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== Tawkerbot2 bug fix ==

Ok, the lead dev on on the bot [[User:Joshbuddy|joshbuddy]] just applied a patch to it but obviously its pretty hard to tell if the bot won't commit anything while being blocked, I asked freakofnurture to remove the block as it should be patched, if it goes wonkers again feel free to reblock and I'll know the patch didn't work. -- [[User:Tawker|Tawker]] 20:00, 13 March 2006 (UTC)

== Astronomical catalog ==

Hello. I invite you to come discuss these pages at [[Wikipedia:Village pump (miscellaneous)#Astronomical catalogue]]. [[User:Ewlyahoocom|Ewlyahoocom]]

== User talk:Hamedog ==

[[User talk:Hamedog]] is complaining about your block of him. Could you take a look.--[[User:Commander Keane|Commander Keane]] 14:16, 14 March 2006 (UTC)

:Yes, I am aware of the wikipedia blocy policy - warnings are not usually given for deliberate vandalism intended to discredit Wikipedia - but [[Wikipedia:Administrator intervention against vandalism]] also states "Before listing a vandal here make sure that:

The vandal has been warned with the appropriate warning templates. If you can't justify leaving these messages on a user's talk page, it likely isn't vandalism"

Also vandalism states: If the edit is clearly vandalism, consider starting with {{tl|test2}}.

I also site : Don't disregard policy. Reverting vandalism doesn't grant you any special status nor does it make you superior. Egregious abuse of policy may get you blocked, as well as the vandal. If you're an admin, do not abuse your granted powers. Finally, Ignore all rules shouldn't be invoked if you don't have other arguments to back yourself up with.

You should of looked at my contribs and userpage and atleast told me on my talk page y you blocked me. Also, where should I ask that type of question? --<small>[[User:Hamedog|Hamedog]]<sup>[[User talk:Hamedog|Talk]]|[[Special:Emailuser/Hamedog|@]]</sup></small> 23:30, 14 March 2006 (UTC)

==Curpsbot block==
I was going to unblock you but Firefox beat me to it... -- [[User:Curps|Curps]] 20:49, 14 March 2006 (UTC)
:K, but we have a problem. I ended up getting past your filters. See: [[User:FireFox]] --<font color="orange"><strike>''[[User:Rory096|Rory]]''<font color="green">[[WP:EA|0]]</font>'''[[User talk:Rory096|96]]'''</strike></font> 20:53, 14 March 2006 (UTC)
::You intentionally (jokingly) made a certain type of edit for which the trigger threshold is particularly low (some types of vandalism are more damaging than others, so sometimes monitoring is conservative and sometimes it's not). -- [[User:Curps|Curps]] 21:22, 14 March 2006 (UTC)
:::Wait, did you just say Squidbot isn't very damaging? --<font color="orange"><strike>''[[User:Rory096|Rory]]''<font color="green">[[WP:EA|0]]</font>'''[[User talk:Rory096|96]]'''</strike></font> 21:26, 14 March 2006 (UTC)
::::I think I said the opposite. -- [[User:Curps|Curps]] 22:07, 14 March 2006 (UTC)
:::::Hmm, good point, you did. Anyway, what would happen if the Squidward vandal got smarter, and then just put a <nowiki><!-tag like this--></nowiki> in his edits? It would bypass everything we have to protect ourselves against him... --<font color="orange"><strike>''[[User:Rory096|Rory]]''<font color="green">[[WP:EA|0]]</font>'''[[User talk:Rory096|96]]'''</strike></font> 01:21, 15 March 2006 (UTC)
::::::Not sure I'm following you. We'll see. He can't trust all of his proxies, can he. -- [[User:Curps|Curps]] 01:38, 15 March 2006 (UTC)
:::::::Did you see what I did on [[User:FireFox|FireFox]]'s user page? I managed to get the Image:Squid.jpg on there. --<font color="orange"><strike>''[[User:Rory096|Rory]]''<font color="green">[[WP:EA|0]]</font>'''[[User talk:Rory096|96]]'''</strike></font> 01:45, 15 March 2006 (UTC)
::::::::OK I misinterpreted entirely. It would be better not to try to trigger things, though, it's unhelpful. -- [[User:Curps|Curps]] 01:54, 15 March 2006 (UTC)
:::::::::I wasn't trying to trigger it, only vandalize! I didn't even know your bot did things like that... --<font color="orange"><strike>''[[User:Rory096|Rory]]''<font color="green">[[WP:EA|0]]</font>'''[[User talk:Rory096|96]]'''</strike></font> 03:18, 15 March 2006 (UTC)

==Thanks==
Thanks for blocking those attack accounts, you're doing an excellent job Curps!! I'll give you a barnstar in a few days time... my own unique one!! --[[User:Sunfazer|&lt;b&gt;&lt;font color=&quot;red&quot;&gt;&#91;&#91;User:Sunfazer&#124;Sunfazer]]➨ &#91;&#91;User_talk:Sunfazer&#124;❝]]&lt;/font&gt;]] 23:12, 14 March 2006 (UTC)

:Yes, thanks again :)--[[User:Shanel|Shanel]] 05:31, 15 March 2006 (UTC)

== new keyword suggestion ==

I just noticed [[User:HPTroll]] which apparently got through your bot net for usernames (which I can understand due to at least one legit usernames with the word troll in it) but I was wondering if it is not economical or possible to add it to your block list could you perhaps consider adding in a feature to hotlist usernames for further review, for example saving them to a user subpage or something so that an admin can check them out and verify one way or another, this would only be necessary for certain ambigous terms and names since blatant ones should be blocked immediately by your bot. Thanks. <small>[[User:Jtkiefer|<font color="red">Jtkiefer</font>]]<sup>[[User talk:Jtkiefer|<font color="orange">T</font>]] | [[Special:Contributions/Jtkiefer|<font color="green">C</font>]] | [[Special:Emailuser/Jtkiefer|<font color="blue">@</font>]]</sup></small> ---- 04:07, 15 March 2006 (UTC)
:P.S. I also wanted to apologize for rallying against your bot. It wasn't until I took a good long look at the block logs and the crap that people try to get away with between usernames and blatant pagemove vandalism that I realized how necessary your bot really is. <small>[[User:Jtkiefer|<font color="red">Jtkiefer</font>]]<sup>[[User talk:Jtkiefer|<font color="orange">T</font>]] | [[Special:Contributions/Jtkiefer|<font color="green">C</font>]] | [[Special:Emailuser/Jtkiefer|<font color="blue">@</font>]]</sup></small> ---- 04:07, 15 March 2006 (UTC)
==Stephen P. Signorelli==
You blocked this account for vandalism, but the history shows zero edits. I am curious - is there something I am missing? Thanks - [[User:KillerChihuahua|KillerChihuahua]]<sup>[[User talk:KillerChihuahua|?!?]]</sup> 22:41, 15 March 2006 (UTC)
:His one edit was to post assumed personal info & a threat against my family/property to my talk page - it was deleted by [[User:Freakofnurture|Freakofnurture]]. - [[User:Chadbryant|Chadbryant]] 22:45, 15 March 2006 (UTC)
::ah, ok thanks. [[User:KillerChihuahua|KillerChihuahua]]<sup>[[User talk:KillerChihuahua|?!?]]</sup> 22:56, 15 March 2006 (UTC)

==[[User:FARVA]]==
This user is an obvious "DickWitham" sock, as can be seen by his contrib history, where he once again removes the DickWitham sock tag from other accounts that he has been locked out of. He has now turned his attention to vandalizing my talk page (see [http://en.wikipedia.org/enwiki/w/index.php?title=User%3AChadbryant&diff=43992336&oldid=43819703]). I do believe this sockpuppet has run its course. - [[User:Chadbryant|Chadbryant]] 03:43, 16 March 2006 (UTC)

:I am not vandalizing your talk page, you silly goose, and the only reason I am removing the sockpuppet tags you keep placing is 1) you are putting one on MY page and 2) you are putting them on a page where you have been told directly by an admin NOT to put it there. --[[User:FARVA|FARVA]] 03:45, 16 March 2006 (UTC)

::You vandalized my user page, and you are removing legitimate "DickWitham" sock tags, as you have done countless times before under your other 130+ accounts. - [[User:Chadbryant|Chadbryant]] 03:52, 16 March 2006 (UTC)

:::Okay, first of all, I didn't vandalize your page, I merely put a template in that I thought existed and was unaware of the fact that it did not. It was your priority and choice to remove it or not remove it; frankly, given what you've done to MY user page on a continual basis, I think you owe me some leeway on that. Even if YOU don't think so, *I* do, and so we'll leave it at agreeing to disagree.

