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Mister-Miss International Action Online eps.1

Hi Sandstein

I noticed this page was created Mister-Miss International Action Online eps.1 by user:Themmiaoeps1. I also noticed similar pages were created and deleted (Mister-Miss International Action Online 2011) from a user which you have declined their unblock request. blocked User:Emmaimmots. Syrthiss blocked him/her rather.--Visik (talk) 08:48, 7 February 2011 (UTC)

Is there anything you would like me to do?  Sandstein  15:22, 7 February 2011 (UTC)

Looks like it was taken care of by other admins. No action required Sandstein. Thank you for your reply. [1] --Visik (talk) 03:11, 9 February 2011 (UTC)

Re: Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Arthas Menethil (2nd nomination)

Hello, Sandstein.

I am slowly combing through Warcraft/World of Warcraft articles past and present in an effort to create well-written and well-sourced articles related to the game series. It seems that a lot of them once existed and were deleted in 2007 due to poor sourcing and POV-style writing. I noticed that you deleted the Arthas Menethil page subsequent to the December 2007 deletion discussion referenced in the headline. The article's subject was merged (such as it is) into the Races and factions of Warcraft article's "Humans" section (to which Arthas redirects), where he bears a two-sentence mention.

Media coverage has been generated in the intervening 3 years regarding the game series in general and the article subject specifically (named #41 of IGN's Top 100 Videogame Villains and #19 of Gamepro's 47 Most Diabolical Video-Game Villains of All Time, as two examples). Additionally, interviews with the game creators regarding game and character development are now available via independent sources as well as Blizzard's World of Warcraft magazine. As such, would it be possible to userify the contents of this article to User:Cjmclark/Sandbox/Warcraft/Arthas Menethil so that I may work on rewriting and sourcing it? Please let me know if you have any questions. Thank you.  Cjmclark ^(Contact) 18:46, 7 February 2011 (UTC)

Sure, done.  Sandstein  20:33, 7 February 2011 (UTC)

Thanks. Wow...that article really was pretty terrible. Oh, well. Time to get to work.  Cjmclark ^(Contact) 00:26, 8 February 2011 (UTC)

AE User:Koakhtzvigad

Could you please go back and state explicitly in your decision for topic-ban what I am being banned for so I can state it in my appeal. Koakhtzvigad (talk) 04:16, 8 February 2011 (UTC)

For your edits to B'Tselem, as already explained in the AE thread.  Sandstein  06:28, 8 February 2011 (UTC)

In reply to your bolding of "explicitly" above, I do not believe that it is necessary for me to expand on my statement at AE at this time.  Sandstein  11:43, 8 February 2011 (UTC)

Thank you Koakhtzvigad (talk) 12:03, 8 February 2011 (UTC)

Are you sure you will not reconsider your decision in regard to the imposed sanction? Koakhtzvigad (talk) 13:01, 9 February 2011 (UTC)

Why should I?  Sandstein  13:13, 9 February 2011 (UTC)

AfD voter fraud

I know this is old and we probably can't do anything now, but I thought you should know anyway, especially since this editor is still engaged in whitewashing the Russell Blaylock article by making Blaylock's radically fringe and dangerous views appear neutral or mainstream:

• User:Greensburger voted keep three times in the following AfD:

• Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Russell_Blaylock

I have notified about the problems involving several editors here:

• Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Medicine#Russell_Blaylock

They insist on slanting the article away from its actual fringe status. -- Brangifer (talk) 22:20, 8 February 2011 (UTC)

That AFD is very old. This now sounds like a case for content dispute resolution. Have you tried any?  Sandstein  11:55, 9 February 2011 (UTC)

ANI issue that may involve Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/Palestine-Israel articles

I'd appreciate it if you'd look at WP:ANI#Why hasn't/can't Template:Palestine foreign relations be deleted? as I think there are issues here relating to Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/Palestine-Israel articles and I note you've been involved in AE requests there. Thanks. Dougweller (talk) 09:22, 9 February 2011 (UTC)

DYK for Petra (sculpture)

rʨanaɢ (talk) 20:46, 9 February 2011 (UTC) 00:03, 10 February 2011 (UTC)

Meowy

Hi. I think this might be of interest for you as an admin who deals with AA issues: Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Meowy. Regards, Grandmaster 08:24, 10 February 2011 (UTC)

I am following the reappearance of User:Grandmaster and it is clear that he is harassing other users who he tries to eliminate from WP through the fabrication of bogus accusations of sockpuppetry. What remedies exist to stop User:Grandmaster and others like him from attacking others in his efforts to push POV? Xebulon (talk) 17:08, 10 February 2011 (UTC)

Peter Damian back

• Peter Damian VI (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log)

• Peter Damian VII (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log)

• 86.144.31.87 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · filter log · WHOIS · RDNS · RBLs · http · block user · block log)

Edit warring. -- Brangifer (talk) 08:18, 10 February 2011 (UTC)

Ahem, there is no edit warring. I have made some much needed corrections to an important article. Best Peter Damian VII (talk) 09:16, 10 February 2011 (UTC)