (UTC)

Well Hippy420 is an obvious drug reference and getnaked is an obvious sexual reference, so my train of thought went towards containing sexual and drug innuendo. However, if you still disagree I guess I wouldn't mind listing it on WP:RCFN. --Wafulz 18:37, 23 March 2007 (UTC)

I see your point. I wasn't aware of the drug reference there. Looks good, and thanks for clearing it up. I was wondering :) - Alison^☺ 18:46, 23 March 2007 (UTC)

Linking of dates esp. where user preference formatting is concerned

Hi. I am rather puzzled at the moment. I have just withdrawn from a long, long conversation with an editor from "Featured Articles", who appears to be systematically de-linking date combinations of day-month-year variety, which I believe are deliberately and validly linked to enable user preference regarding display of dates when viewed in articles.

I have no axe to grind here - I merely wish to gain knowledge of the MoS, especially with reference to 'what to link and when to link it, what not to link and when not to'.

The other editor has failed to convince me that he should de-link the dates of birth and decease of Hoagy Carmichael, which he has reluctantly reverted for me until he can get clarification. We have unfortunately broken off in unhappy vein, and I wonder exactly what goes on at Featured Articles which makes one of their editors believe it is correct to destroy formatting in such a way. I of course agree that over-linking of same year dates and same article references within another article are not desirable, but your opinion on the issue described would be invaluable, as I note that you are involved with WikiProject Wikify. Thanks. Refsworldlee^(chew-fat)(eds) 20:04, 23 March 2007 (UTC)

Bearing in mind I say I have not an axe to sharpen, please look at diff for the example which brought this to my attention. And also be reminded that the editor did revert the edit above, although only to "please me". I will quote no other cases, as I have no reason to compile a list, but I am assuming that the editor's brief would say 'no links of this kind' for all quality articles and not just Hoagy.

I wish only to know how to proceed for myself, especially when I submit my next article - should I personally link in this way, or not link in this way? Thanks. Refsworldlee^(chew-fat)(eds) 20:48, 23 March 2007 (UTC)

Thank you very much for your reply. I now know how to proceed regarding new articles I submit, and indeed my favourite occupation of reverting vandals. Suffice it to say, however, that I shall not be quoting you to the editor concerned. He/she will find out in some way no doubt.

And belated congrats (I've just noticed) on your adminship! If you don't mind, I may return occasionally to obtain well-informed opinions in the future. Best wishes. Refsworldlee^(chew-fat)(eds) 21:07, 23 March 2007 (UTC)

Block of Dare192

Hi Wafulz, hope you're well. I noticed you blocked this user today with the reason 'vandalism only account', but as far as I can tell the user only made one vandalistic edit, and a heap of other good ones. He is now requesting unblock, saying that his account was compromised. Do you think we should give him another chance? Thanks, and glad to see you using the tools :) – Riana ^ঋ 10:54, 25 March 2007 (UTC)

No worries. Everybody was good-natured about it, so no harm done. :) – Riana ^talk 16:07, 25 March 2007 (UTC)

Editor Review

Sorry about the block! I didn't realize that the user was given that message so long ago! Is there some other template I can use to tell a user that he or she has been reported? Or is it easier to just tell them? --Cremepuff222 (talk, review me!) 19:35, 25 March 2007 (UTC)

Okay. Thanks again for reviewing me! --Cremepuff222 (talk, review me!) 19:52, 25 March 2007 (UTC)

Del West

Does it meet WP:CSD#A7 instead? It claims to be the "leading high-performance valvetrain supplier in the world", but with nothing to back up the assertion. Should I add another speedy tag, or just send it to AfD? --Seattle Skier (talk) 20:15, 25 March 2007 (UTC)

Re: 68.224.84.185

The price information this user added was incorrect, and the replacing of a quality image with a lower-quality one was unwelcome as well. I checked Lincoln's website and the Navigator starts at somehwere around $46,000, not 55. --Sable232 03:44, 26 March 2007 (UTC)

Question regarding CSD decision

Hi Wafulz, just came across the article Pinnacle CEO Recruiters, (I'm currently helping sorting stubs placed in the generic stub category), and was about to put it up for speedy deletion under A7, however a check on the off chance the page history, and noticed that it had been put up for speedy deletion today, and denied by yourself. While I'm not asking for you to account for every action you make, it's good to see people been bold, but I must wonder what part of the article have I missed that asserts some form of nobility? My understanding is they are just some investment company that buys into startup businesses, add a little bit of mentoring, and take the main role, the general idea has been around for years, and there are plenty of companies (even organisations) that do this. So yeah, any insight you can provide? Thanks (and congrats on your recent successful RFA) --NigelJ ^talk 08:49, 26 March 2007 (UTC)