:::Second of all, you grazed right over the fact that you have been told not to place a sockpuppet tag on one particular account. Let's just forget about the fact..no, actually, let's NOT forget about the fact that a good 40% of your user history contributions are placing sockpuppet tags. What does that say about you, besides the fact that you might be a bit paranoid or trolling? Now as to who this "DickWitham" person is, I have no idea. I have not had 130+ accounts on this site, this is my only one, if you do not believe me then that is your choice. I will know the truth, at least. --[[User:FARVA|FARVA]] 04:10, 16 March 2006 (UTC)

== User:195.39.132.53 ==

Hi, I just found out that I have blocked [[User:195.39.132.53]] for 24 hours just after you had imposed the indefinite block. Sorry about that. You are welcome to unblock it and re-block indefinitely if you have your reason to do so. Thanks. --[[User:BorgQueen|BorgQueen]] 17:25, 16 March 2006 (UTC)

== Did you get my email? ==

I really have no interest in my misdeeds remaining extant, and will revert all of them if my [[m:Right to vanish|Right to vanish]] is granted. [[User:MC31606|MC31606]] 18:58, 16 March 2006 (UTC)

==Block==
Thanks. Wasn't looking forward to joinging that particular religion... [[User:DJ Clayworth|DJ Clayworth]] 23:07, 16 March 2006 (UTC)
==IRC==
I'm only assuming that this is not you, .se being Sweden, all times U.S. Central (UTC -6):
[06:31] * Joins: Curps_away (n=chatzill@1-1-1-26a.lio.sth.bostream.se)
...
[06:32] * Curps_away is now known as Curps
...
[06:38] <Curps> hello all wp users
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[06:42] * Quits: Curps (n=chatzill@1-1-1-26a.lio.sth.bostream.se) (Client Quit)
So I checked it (/whowas) and found it was unregistered, probably just somebody fooling around. If you aren't going to use IRC, you should at least register your name to avoid impersonation in the [irc://irc.freenode.net/wikipedia #wikipedia] channel, as this could be seriously harmful in the event of an elaborate hoax. — <small>Mar. 17, '06</small> <tt class=plainlinks>'''[20:55] <[[user:freakofnurture/ |freakof]][[special:newpages |nu]][[WP:EA |r<sub>x</sub>]][[special:random |ture]][[special:ipblocklist ||]]<font color=002BB8>[{{fullurl:user talk:freakofnurture|action=edit&section=new}} talk]</font>>'''</tt>

:I don't use IRC at all, don't even have an IRC client program on my computers. I'm really not familiar with how IRC does verification of identity; if it doesn't, then you can't rely on any IRC username being who they claim they are. -- [[User:Curps|Curps]] 13:00, 26 March 2006 (UTC)
::As stated above I was almost positive that it was not you, as any name not specifically registered by someone can be used by anybody. My concern is that the other people on the #wikipedia channel might not be aware of that, and thus deceived. Really, you should join us, though. — <small>Mar. 28, '06</small> <tt class=plainlinks>'''[19:09] <[{{fullurl:user:freakofnurture}} freakofnur<sub>x</sub>ture][[special:contributions/freakofnurture||]][{{fullurl:user talk:freakofnurture|action=edit&section=new}} talk]>'''</tt>
:::Where do you guys find the time to spend time on IRC (and mailing lists), on top of everything else? -- [[User:Curps|Curps]] 05:36, 29 March 2006 (UTC)
::::Says the person who's on 24 hours a day... ;) (Note: I use the term "person" lightly) --<font color="orange"><strike>''[[User:Rory096|Rory]]''<font color="green">[[WP:EA|0]]</font>'''[[User talk:Rory096|96]]'''</strike></font> 05:39, 29 March 2006 (UTC)
::::I guess if we all had the same um... software... that you do, we'd have no use for IRC either. As a communication tool though, it's much more effective than talk pages, or mailing lists. — <small>Mar. 30, '06</small> <tt class=plainlinks>'''[02:01] <[{{fullurl:user:freakofnurture}} freakofnur<sub>x</sub>ture][[special:contributions/freakofnurture||]][{{fullurl:user talk:freakofnurture|action=edit&section=new}} talk]>'''</tt>

== new Johnny the Vandal puppet ==

[[User:Johnny_3004]]. I copied the sock-puppet notice from another of his user pages, only to realize that it says that the user has been blocked. As I don't have admin privileges, would you mind blocking this user name as well and thus closing the loophole? Thanks, [[User:Girolamo Savonarola|Girolamo Savonarola]] 17:44, 18 March 2006 (UTC)

== LOL ==

You really blocked a guy named Pelican Shit, thats funny. What did he do? Just vandalize?--[[User:Slipknot222|<font color="DF0001">Slipknot</font>]][[WP:EA|<font color="green">2</font>]][[User talk:Slipknot222|<font color="DF0001"><span style="cursor:help;">22</span></font>]] 18:13, 18 March 2006 (UTC)
:See [[Wikipedia:Long term abuse/Mr. Pelican Shit]]. --[[User:CesarB|cesarb]] 22:59, 18 March 2006 (UTC)

== Hucz ==

Hey yeah, sorry about the Hilary Duff thing, I was running to mainly windows and I edited the wron article...wont happen again. Also, I know my last Aladdin (Super Nintendo) article was the same as my [[Blaster Master 2]] article, but i was only just copying the code I used from Blaster Master 2 and I was gonna replace the info. on the Aladdin article later, but I think you deleted it...

==Please stop assuming bad faith==
I'm asking you to turn off your pagemove block bot. Admins are getting tired of unblocking the false positives. --[[User:SPUI|SPUI]] ([[User talk:SPUI|talk]] - <small>[[User:SPUI/SFD|don't use sorted stub templates!]]</small>) 11:37, 20 March 2006 (UTC)

:I asked (at WP:AN or WP:AN/I) whether your username should be permanently whitelisted, and in general the replies were not really in your favor. For a non-emergency it's hardly absolutely necessary to carry out page moves at such high speed, and doing it as part of a recurring pagemove war with several other users is even less justifiable. Unblocking you is not all that much trouble (two mouse clicks)... what admins and non-admins are really tired of is pagemove wars. Surely you could resort to discussion and perhaps a survey or voting as a last resort rather than pagemove wars. Perhaps you could consider whether the other side's position has some merit: after all, we have [[American Civil War]] and not "Civil War (America)", [[American football]] and not "Football (America)". But overall it seems like a big move war over a trivial difference. -- [[User:Curps|Curps]] 12:51, 26 March 2006 (UTC)

==Blocking Bot==
Is your vandal blocking bot off, I've been missing it, during the last couple vandalbot attacks it didn't seem to be active... -- [[User:Tawker|Tawker]] 15:35, 20 March 2006 (UTC)

:Must have been a glitch. -- [[User:Curps|Curps]] 12:51, 26 March 2006 (UTC)

== [[User:RoberTJFox/VIVE LA REVOLUTION]] ==

Hi. I'm not advocating the article, but I don't see which bit of [[WP:DEL|deletion policy]] qualified [[User:RoberTJFox/VIVE LA REVOLUTION]] which I moved from [[VIVE LA REVOLUTION]] for speedy deletion. It was a personal essay with no evidence of real bad faith, and I'm sure I saw somewhere that these things should be kept in the appropriate namespace, though I can't find it now. Certainly saves an angry user if they didn't save their essay before posting it. [[User:Bigbluefish|BigBlueFish]] 21:29, 20 March 2006 (UTC)

:This is a sockpuppet of a persistent vandal (see [[User:TJWhite]] and a large number of "TJ" sockpuppets). There is plenty of bad faith: he has been vandalizing a number of articles (apparently chosen randomly) by posting copies of this "essay" over them. -- [[User:Curps|Curps]] 21:35, 20 March 2006 (UTC)

::Ah, thanks for the clarification. It was the sockpuppetry that made it look so isolated. That's where the {{[[Template:sockpuppet|sockpuppet]]}} template helps (I've added it now). [[User:Bigbluefish|BigBlueFish]] 20:54, 21 March 2006 (UTC)

== Re:vandal reversion ==

Whoa, I don't know how THAT happened. Freak accident, probably. Thanks for pointing it out; I'll be more careful in the future. [[User:Buchanan-Hermit|<span style="font-size: 13px; color: #3366FF;">Buchanan-H</span>]][[Wikipedia:Esperanza|<span style="font-size: 13px; color: green;">e</span>]][[User:Buchanan-Hermit|<span style="font-size: 13px; color: #3366FF;">rmit™</span>]]..[[Special:Contributions/Buchanan-Hermit|<span style="font-size: 8px; color: #669900;">CONTRIBS</span>]]..[[User talk:Buchanan-Hermit|<span style="font-size: 8px; color: #669900;">SPEAK!</span>]] 02:24, 21 March 2006 (UTC)

== [[User:LALALALALA]] ==

Hi, Curps. You recently idef blocked [[User::LALALALALA]]. I indef blocked him a few seconds later and added a permanently blocked tag to his user page. He has posted the following on his user page: "I am sorry I was acting childish and I want to contribute positively to wikipedia." I'm going to assume AGF and unblock him. I just wanted to let you know what's going on. Thanks. &mdash;[[User:Wayward|Wayward]] <small><sup><font color="#6BA800">[[User talk:Wayward|Talk]]</font></sup></small> 02:32, 22 March 2006 (UTC)

I see that variations of this user name have been used to vandalize before. I have reinstated the indef block. Thanks. &mdash;[[User:Wayward|Wayward]] <small><sup><font color="#6BA800">[[User talk:Wayward|Talk]]</font></sup></small> 02:38, 22 March 2006 (UTC)

== User page blanking and explanations ==

You've blanked a number of userpages without explanation in the edit summaries. This caused me to have to dig around to find the reason why they were blanked before I unblanked them. For three of them ([[User:TJRules]], [[User:ErnesTJones]], and [[User:Gangster Octopus]]) it was because they were indefinitely banned. For a fourth ([[User:Robust Physique]]) I still don't know why you blanked it, and I've unblanked the page. In the future, please leave edit summaries when performing such actions as it saves time of people following in your footsteps. Thanks! --[[User:Durin|Durin]] 14:24, 22 March 2006 (UTC)

:The first two were socks of [[User:TJWhite]], with some kind of manifesto (he keeps vandalizing multiple articles with this, either by adding it directly or redirecting those pages to his socks' userpages, so removing the userpage helps to deal with the latter). Robust Physique has inflammatory userboxes and may be trolling. -- [[User:Curps|Curps]] 05:07, 29 March 2006 (UTC)

== Unicode request. ==

Hi, can you run [[User:Curpsbot-unicodify]] on [[Hindi grammar]]? Let me know if you need anything to help it get set up. Thanks. - [[User:Taxman|Taxman]] <sup><small>[[User talk:Taxman|Talk]]</small></sup> 20:17, 22 March 2006 (UTC)
:Awesome, thanks. - [[User:Taxman|Taxman]] <sup><small>[[User talk:Taxman|Talk]]</small></sup> 17:13, 28 March 2006 (UTC)

==Block==
It seems like I can edit now, but why did you block me? [[User:TJeff|TJeff]] 01:47, 23 March 2006 (UTC)

== is that block real ==

no offense but how could an indefinetly blocked person edit?
Karl Naowaomondhol could still edit his own talk page despite an indef. block. does the indef block apply to his own talk page? [[User:Typer 525|Typer525]] 03:19, 23 March 2006 (UTC)

:A blocked user can still edit their own talk page (unless the talk page gets protected from editing, as a separate step from the block itself). -- [[User:Curps|Curps]] 03:39, 23 March 2006 (UTC)
::Exactly19:15, 23 March 2006 (UTC)~

==Bill Gates==
I'm not saying, and I don't believe, that Gates is a criminal, nor that he got rich by cheating or breaking the law. All I'm saying is that a lot of people see him that way, and that bears a mention in the intro just as "intelligence and foresight" do.

Also, I'm not just referring to accusations of enrichment at the expense of competitors, but customers as well. [[User:Gazpacho|Gazpacho]] 05:11, 23 March 2006 (UTC)

:There's not a single major corporation that doesn't run into litigation and regulatory action on a regular basis. The term "illegal" more properly applies to Enron, Tyco, WorldCom etc. where there are actual criminal prosecutions, not regulatory litigation. Don't forget that folks like Joel Klein are, fundamentally, politicians, in the sense that major high-profile cases with lots of opportunity press conference face time are a launching pad for future political ambitions and they have every incentive to talk it up and create headlines. I'm no fan of Microsoft or Bill Gates (though he gets points for his more recent philanthropy), but the wording in the article is just way out of whack. -- [[User:Curps|Curps]] 06:29, 23 March 2006 (UTC)

==[[Template:PD-NCGov]]==
You are confusing [[free as in beer]] and [[free as in freedom]]. I have taken it to TFD. --[[User:SPUI|SPUI]] ([[User talk:SPUI|talk]] - <small>[[User:SPUI/SFD|don't use sorted stub templates!]]</small>) 19:10, 23 March 2006 (UTC)

==Request for bot==
Please run your bot on the page [[Hindi grammar]] to covert its html entities directly into the [[devanagari]] script.[[User:Magicalsaumy|Cygnus_hansa]] 15:57, 24 March 2006 (UTC)

== Thanks ==

Thanks for reverting my userpage. I was gonna do it myself but man, you're quick. :) [[User:Buchanan-Hermit|<span style="font-size: 13px; color: #3366FF;">Buchanan-H</span>]][[Wikipedia:Esperanza|<span style="font-size: 13px; color: green;">e</span>]][[User:Buchanan-Hermit|<span style="font-size: 13px; color: #3366FF;">rmit™</span>]]..[[Special:Contributions/Buchanan-Hermit|<span style="font-size: 8px; color: #669900;">CONTRIBS</span>]]..[[User talk:Buchanan-Hermit|<span style="font-size: 8px; color: #669900;">SPEAK!</span>]] 01:45, 25 March 2006 (UTC)

== WHAT??? ==
WHY IN THE HELL DID YOU BAN ME!!!! I'VE NEVER EVEN EDITED A FREAKING PAGE BEOFRE AND IT SAID YOU'D BLOCKED ME, SORRY??? WHAT GOOD DOES SORRY DO ME WHEN RANDOM PEOPLE BAN ME????

:You were affected by an autoblock. Autoblocks often affect AOL users, due to the way AOL allocates IP addresses. -- [[User:Curps|Curps]] 04:23, 25 March 2006 (UTC)

== [[User talk:Coyotee urso roland peel Sanders]] requesting an unblock ==

You must have blocked him in the frenzy during the WoW/NCV/whatever account creation, where he got flagged for "eel" in his name, but he appears to be uninvolved. Can you check it out? --<font color="orange"><strike>''[[User:Rory096|Rory]]''<font color="green">[[WP:EA|0]]</font>'''[[User talk:Rory096|96]]'''</strike></font> 06:27, 25 March 2006 (UTC)

:I unblocked (back on the 25th, but not noted here until now). -- [[User:Curps|Curps]] 05:00, 29 March 2006 (UTC)

== Ptolemy disambiguation ==

Hi there. As you created the [[Ptolemy (disambiguation)]] page, I thought you might like to see what it looks like now! I've been doing a bit of work on it, and also on the page [[Ptolemaic]] and I also discovered the page [[Ptolemais]] and intend to tidy that up. One thing I wanted to ask someone, was whether adding this short amount of context (essentially dates and location) is helpful. I find it helpful for disambiguation pages to have essential stuff (the stuff that differentiates the different entries) on the disambiguation page. This avoid people having to click through to each one to see what the differences are. Would you have time to advise on this? Also, now that the Ptolemy disambigation page is getting so large, maybe [[Ptolemaic]] should be merged with it and replaced by a redirect? [[User:Carcharoth|Carcharoth]] 16:40, 25 March 2006 (UTC)

:It looks pretty good. As you mention, each entry in the disambiguation page should have enough information so that anyone looking for a specific entry will immediately know which one to click. A little extra detail is better than too little information. [[Ptolemaic]] could probably be redirected to [[Ptolemy (disambiguation)]]. -- [[User:Curps|Curps]] 04:59, 29 March 2006 (UTC)

==Re: legislative assembly==
Okay that is fine, but why all this excitement suddenly over this article? --[[user:Anonymous editor|<font color="green">'''a.n.o.n.y.m'''</font>]] <sup>[[user talk:Anonymous editor| ''t'']]</sup> 19:10, 25 March 2006 (UTC)

:Ok. I thought you thought I was anti Quebec or something :). First I didn't know it was called National Assembly and then when I italicised it was to show that it was named that. --[[user:Anonymous editor|<font color="green">'''a.n.o.n.y.m'''</font>]] <sup>[[user talk:Anonymous editor| ''t'']]</sup> 19:16, 25 March 2006 (UTC)

::It's simply a question of accuracy... that's what its name is, and that's what English-language media refer to it as. Italics aren't usually used in such contexts as per our usual manual of style (especially in encyclopedic writing, where it is very common to present new bluelinked terms in nearly every sentence). I'm a bit puzzled since your user page indicates you're Canadian and have a good command of French, so I thought you were familiar with it and were perhaps making a POV edit. -- [[User:Curps|Curps]] 19:30, 25 March 2006 (UTC)

::No nothing out of POV. We just call it the Quebec Parliament in non French Canada. I was a little shocked when you used rollback but I understand now. --[[user:Anonymous editor|<font color="green">'''a.n.o.n.y.m'''</font>]] <sup>[[user talk:Anonymous editor| ''t'']]</sup> 19:41, 25 March 2006 (UTC)

:::I thought that the other Canadian provinces still used the term "Legislative Assembly", rather than "Parliament", which is used only by the Canadian federal government. I think the reason Quebec went with the name "National Assembly" is simply because they copied the name from France's National Assembly. Anyways, you can confirm that the term National Assembly is widely used in English by looking up English media such as the ''[[Montreal Gazette]]'' (an English-language newspaper in Montreal). I'm not sure what other Canadian newspapers use in places like Toronto, since I haven't researched other Canadian topics, but within Quebec I'm pretty sure they use "National Assembly" as only name in English (official use or common use). -- [[User:Curps|Curps]] 20:07, 25 March 2006 (UTC)

::::Legislative Assembly is the government word for it, but provincial parliament is used widely. For example members are called the Members of the Provincial Parliament. So I guess that Quebec Parliament is used often too. --[[user:Anonymous editor|<font color="green">'''a.n.o.n.y.m'''</font>]] <sup>[[user talk:Anonymous editor| ''t'']]</sup> 20:21, 25 March 2006 (UTC)

:::::Not really, to the best of my knowledge. The name "Hôtel du Parlement" can be used in French, but only for the building; the legislative body (the gathering of legislators, collectively) is the National Assembly. This is similar to the US: the Capitol is the name of the building, but the Congress is the name of the legislative branch that sits in the building. If you Google "Quebec Parliament" the relatively small number of hits will nearly all reference the building, and the hit count is far smaller than for "Quebec National Assembly" (I get ~1000 vs. ~55,000). -- [[User:Curps|Curps]] 20:47, 25 March 2006 (UTC)
:::I seems that it works differently in Quebec than other provinces where "provincial parliament" is very much used instead of "Legislative assembly". In Quebec the National Assembly and the Lieutenant-Governor form the "Parliament of Quebec". But yes I didn't know that's what they called their legislative body in Quebec. --[[user:Anonymous editor|<font color="green">'''a.n.o.n.y.m'''</font>]] <sup>[[user talk:Anonymous editor| ''t'']]</sup> 21:00, 25 March 2006 (UTC)

== User:Avalanch707 ==

You indefinitely blocked [[Special:Contributions/Avalanch707|Avalanch 707]] after he or she made just ''one'' edit! The user had no discussion page, no block history of anything like that! I think your indefinite block was a bit rash. Can't you just speak to her and tell her it's an encyclopedia? I was actually surprised to see that done.