SlowZaf

Hey, could you have a look at User talk:SlowZaf? They have apologized and promised not to vandalize any more and I told them that I would ask you to unblock if they promised. I'm willing to keep an eye on them, show them how to edit appropriately, and re-block if they vandalize again, but I kind of doubt it will happen again. I think I made it clear that blocks would be longer if they vandalized again. If you agree that they're OK to unblock, you can unblock them yourself or let me know and I can do it. Thanks much! delldot talk 22:51, 26 March 2007 (UTC)

Done. --Wafulz 03:26, 27 March 2007 (UTC)

Thanks! :) delldot talk 13:14, 27 March 2007 (UTC)

User you blocked recently

Hi Wafulz, just a question about User:LegoAxiom1007. His block has now run out, and he's resumed making frivolous requests for protection over at RFP. I'm unsure about how to approach his behaviour - I'm also not sure we're dealing with a new user here (his very first edit to add something to his monobook. I didn't know I had one until about a month in!). What do you think? – Riana ^talk 04:01, 27 March 2007 (UTC)

OK, that's what I think too. I'll keep an eye on him. – Riana ^talk 04:12, 27 March 2007 (UTC)

Ah - familiar name. Watching too ... - Alison^☺ 04:28, 28 March 2007 (UTC)

Question Re: 131.109.42.2

Hi there. I noticed you removed the above ip from the AIV noticeboard with the comment "rm 131.109.42.2 no warnings NOT EMPTY"... But the user appears to have numerous warnings against vandalism on their talk page, including some from today. Is there something I'm missing? I just want to make sure I'm not putting people on the AIV board who shouldn't be there. Thanks! --Hiddekel 15:50, 27 March 2007 (UTC)

D'oh, I just realized that that warning from today was put on AFTER I added him to AIV. I gotcha now. Today must be stupid day for me. Thanks for clearing that up anyway. --Hiddekel 16:04, 27 March 2007 (UTC)

AIV report on screwy name

I bet special characters messed it up. It's some guy who'd been trolling Freakofnurture making up names like this. Try this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/Freak%5C%27s_car_is_Chry._5th_Ave.%2C_lives_on_Pine_St%2C_Texarkana_TX —dgies^t_c 04:25, 28 March 2007 (UTC)

Looks like someone else blocked him already. --Wafulz 04:27, 28 March 2007 (UTC)

Oops

I just clashed with one of your userblocks. Sorry! - Alison^☺ 04:29, 28 March 2007 (UTC)

Eh, no worries. Worse things could happen. --Wafulz 04:29, 28 March 2007 (UTC)

My pal Zeb

Thanks for fixing that; I might not even have noticed the little dickens picking away at the grownups. --Orange Mike 19:34, 28 March 2007 (UTC)

schoolblock

Please use {{schoolblock}} as your blocking reason and not on the IP talk page. It's meant to head off complaints emailed to unblock-en-l by people who don't bother reading their talk page. Thanks. --  Netsnipe  ►  15:05, 29 March 2007 (UTC) Gotcha. --Wafulz 15:06, 29 March 2007 (UTC)

Cache Cache

You deleted this page, but someone has recreated it as a curious redirect to Face Dances Cogswobbletalk 15:49, 29 March 2007 (UTC)

Tripod beetles

Thanks. You're right, the whole article is blatant nonsense; much of it is just copied and pasted from Lucanidae (the taxobox, references and gallery). The title is also wrong, being plural, which is another give-away. I nominated it for speedy deletion. IronChris | (talk) 17:34, 29 March 2007 (UTC)

The anon that you just blocked for vandalising mine and Riana's talk page

You might want to switch the block to a "soft" block or shorten the time, as I am pretty sure that he uses a dynamic IP and its not worth the collateral damage. It is some high schooler that is mad that we stopped him from spamming an article and he does this from time to time. We are just glad that he finally caught onto the fact that calling Riana a "cock sucking fag" is an odd insult for a woman.

Anyway, thanks for keeping up the fight against trolls and maintaining the integrity of Wikipedia. If you ever need any help, let me know. Cheers. youngamerican (ahoy hoy) 20:31, 30 March 2007 (UTC)

East Kentwood High School

I was wondering if there is some form that we are supposed to follow for High Schools. I would love it if we did have one around here on wiki. If not I dont see a need for the tag on EKHS page. --Mihsfbstadium 02:16, 31 March 2007 (UTC)