P.S. I'm meant to be on [[Wikipedia:Wikiholiday|Wikibreak]] but when I saw that it really did surprise me. Thanks--[[User:M Johnson|M Johnson]] <small>([[User talk:M Johnson|talk]] • [[Special:Contributions/M Johnson|contribs]])</small> 23:55, 25 March 2006 (UTC)

:We have lots and lots of throwaway sockpuppets nowadays used for a single hit-and-run vandalism edit. Dozens every day for the featured article, in case you haven't noticed. If someone creates a throwaway sockpuppet for the purpose of vandalism and then vandalizes with it, well, they've thrown it away. Naturally, we block these, there's no point in leaving known vandal socks lying around as sleepers. -- [[User:Curps|Curps]] 00:05, 26 March 2006 (UTC)

::Somehow that looks like a [[WP:BITE]] to me. Unless this user's some notorious sockpuppet, I think a <nowiki>{{subst:test}}</nowiki> on his talkpage will do? - ''Best regards'', [[User:Mailer diablo|Mailer Diablo]] 01:27, 26 March 2006 (UTC)

:::Well, maybe he had the misfortune of making his first edit a vandalism edit right in the middle of a flurry of other throwaway-sockpuppet vandalism: [[User:Buckshotzzz|{{{2|Buckshotzzz}}}]] ([[User talk:Buckshotzzz|talk]] • [[Special:Contributions/Buckshotzzz|contribs]]), [[User:Robotime|{{{2|Robotime}}}]] ([[User talk:Robotime|talk]] • [[Special:Contributions/Robotime|contribs]]), [[User:Its Saturday, Its Saturday|{{{2|Its Saturday, Its Saturday}}}]] ([[User talk:Its Saturday, Its Saturday|talk]] • [[Special:Contributions/Its Saturday, Its Saturday|contribs]]) and dozens of others. There hasn't been any e-mail; if I get one I'll certainly consider unblocking. In general though, vandals have figured out a strategy of hit-and-run throwaway-username vandalism, with many dozen throwaway usernames every single day, sometimes several per minute, not to mention the recent Squidward unpleasantness, and in general it has become necessary to block sooner and much more readily in such cases than in previous months. -- [[User:Curps|Curps]] 12:41, 26 March 2006 (UTC)

* Again CURPS, YOU HAVE ASSUMED BAD FAITH, I CONSIDER THIS AN ABUSE OF YOUR POWERS AS AN ADMIN, RATHER THAN WANTING TO HELP PEOPLE IN A CONSTRUCTIVE MANNER YOU SEEM TO BE SIMPLY BLOCKING EVERYONE LEFT AND RIGHT. Sorry about the caps by the way. --[[User:GorillazFanAdam|GorillazFanAdam]] 22:19, 27 March 2006 (UTC)

== block of [[User:GorillazFanAdam]] ==

I've unblocked this user, since I can't see the exact basis of the block, the recent edits appear to be to the sandbox and sandbox templates, which although of questionable taste aren't (in my view) vandalism. --[[User:Pgk|pgk]]<sup>(<font color="mediumseagreen">[[User_talk:Pgk|talk]]</font>)</sup> 02:17, 26 March 2006 (UTC)

I was also wondering what I have done that you consider "vanalism", which by the way I have never been accused of before. It would help me greatly if you would explain your reasoning to me. --[[User:GorillazFanAdam|GorillazFanAdam]] 02:24, 26 March 2006 (UTC)

:The basis was indeed [http://en.wikipedia.org/enwiki/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Sandbox&diff=prev&oldid=45499482], but you can see he's also made other recent trolling edits (eg [http://en.wikipedia.org/enwiki/w/index.php?title=User:Silsor/Neo-nazi_watchlist&diff=prev&oldid=45489282] and has been [http://en.wikipedia.org/enwiki/w/index.php?title=Special:Log&type=block&page=User%3AGorillazFanAdam blocked before and now has been blocked again] (by yet another admin).
:: I was not blocked for that...I was blocked for for vandalizing a "vandal box", which can be found on the user page of [[User:Freakofnurture]].--[[User:GorillazFanAdam|GorillazFanAdam]] 20:58, 27 March 2006 (UTC)
:::Which block are you referring to here? -- [[User:Curps|Curps]] 21:05, 27 March 2006 (UTC)
:::: The "trolling" block, it was not for adding Moses to the list, it was for vandalizing a "vandal box".--[[User:GorillazFanAdam|GorillazFanAdam]] 22:03, 27 March 2006 (UTC)
:In context, in an anatomical article, it's a legitimate image; in the featured article page, it would be outright vandalism; in the sandbox, it's a little less clearcut but still vandalism: the sole purpose was to subject other users to unexpected shock images in a context where you wouldn't anticipate finding them. We had the "super cool" vandal some months back who kept putting a feces image in the sandbox, and that was certainly vandalism. -- [[User:Curps|Curps]] 03:30, 26 March 2006 (UTC)
* You assumed bad faith in my case, it was not to "shock" anyone at all, simply testing out the embedded image feature. --[[User:GorillazFanAdam|GorillazFanAdam]] 22:08, 27 March 2006 (UTC)


:templates substituted by a bot as per [[Wikipedia:Template substitution]] [[User:Pegasusbot|Pegasusbot]] 08:02, 26 March 2006 (UTC)

== Caron/hacek vote ==

There's a vote on [[Talk:caron]] where the article should be if you're interested. +[[User:Hexagon1|Hexagon1]] ([[User_talk:Hexagon1|talk]]) [[Image:Flag of Australia.svg|30px]] 10:11, 26 March 2006 (UTC)

== your block of [[user:Woolymarmot|Woolymarmot]] ==

Hello, Curps - I've noticed that you've blocked [[User:Woolymarmot|{{{2|Woolymarmot}}}]] ([[User talk:Woolymarmot|talk]] • [[Special:Contributions/Woolymarmot|contribs]]) as a likely sock puppet of MARMOT. However, it seems that this account could have been created by a newbie, so I've unblocked it. --[[User:Ixfd64|Ixfd64]] 20:31, 26 March 2006 (UTC)

:OK, no problem. -- [[User:Curps|Curps]] 22:47, 26 March 2006 (UTC)

== help please ==

Can you do something about [[User:172.168.89.206|172.168.89.206]]. His actions on [[Goce Delchev]], [[Dame Gruev]] and Category:Macedonian revolutionaries speak for themselves. Also note that a bunch of the same edits were made recently by similar IPs from a dynamic IP pool sugesting very strongly that it's the same person. Finaly can you revert him on [[Goce Delchev]] coz I did 3 times already. Regards --[[User:Realek|Realek]] 01:17, 27 March 2006 (UTC)

== Request for page protection ==

Hey Curps,

Would you be able to ''please'' protect the [[Iranian peoples]] page? There's a full-scale revert war going on right now, I already added a request at [[WP:RPP]]. Thanks. --[[User:Khoikhoi|Khoikhoi]] 06:52, 27 March 2006 (UTC)

:I'm not really familiar with the background of the dispute. -- [[User:Curps|Curps]] 06:58, 27 March 2006 (UTC)

== hi ==

[[User:Shadin|Shadin]] 14:58, 27 March 2006 (UTC)

==[[User:Basementscreams]]==
Do you really think Basementscreams deserves a Username block? [[User:Zoe]]|[[User talk:Zoe|<sup>(talk)</sup>]] 18:55, 27 March 2006 (UTC)

:Well, go ahead and unblock if you wish. -- [[User:Curps|Curps]] 21:04, 27 March 2006 (UTC)

::OK, thanks, I'll try to keep an eye on him. [[User:Zoe]]|[[User talk:Zoe|<sup>(talk)</sup>]] 01:14, 28 March 2006 (UTC)

=="oops"?==
what happened? your bot is usually pretty good at that--[[User:64.12.117.5|64.12.117.5]] 22:09, 27 March 2006 (UTC)
*as long as I have you here, would mind undoing [[User talk:Fuck Me That Sux|this ip autoblock]], collateral from a denial of service vandal--[[User:64.12.117.5|64.12.117.5]] 22:30, 27 March 2006 (UTC)

It was right after I changed something, there was a typo. The IP address should be unblocked now. -- [[User:Curps|Curps]] 22:44, 27 March 2006 (UTC)

== [[John Kerry]] ==

You/your bot screwed this up pretty bad. Please examine diffs in the history. I am generally appreciative of what you do, but this exposes a major flaw/oversight on your part. Yes, it looked like blanking, but the truuncated version was much better than vandalized one. I left a clear edit summary, knowing that the article would be truncated due to my browser, but wanting to get the vandalism out of the way. I assumed that someone like yourself would see the edit summary and '''fix it''' instead of perpetuating the vandalism. Bots can be very helpful, but full automation makes huge errors like this. You should always know what you are doing before you make the edit. Also, edit summaries are there for a reason; sometimes they just might clue you in to what's going on, although bots can't read them. &mdash;[[User:WAvegetarian|WAvegetarian]]&bull;<small><sub><sub>[[Special:Contributions/WAvegetarian|CONTRIBUTIONS]]</sub></sub><sup><sup><span style="position: relative; left:-64px; margin-right:-64px;">[[User talk:WAvegetarian|TALK]]</span></sup></sup><big>&bull; </big><sup><sup>[[Special:Emailuser/WAvegetarian|EMAIL]]</sup></sup></small><span style="position: relative; left:+6px; margin-right:+6px;">&bull;</span> 15:14, 28 March 2006 (UTC)

:I disagree entirely. Truncating a vandalized article is hardly any kind of improvement. It merely takes an article in a damaged state and leaves it in a different sort of damaged state. In fact it arguably made things worse, because the original vandalism merely added nonsense without deleting any information, but you deleted a lot of information. And your edit summary ''"rv vandalism, but old browser SOMEONE FIX PLEASE"'' is not at all clear and doesn't explain what you were doing. Making an edit on top of vandalism without restoring the article to a good state is never a good thing, in many cases it just helps to bury the vandalism. I have no idea why you were using an old browser in the first place (the Mediawiki software really should detect and block any browsers that truncate content), but you could have posted to [[WP:AIV]] instead of deliberately truncating the article. Despite your good intentions, the effect of your edit was indistinguishable from vandalism and it was proper to revert it. It's not fair to criticize that the earlier vandalism was not detected as well. -- [[User:Curps|Curps]] 02:54, 29 March 2006 (UTC)

== [[User:The Psycho]] ==

[http://en.wikipedia.org/enwiki/w/index.php?title=User_talk:Jimbo_Wales&diff=next&oldid=45793444 this diff] indicates that's he's most probably a sockpuppet of a user who was blocked by your bot for having an inappropriate user name. He's a new user who's been trolling anyway, no loss if he's disappeared. [[User:Herostratus|Herostratus]] 18:28, 28 March 2006 (UTC)

== [[WP:PP]] ==

Hey! Please try not to overlook adding a page you protect to the list of currently protected pages at [[WP:PP]]. Thanks a bunch. &middot; [[User:Katefan0|'''Katefan0''']]<sup>[[User talk:Katefan0|(scribble)]]</sup>/<small>[[User:Katefan0/Poll|poll]]</small> 21:31, 28 March 2006 (UTC)

:There's a bit of redundancy, since it also shows up in the category, and there are several admins who monitor the category (and probably the log) and routinely and automatically un-sprotect the page after two days or so (whether the problem has gone away or not). -- [[User:Curps|Curps]] 03:04, 29 March 2006 (UTC)

== [[User:Damntheirlies]] ==
I beileve you blocked this user without a valid reason, please either consider unblocking him or giving him a reason for the block. It is probably frustrating on his part. --[[User:GorillazFanAdam|GorillazFanAdam]] 01:40, 29 March 2006 (UTC)

:If this user ever gets involved in an editing dispute with other users, that's the sort of username that can inflame the other users involved... they might take it as a challenge to them. But perhaps it's borderline, so I've unblocked. -- [[User:Curps|Curps]] 03:02, 29 March 2006 (UTC)

== Williamo1 ==

Hi, over at the [[Wikipedia:Requests_for_comment/Williamo1]] on the talk page, someone mentioned that the user in question had made two serious legal threats: [http://en.wikipedia.org/enwiki/w/index.php?title=User:Thivierr&diff=prev&oldid=45058755][http://en.wikipedia.org/enwiki/w/index.php?title=User_talk%3AWilliamo1&diff=45053748&oldid=45050306]. I thought that it might make sense to bring these to the attention of an admin. [[User:JoshuaZ|JoshuaZ]] 06:17, 29 March 2006 (UTC)

== Blocked ==

Why do you keep on blocking me? It says vandalism but I can't see what I've done. I've just added to the pages, not wrecked them.
--[[User:ERAGON|ERAGON]] 15:53, 29 March 2006 (UTC)


Looking at this users contrubuation page[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/ERAGON] I see only harmless edits, no reason to be blocked. --[[User:GorillazFanAdam|GorillazFanAdam]] 02:19, 30 March 2006 (UTC)

:This username has never been blocked. He must be affected by an IP block or autoblock. -- [[User:Curps|Curps]] 03:26, 30 March 2006 (UTC)

== [[User:Openthedoor754]] and [[User:Amelia The Weird]] ==

What do you think of these two? Both had a short history of good edits, then suddenly the first one vandalizes, and the second one is editing his userpage. I noticed you permablocked Openthedoor, then undid it; was it because of the same confusion I'm having? --[[User:Golbez|Golbez]] 03:59, 30 March 2006 (UTC)

:I'm not sure about Openthedoor. He made [http://en.wikipedia.org/enwiki/w/index.php?title=United_States&diff=46114964&oldid=46114863 this edit] which appears to be vandalism, but on second look appears to be a mis-revert to the wrong (vandalized) earlier version: [http://en.wikipedia.org/enwiki/w/index.php?title=United_States&diff=46114964&oldid=46114842]. -- [[User:Curps|Curps]] 04:26, 30 March 2006 (UTC)

== [[User: Xchrisblackx]] ==

I am the real Xchrisblackx and would like to ask once I do regain my account will the block you gave my impersanotor stay on my record? B/c I'm sure you realize that my account was hacked I mean who blanks their own page? Well I'll alert you when I regain my account

Thanks again for putting my little hacker buddy under control, Mahogany

:I'm not certain, but blocks probably remain logged indefinitely. Can you provide any more details about how this happened? -- [[User:Curps|Curps]] 16:54, 30 March 2006 (UTC)

::{Note to Curps my account has been taken over before look at the history} Here's exactly how I found that my account was not mine anymore. March 30th morning I went to get on Wikipedia like always before going to work. I typed my password and found my password was wrong. I couldn't believe it, this had happened before!!! Then i went to my page and found everything was normal. I looked at my history and noticed it looked like a edit war had been raging. I then found that instead of the harraser vandal (the vandal/hacker used profanity to everyone)I had a page blanker. I was then asked by [[User: Deckiller]] If i wanted him blocked to control him I of course said yes. And went to contact you, Curps ( Since you were the one who blocked him) I also contacted a few of my "Wiki-pals" and that is pretty well it

The real, Mahogany

== Queen Victoria ==

Well that's just plain daft, innit?!

# Hello [[User:RichardHarrold|RichardHarrold]]. Please stick to Wikipedia article title naming conventions (eg, Anne of Great Britain, etc.) When there's more than one monarch with the same first name, we use Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom, etc. -- [[User:Curps|Curps]] 15:53, 30 March 2006 (UTC)
--[[User:RichardHarrold|RichardHarrold]] 16:42, 30 March 2006 (UTC)

== Warel ==

His last edit may not have been 3rv, he deleted the section entirely which he was previosly reverting to his version of. [[User:JoshuaZ|JoshuaZ]] 23:44, 30 March 2006 (UTC)
:Right, Curps, I think you may have jumped the gun a little reverting that one. The "fact" he removed was one he himself had added, was of limited interest even if true, and who knows if it's true? We'd have to read Ohno's paper to find that out; I'm certainly not inclined to take WAREL's word for it. --[[User:Trovatore|Trovatore]] 23:49, 30 March 2006 (UTC)
:Oh, just to be completely explicit: I'm talking about his edit at [[perfect number]], 23:36 UTC, 30 March 2006. --[[User:Trovatore|Trovatore]] 23:51, 30 March 2006 (UTC)

::I have unblocked, you guys may be right. -- [[User:Curps|Curps]] 23:51, 30 March 2006 (UTC)

== Changing the names ==

*'''Stars''': those are the propor names of the stars. You wouldn't just change the name of Vega to Alpha Lyrae! So stop changing the names.

*'''Galaxy''': They call it Centaurus A and Virgo A. You wouldn't maye Cen A into NGC 5128.

If this continues, i'll get an anministrator!<br>&mdash; <font color="green">[[User:Hurricane Devon|Hurricane Devon]]</font> ( <font color="blue">[[User talk:Hurricane Devon|Talk]]</font> ) 02:45, 31 March 2006 (UTC)

:Vega is a first-magnitude star, and for those stars the traditional name is the most common one (and for a few others like Polaris, Algol, Mira). For the others, the [[Bayer designation]] is more common. It is you that is trying to do renaming, not me.

:Galaxies like M77 or M87 are not the same thing as radio sources associated with galaxies. As the example of Sagittarius A shows, the radio source is often very localized to a very small volume. The radio source is ''not'' the same thing as the galaxy. -- [[User:Curps|Curps]] 03:18, 31 March 2006 (UTC)

== [[Messier 77]] ==

This info I did a few weeks ago has updated acurate info on this galaxy. By changing this, your getting rid of my hard work.<br>&mdash; <font color="green">[[User:Hurricane Devon|Hurricane Devon]]</font> ( <font color="blue">[[User talk:Hurricane Devon|Talk]]</font> ) 03:08, 31 March 2006 (UTC)

:OK, I unreverted the infobox changes, that particular revert was a bit rushed. -- [[User:Curps|Curps]] 03:16, 31 March 2006 (UTC)

== 203.186.xxx.xxx ==

Hallo, this is Deryck again. Can you just unblock all the 203.186.xxx.xxx addresses such that I don't have to use a semi-open proxy every time I use the computers at my home to visit Wikipedia? It's so frustrating. --[[User:Deryck Chan|<font color="green">D</font>]][[User: Deryck Chan/Esperanza|<font color="green">e</font>]][[User: Deryck Chan|<font color="brown">ryc</font>]][[User talk:Deryck Chan|<font color="#007dff">k C.</font>]] 14:26, 31 March 2006 (UTC)

:The best thing would be to contact [[User:Tim Starling]] and ask him to add your ISP to his "XFF Project". If this can be done, then the problem shouldn't recur. -- [[User:Curps|Curps]] 18:26, 31 March 2006 (UTC)

== Thanks ==

...for reverting my user page blanking. Cheers, [[User:Diberri|David Iberri]] ([[User talk:Diberri|talk]]) 21:57, 31 March 2006 (UTC)

== WARNING: APRIL FOOLS DAY IS ALMOST HERE ==

I think we should all be on the lookout during April Fools Day. I know many websites like Maddox's site do April Fools day stunts. And wikipedia is self-editing, so that's something. [[User:DyslexicEditor|DyslexicEditor]] 00:04, 1 April 2006 (UTC)

== Stop blocking me ==

Its desperately annoying, and somewhat distressing as I hadnt done anything wrong to my knowledge [[User:Philc 0780|Philc 0780]] 00:10, 1 April 2006 (UTC)

== Sock Puppet Masters ==

There's a userbox where people say they have sockpuppets. I put it in a category so you can find their sock puppets. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Wikipedia:Sock_Puppet_Master 00:15, 1 April 2006 (UTC)

== RFPP reversion ==

[http://en.wikipedia.org/enwiki/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Requests_for_page_protection&diff=46343352&oldid=46315411] - Who is the Girls Aloud vandal in this situation? Did you mean to remove the Scituate High School section, which seems to be under legitimate attack? --[[User:Golbez|Golbez]] 01:37, 1 April 2006 (UTC)

:No. For some reason I mistakenly edited an old version of that page (re: [[User:Jozdnog]]). -- [[User:Curps|Curps]] 06:15, 1 April 2006 (UTC)

== "''<nowiki>{{Blocked proxy}}</nowiki> or zombie''" ==
your bot has been making a number of strange blocks like that, earlier today it killed an entire AOL range for that reason, and someone else had to undo the indef block it issued--[[User:205.188.117.65|205.188.117.65]] 01:50, 1 April 2006 (UTC)
*[http://en.wikipedia.org/enwiki/w/index.php?title=Special%3ALog&type=block&user=Curps&page=User%3A64.12.116.196 ''this block''] and a whole host of others like it--[[User:205.188.117.65|205.188.117.65]] 01:54, 1 April 2006 (UTC)
:*[http://en.wikipedia.org/enwiki/w/index.php?title=Special%3ALog&type=block&user=Curps&page=User%3ACheckingSomething That's what I was afraid of], your bot indef blocks anyone who uses the word "''squidward''" in an edit summary, calling them a "''<nowiki>{{Blocked proxy}}</nowiki> or zombie''", I suspected as much after looking through the edit histories of the IPs it targeted, and this test confirms it, it seems that your bot has the potential to be turned into the next great AOL denial of service tool, all an AOLdosVandal has to do is use "''squidward''" in an eidt summary, and poof *''indef block''*--[[User:205.188.117.65|205.188.117.65]] 02:13, 1 April 2006 (UTC)

and now for a minor [[WP:POINT]] violation on my behalf, your bot now indef blcok me--[[User:205.188.117.65|205.188.117.65]] 02:15, 1 April 2006 (UTC)
*mmmm, ok, problem solved, your [http://en.wikipedia.org/enwiki/w/index.php?title=Special%3ALog&type=block&user=Curps&page=User%3A205.188.117.65 bot seems to only block AOL IPs for 15 minutes], and apparently that overides the "''SQUIDWARD!!''" blocking feature, I guess the earlier indef block on an AOL was the result of some sort of parsing error that's since been corrected? still looks odd--[[User:64.12.117.5|64.12.117.5]] 02:19, 1 April 2006 (UTC)
:*Only one way to test it, hopefully you'll forgive me one more WP:POINT violation, but I'm going to go to the same page that the [http://en.wikipedia.org/enwiki/w/index.php?title=Special%3ALog&type=block&user=Curps&page=User%3A64.12.116.196 ''64.12.116.196''] ip was on when it triggered the indef block, and use the exact same edit summary, and see if your bot issues an indef block, or a 15 minute block--[[User:64.12.117.5|64.12.117.5]] 02:21, 1 April 2006 (UTC)
::*nothing happened, how odd, oh no, there it goes, it takes a minute or so before it issues blocks, problem solved, the "''15 minute block for AOL''" does in fact overide the "''indef block for squidward''" part of the bot--[[User:64.12.117.5|64.12.117.5]] 02:25, 1 April 2006 (UTC)

*also, have you considered taking a page from tawkerbot's MO, and adding an explanation of block feature, that could leave a short message on the blocked user's talk page explaining the block?--[[User:64.12.117.5|64.12.117.5]] 02:37, 1 April 2006 (UTC)


The squidward blocking is very trigger-happy because squidward vandalism is very rapidfire. I'll adjust it a bit. Regarding AOL denial-of-service attacks, the truth is it's all too easy already anyway. The combination of AOL's policies and software and Wikipedia's policies and software make AOL a suboptimal platform for editing Wikipedia.

-- [[User:Curps|Curps]] 07:02, 1 April 2006 (UTC)

==Funkastophadeliexpialadocious==
Gosh, all that phun that somebody was having: I almost start to feel sorry for having played a small role in putting it to an end. Underline "almost", though -- and I fear that the end is only temporary. -- [[User:Hoary|Hoary]] 08:55, 1 April 2006 (UTC)

==New organization / Tools==

Seen you on the [[Bigfoot]] page. Here is a invite to [[Wikipedia:Paranormal Watchers]] for you.

Also find on my Userpage a set of Wiki-tools that should prove useful to you. Some are Admin in nature. Go ahead and make a copy for your use. Do you have any Wikipedia-links that I could add to those I alrady have ? [[User:Martial Law|Martial Law]] 09:40, 1 April 2006 (UTC) ''':)'''

==[[User:66.229.17.88]]==
Howdy. About a month ago you were apparently involved in blocking and unblocking a persistant vandal. Instead of posting a warning on his page or something at AIV, I just through I'd bring this [http://en.wikipedia.org/enwiki/w/index.php?title=Rush_Limbaugh&diff=prev&oldid=46524772] to your attention. Not sure on how to field it. [[User:Kuru|<font color = "DarkGoldenrod">'''Kuru'''</font>]] [[User talk:Kuru|<font color = "Goldenrod"><sup>''talk''</sup></font>]] 00:49, 2 April 2006 (UTC)

:It might not be the same person. The number of recent edits is not very high, so it's less of a problem, but probably worth keeping an eye on. -- [[User:Curps|Curps]] 03:31, 2 April 2006 (UTC)

== [[User:4.226.225.207]] ==

Curps, Could you do something about this guy? Posting after test4. On [[AIV]]
--[[User:Mkamensek | Mkamensek]] [[User_talk:Mkamensek|<sup>(talk)</sup>]]
-[http://www.leftoverchef.com| The LeftOverChef] 02:25, 2 April 2006 (UTC)

== Dalmatian Kristallnacht ==

Why are you moving the article? Naming convention is pretty clear - there are no google hits for Dalmatian Serb pogrom. Also, the thing was not discussed almost at all???
[[User:Pirkovank|Pirkovank]] 06:12, 2 April 2006 (UTC)

Well, I moved it back to the original name. Note that the same user (DrGonzo) moved article [[Borovo Selo raid]] to the more inflamatory [[Borovo Selo massacre]]. Could you please be impartial then and move it back to the LESS INFLAMATORY title - also, restore the NPOV tag there. If you use a criterium, use it always to all sides equally. Thanks. [[User:Pirkovank|Pirkovank]] 06:19, 2 April 2006 (UTC)

== Reversion ==

Thanks. I had ''just'' gone to block the IP for vandalizing (in response to having a reposted band brag speedily deleted) when you reverted. I went with a very short block (shrug). I figure it's enough to stop them for a bit, as that particular villain appears to have been a long time between "contributions" to Wikipedia. Such are the hazards of trying to cut down the backlog at [[cat:csd]] (which is pretty big most of the time, as we ''appear'' to have a new raft of bored British school children). [[User:Geogre|Geogre]] 19:43, 2 April 2006 (UTC)

==My user page==
*Thanks for reverting the vandalism. --[[User:DMG413|DMG413]] 19:44, 2 April 2006 (UTC)

== Blocking criteria ==

Hello my Curpsy friend, you blocked me for a while (fortunately I was out of town while I was blocked) because I had "misleading edit summaries". If you look at my [[Special:Contributions/NIRVANA2764|contributions]] you will see many elaborate and 'misleading' summaries, but none of my contributions contained the addition of nonsense to an article and never once have I used obscenities (unless you count the words "ho" and "chowderhead"). You are the only user who has ever had a problem with my edit summaries in the time that I have been writing silly things in them. I just want to know why I was blocked if I was honestly contributing to Wikipedia and adding valid information. [[User:NIRVANA2764|NIRVANA2764]] 20:03, 2 April 2006 (UTC)

:Users rely on edit summaries to understand what was changed. If you want to engage in performance art, there's always [[Wikipedia:Sandbox]]. -- [[User:Curps|Curps]] 20:38, 2 April 2006 (UTC)

== Radio sourse names ==

It dosn't matter wether the sourse is part of the galaxy, they still call the galaxy that (i.e [[Cassiopeia A]] & [[Centaurus A]]). Acording to [http://simbad.u-strasbg.fr/sim-id.pl?protocol=html&Ident=For+A&NbIdent=1&Radius=10&Radius.unit=arcmin&CooFrame=FK5&CooEpoch=2000&CooEqui=2000&output.max=all&o.catall=on&output.mesdisp=N&Bibyear1=1983&Bibyear2=2006&Frame1=FK5&Frame2=FK4&Frame3=G&Equi1=2000.0&Equi2=1950.0&Equi3=2000.0&Epoch1=2000.0&Epoch2=1950.0&Epoch3=2000.0 this], Fornax A is the (as it puts it) MAIN NAME for [[NGC 1316]]. Same with [http://simbad.u-strasbg.fr/sim-id.pl?protocol=html&Ident=Vir+A&NbIdent=1&Radius=10&Radius.unit=arcmin&CooFrame=FK5&CooEpoch=2000&CooEqui=2000&output.max=all&o.catall=on&output.mesdisp=N&Bibyear1=1983&Bibyear2=2006&Frame1=FK5&Frame2=FK4&Frame3=G&Equi1=2000.0&Equi2=1950.0&Equi3=2000.0&Epoch1=2000.0&Epoch2=1950.0&Epoch3=2000.0 Virgo A] and [http://simbad.u-strasbg.fr/sim-id.pl?protocol=html&Ident=Cen+A&NbIdent=1&Radius=10&Radius.unit=arcmin&CooFrame=FK5&CooEpoch=2000&CooEqui=2000&output.max=all&o.catall=on&output.mesdisp=N&Bibyear1=1983&Bibyear2=2006&Frame1=FK5&Frame2=FK4&Frame3=G&Equi1=2000.0&Equi2=1950.0&Equi3=2000.0&Epoch1=2000.0&Epoch2=1950.0&Epoch3=2000.0 Centaurus A]. I think if you want to talk about the main radio sourse, thet should call it Virgo A* like [[Sagittarius A*]] (more or less, they call Vir A's sourse the '''''Smoking Gun'''''). But would you rename Centaurus A into NGC 5128 or change Sagittarius A into AX J1745.6-2900. &mdash; <font color="green">[[User:Hurricane Devon|Hurricane Devon]]</font> ( <font color="blue">[[User talk:Hurricane Devon|Talk]]</font> )[[Image:Cyclone Temporary.png|25px]] 01:14, 3 April 2006 (UTC)

:But let me say this, Messier 77's name isn't Cetus A. That was a mistake. LOL, see [http://simbad.u-strasbg.fr/sim-id.pl?protocol=html&Ident=M77&NbIdent=1&Radius=10&Radius.unit=arcmin&CooFrame=FK5&CooEpoch=2000&CooEqui=2000&output.max=all&o.catall=on&output.mesdisp=N&Bibyear1=1983&Bibyear2=2006&Frame1=FK5&Frame2=FK4&Frame3=G&Equi1=2000.0&Equi2=1950.0&Equi3=2000.0&Epoch1=2000.0&Epoch2=1950.0&Epoch3=2000.0 this]<br>&mdash; <font color="green">[[User:Hurricane Devon|Hurricane Devon]]</font> ( <font color="blue">[[User talk:Hurricane Devon|Talk]]</font> )[[Image:Cyclone Temporary.png|25px]] 01:16, 3 April 2006 (UTC)

::They also call it [[Sextans A]], [[Camelopardalis A]], [[Sextans B]], and [[Sextans C]]. &mdash; <font color="green">[[User:Hurricane Devon|Hurricane Devon]]</font> ( <font color="blue">[[User talk:Hurricane Devon|Talk]]</font> )[[Image:Cyclone Temporary.png|25px]] 01:33, 3 April 2006 (UTC)


For some cases, the radio source may have been discovered first and only later the optical counterpart was discovered, in which case it may have made sense to the astronomers involved to give the galaxy a common name based on the radio source. But definitely for Messier objects (like Messier 77 and 87, as you mention) the galaxy already has a very well-known name. -- [[User:Curps|Curps]] 07:13, 3 April 2006 (UTC)

== Yeah ==

Yeah, I made a typo. But you have to leave it as 'committe' or the tempalte wont work. Not worth it to fix it. [[User:Savidan|savidan]]<sup>[[User_talk:Savidan|(talk)]] [[Wikipedia:Esperanza|<span style="color:#008000;">(e@)</span>]]</sup> 06:32, 3 April 2006 (UTC)

:Dude, I done told you. Stop fixing my "typos". Please. [[User:Savidan|savidan]]<sup>[[User_talk:Savidan|(talk)]] [[Wikipedia:Esperanza|<span style="color:#008000;">(e@)</span>]]</sup>`

::Again, I apologize, but your selective fixing of my typos is aggravating me. It's making it harder for me to add this template. The typo doesn't matter as it is invisible to the end user. If you must change it, wait until I'm finished. [[User:Savidan|savidan]]<sup>[[User_talk:Savidan|(talk)]] [[Wikipedia:Esperanza|<span style="color:#008000;">(e@)</span>]]</sup> 06:47, 3 April 2006 (UTC)

:::Fortunately, a move doesn't change the functionality of a template. All you have done is create a lot of double redirects...though. Sigh. I'll have to change my formatting then...I hope that you are truthful when you say all of them. Sigh. [[User:Savidan|savidan]]<sup>[[User_talk:Savidan|(talk)]] [[Wikipedia:Esperanza|<span style="color:#008000;">(e@)</span>]]</sup> 06:52, 3 April 2006 (UTC)

::::If you would like to help me with this template, could you add [[:Category: Monetary Policy Committee]] or [[:Category: Monetary Policy Committee members]] to either the start or end template that I created in such a way as it does not put the template itself in the category. Oh, and archive your talk page. [[User:Savidan|savidan]]<sup>[[User_talk:Savidan|(talk)]] [[Wikipedia:Esperanza|<span style="color:#008000;">(e@)</span>]]</sup> 07:13, 3 April 2006 (UTC)

Sorry if I was mean to you the other day. I was kinda stressed out because of the all the errors I was discovering in the template. As I look back on it, you were just trying to help and your contributions were helpful. Hope there's no hard feelings. [[User:Savidan|savidan]]<sup>[[User_talk:Savidan|(talk)]] [[Wikipedia:Esperanza|<span style="color:#008000;">(e@)</span>]]</sup> 19:19, 3 April 2006 (UTC)

== Gastrich sock ==
Hello Curps. Nice to meet you. [[User:Marion1988]] has blanked the Gastrich arbitration page. Regards, [[User:Blnguyen|Blnguyen]] | [[User talk:Blnguyen|Have your say!!!]] 08:14, 3 April 2006 (UTC)


== Sock of Me ==
Hello Curps. I would like you to check out one of my impostors, is it possible if you blocked him? He uses the name $WIFTOAK. That's the second this week. Thanks ;) [[User:Swiftoak|Swiftoak]] 01:08, 4 April 2006 (UTC)

== Survey ==

I am conducting a survey on Wikipedia and would like to invite you to participate in the study. I've posted a message on wikien-l, but here is the [http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.asp?u=276181968078 link] again in case you are not subscribed to that list-serv. Thanks a lot for your time! --[[User:Mermes|Mermes]] 01:58, 4 April 2006 (UTC)

== Thanks ==
Thanks for reverting the vandalism to my page. --[[User:Nlu|Nlu]] ([[User talk:Nlu|talk]]) 16:15, 4 April 2006 (UTC)

== Bot wanted ==
Hi Curps. Can you create a bot for me that will block pagemove vandals and revert their moves?? By the way, keep the good work up!
I just sent you an email! --[[User:Sunfazer|Sunfazer]] 19:31, 4 April 2006 (UTC)
==Can you help please==
I have just put a Dispute tag on [[Minnie Rae]] but have to go out for dinner so can't keep an eye on it Can you have a look please. Ta. [[User:Moriori|Moriori]] 06:25, 5 April 2006 (UTC)

==168.11.96.2==

Hi, this user - 168.11.96.2 - is vandalizing some pages, I noticed it first on [[Portugal]], then I checked his contributions and he is doing several more changes, also thanks for blocking the other IP and for reverting his vandalism in Portugal. [[User:Afonso Silva|Afonso Silva]] 13:51, 5 April 2006 (UTC)

== {{vandal|69.16.213.95}} ==

Bah! I was leaving the block notice, then going to block him! Thanks. <font color="green">[[User:Admrboltz/Esperanza|A]]</font>[[User:Admrboltz|dmrb♉ltz]] <small>([[User talk:Admrboltz|T]] | [[Special:Contributions/Admrboltz|C]] | [http://tools.wikimedia.de/~kate/cgi-bin/count_edits?user=Admrboltz&amp;dbname=enwiki k])</small> 22:21, 5 April 2006 (UTC)

==Vandalism on Friedrich Nietzsche==
I think it is best for you to be aware of the recent subjection of vandalism to the article, and I have so far traced these from the past to moments ago, all following similar patterns: [http://en.wikipedia.org/enwiki/w/index.php?title=Friedrich_Nietzsche&diff=46362910&oldid=46357598]; [http://en.wikipedia.org/enwiki/w/index.php?title=Friedrich_Nietzsche&diff=46198789&oldid=46195033 similar vandalism, different IP], [http://en.wikipedia.org/enwiki/w/index.php?title=Friedrich_Nietzsche&diff=47083466&oldid=47077587 "honest" political distortions], [http://en.wikipedia.org/enwiki/w/index.php?title=Friedrich_Nietzsche&diff=47169555&oldid=47168723 and again]. At any rate, I hope we can find some way to bring a stop to this ridiculousness bent on falsifying Nietzsche's claims and so on. I will try to notify others who have been keen on the article's improvement in the past.<div style="letter-spacing: 0.2em; font-size: 70%;"><sup>—[[User:Igni|IGNIS]]</sup><sub>[[User_talk:Igni|SCRIPTA]]—</sub></div> 00:05, 6 April 2006 (UTC)

== Unblocking ==

Back in February you blocked {{vandal|68.87.64.101}} as an open proxy. I was contacted by someone caught on this block; I talked to [[User:Tawker|Tawker]] who did some magical proxy-checking stuff, and we decided the IP looks safe, so I've unblocked him. Just to let you know, since you were the blocking admin. [[User:Shimgray|Shimgray]] | [[User talk:Shimgray|talk]] | 17:29, 6 April 2006 (UTC)
::It's got a few odd ports like
PORT STATE SERVICE
21/tcp filtered ftp
22/tcp filtered ssh
23/tcp filtered telnet
80/tcp open http
135/tcp filtered msrpc
139/tcp filtered netbios-ssn
443/tcp open https
445/tcp filtered microsoft-ds
553/tcp open pirp
554/tcp open rtsp
593/tcp filtered http-rpc-epmap
707/tcp filtered unknown
4444/tcp filtered krb524

open which is a little unusual for an Comcast consumer IP but 80 appears to be a web server, and I don't see any other common proxy ports there, everything else seems to be normal server ports -- [[User:Tawker|Tawker]] 17:33, 6 April 2006 (UTC)

==[[User:68.64.65.89|68.64.65.89]]==
I unblocked because this is [[User:Sean Black]]'s IP. I noticed you blocked it after once instance of vandalism too. I'm curious as to why, if you don't mind me asking.--[[User:Shanel|Shanel]] 00:31, 7 April 2006 (UTC)

:The article in question was linked prominently (bolded link) from the main page (in the news). Under those circumstances I'm sometimes trigger-happy, as per [[Wikipedia:Blocking policy]] re: "deliberate vandalism intended to discredit Wikipedia", since links off the main page are often the first thing that new users experience after the main page itself and having those in a damaged state certainly makes Wikipedia look bad. Although the featured article is usually the main target for that sort of thing, sometimes that extends to other prominent links on the main page. -- [[User:Curps|Curps]] 00:13, 8 April 2006 (UTC)

==IP address blocks==
The IP address block you made to block [[User:Ihatewikipediafuckthat]] is the Google web proxy! So you've effectively blocked anyone who is using the [[Google Web Accelerator]]! (Oops!) Please undo this block ASAP. See my talk for page for additional information.
NetRange: 64.233.160.0 - 64.233.191.255
CIDR: 64.233.160.0/19
NetName: GOOGLE
NetHandle: NET-64-233-160-0-1
Parent: NET-64-0-0-0-0
NetType: Direct Allocation
NameServer: NS1.GOOGLE.COM
NameServer: NS2.GOOGLE.COM
--[[User:S charette|Stephane Charette]] 07:18, 7 April 2006 (UTC)
:::Hmmm, I hate to say it but those IP's semi fall into the category of open proxy (as it can be used by anyone), it would be best to edit with GWA off (if you can) -- [[User:Tawker|Tawker]] 07:26, 7 April 2006 (UTC)

== [[User talk:72.160.79.227]] ==

Thanks for helping out in that situation. <b><font color="AE1C28">[[User:Jacoplane|jaco]]</font><font color="#21468B">[[User_talk:Jacoplane|plane]]</font></b> 14:34, 7 April 2006 (UTC)

==[[Wikipedia:Administrators%27_noticeboard/Incidents#new_topic|well this is interesting]]==
ins't it?--[[User:Fernblogin|Fernblogin]] 20:23, 7 April 2006 (UTC)
:isn't it?--[[User:Chelloru|Chelloru]] 20:25, 7 April 2006 (UTC)

*added a wikilink so you know what the heck I'm talking about--[[User:Fernblogin|Fernblogin]] 20:31, 7 April 2006 (UTC)


not that you'd actually be able to tell what the heck I'm talking about though, speaking of which, you don't really think I'm sticking [[WP:BEANS|beans up my nose]]? do you?--[[User:Chelloru|Chelloru]] 20:52, 7 April 2006 (UTC)

:You'd need to contact the developers, there's not much I can do. I've already contacted them in the past about another issue I consider somewhat serious, but so far unfixed. -- [[User:Curps|Curps]] 00:24, 8 April 2006 (UTC)
==[[User:Mike rosoft]]==
Yes, sure. I have created the account myself to prevent its use by impostors. I am going temporarily unblock the account, for the purpose of an experiment. (It seems that when I type "infinite" in block length it won't be recorded in [[Special:Ipblocklist]], while when I type "indefinite" it will.) - [[User:Mike Rosoft|Mike Rosoft]] 13:45, 8 April 2006 (UTC)
*Looks like I wasn't right; I just have to type "Mike_rosoft" when searching. - [[User:Mike Rosoft|Mike Rosoft]] 13:52, 8 April 2006 (UTC)

== Userpage edit ==
Hello Curps. Please don't undo my changes to TomYumGoong's userpage - we are friends engaging in a bit of harmless silliness. Thanks! --[[User:Quotidinanity|quo]] 14:39, 8 April 2006 (UTC)

== question about protection of articles ==

hello Curps,

it has been pointed out to me by [[User:nathanrdotcom]] that the article [[Australia national football (soccer) team]] has lately been constantly vandalised by users such as here [http://en.wikipedia.org/enwiki/w/index.php?title=Australia_national_football_%28soccer%29_team&action=history]. My question: shouldn't the article be put under a protection in that case? or is there a proper procedure or hurdles that need to be overcome first before locking? I am new to sysopship, that's why I would appreciate your help and insight, thank you. with kind regards [[User:Gryffindor|<font color="red">Gryffindor</font>]] 14:39, 8 April 2006 (UTC) ps: could you take a look also at this case here [http://en.wikipedia.org/enwiki/w/index.php?title=Image:Rycina_1752_Palac_Branickich.jpg&action=history] and let me know what you think?

== Username blocks ==

Seriously Curps, how do you catch and block inappropriate usernames all within about 15 seconds? If you became a cop there'd be no criminals left after a month!

== Thanks for the revert ==

Thank you for picking up the vandalism on my userpage - tis appreciated. I think I may have inadvertently become involved in something rather serious! Cheers --[[User: Evan C|Evan C]] ([[User talk: Evan C|Talk]]) 11:26, 9 April 2006 (UTC)

==Revert==
Thanks for reverting the vandalism on my talk page! [[User:beneaththelandslide|michael]] <sup>[[User_talk:beneaththelandslide|talk]]</sup> 15:33, 9 April 2006 (UTC)

==My Vandalism Revert==
Thanks for the message, I was in the middle of typing one to you about it. I was trying out the VandalProof tool, but there's a script bug that wasn't letting me rollback properly. I moved over to my browser to fix it but you caught it already. Thanks for the work! [[User:TKE|<font color="maroon">'''T'''</font>]] [[User talk:TKE|<font color="gray">'''K'''</font>]] [[Special:Contributions/TKE|<font color="maroon">'''E'''</font>]] 06:44, 10 April 2006 (UTC)

== Thanks ==
Thanks for reverting the vandalism on my page. --[[User:Nlu|Nlu]] ([[User talk:Nlu|talk]]) 16:13, 10 April 2006 (UTC)

== Nice catch ==

[[Image:ThumbsUp.jpg|thumb|88px|left|Thumbs Up]]
on the [[Esther Hicks]] vandalism. [[User:Carptrash|Carptrash]] 16:42, 10 April 2006 (UTC)

==Kudos==
You are one hard-working admin, and I cannot count the number of times I have seen:

Rollback failed

Cannot rollback last edit of Foo by XXX.XXX.XXX.XX (Talk); someone else has edited or rolled back the page already.

Last edit was by Curps (Talk).

I just wanted to let you know your hard work is highly appreciated. [[User:KillerChihuahua|KillerChihuahua]]<sup>[[User talk:KillerChihuahua|?!?]]</sup> 18:25, 10 April 2006 (UTC)

== Bot not getting edit summary of Squidward anymore? ==

It missed [http://en.wikipedia.org/enwiki/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia%3AReference%20desk/Science&diff=47998418&oldid=47998081 this one]. --<font color="orange"><strike>''[[User:Rory096|Rory]]''<font color="green">[[WP:EA|0]]</font>'''[[User talk:Rory096|96]]'''</strike></font> 19:30, 11 April 2006 (UTC)

== For the World Is Hollow and I Have Touched the Sky ==

I believe in proper title writing the "Is" would be lowercase like I originally had it - but whatever. [[User:Cyberia23|Cyberia23]] 21:02, 11 April 2006 (UTC)

== Hi Curps ==

I can't believe I'm doing this so late (it's 3:20am here), but I think [[User_talk:Reaper7#Thank you for the laugh|this talk]] deserves your attention. It is a claim by some new user I had welcomed, that his IP has been blocked (by you?) for being used by someone else (for PA?). In the past (check his brief talk above) he had experienced the same problem (he says he's using a library PC). The guy certainly doesn't appear to be a Saint, but I don't know why I tend to believe him (maybe it's his humor). Is it possible that you could give this a look? [[User:NikoSilver|<font color ="white"><font style="background: #777;">&nbsp;<font style="background: #888;">N<font style="background: #999;">i<font style="background: #aaa;">k<font style="background: #bbb;">o<font style="background: #ccc;"><b>S</b></font><b>il</b></font><b>v</b></font><b>e</b></font><b>r</b></font>&nbsp;</font></font>]] <sup><font size="-2">[[User talk:NikoSilver|(T)]] [[Special:Emailuser/NikoSilver|@]] [[Special:Contributions/NikoSilver|(C)]]</font></sup> 00:20, 12 April 2006 (UTC)

== User 203.217.8.30 ==

{{vandal|203.217.8.30}} appears to have been trying to obtain my password. [[User:JoshuaZ|JoshuaZ]] 12:04, 12 April 2006 (UTC)

== Delete Please ==

Please can you delete this [[Craig chapling]]

== 195.93.21.1 blocked ==

Hello. I've just got this message:

: ''Your user name or IP address has been blocked from editing. You were blocked by Curps for the following reason (see our blocking policy): "Autoblocked because your IP address has been recently used by "Paul2001". The reason given for Paul2001's block is: "vandalism"." Your IP address is 195.93.21.1.''

I know I shouldn't admit to this, but I'm using AOL. Shh, don't tell anyone. Anyway, this means that the IP address in question is going to be shared by lots of people other than Paul2001. So I'd be grateful if you could unblock the IP address. Thanks. -- [[User:Oliver Pereira|Oliver P.]] 23:10, 12 April 2006 (UTC)

==Blocking==
As a dynamic ISP user, I'm used to occasional blocking, but it is now every session and for the first time I'm beginning to wonder if editing Wikipedia is worth the effort. Some points:
#Why has it not been made a requirement that editors sign in?
#Why has the suggestion of an hour's delay before new usernames can edit not been implemented (At the moment the vandals can run riot, and only legitimate users suffer)
#As an admin, I can unblock myself -surely there must be many would-be users who are autoblocked, and simply give up - victory to the vandals
#If the mimsy approach to vandals is to continue, can the block page at least contain a link to the actual block, so it's not necessary to trawl through pages of blocks to find the correct one

This whinge isn't directed at you in particular, i know you do a good job - I'm just getting fed up with autoblocking. [[User:Jimfbleak|jimfbleak]] 10:38, 13 April 2006 (UTC)

== important 72.81.120.135 ==

i left a vandalsim message on this users talk page and now he has vandalised all of the articles listed on my user page. he needs banning and pages reverting.

== Cheney piece ==
I don't understand why you found it "trivial". It is an example of the dismal support Cheny & Bush now have in a "time of war". Further, I feel an article in "[[Editor & Publisher]]" supports notablity. -- [[User:Llywrch|llywrch]] 19:48, 13 April 2006 (UTC)

==AOL user blocking==

*Could you be aware please that if you block an AOL user, you are blocking other AOL users from editing too. You blocked someone called Paul2001 apparently, so I can't now edit. Be aware. [[User:The Advocate|The Advocate]] 20:21, 13 April 2006 (UTC)
*Further comment. As at 14.10 on 14 April, your block is still in place. I did a load of amendments on a page I don't want my name appeared to, but when I tried to save them, lo and behold, your block is still preventing me. A waste of my time by you. THINK BEFORE YOU BLOCK AOL USERS: YOU ARE BLOCKING A WHOLE LOAD OF US, BY TRYING TO BLOCK ONE USER, AND WASTING A HELL OF A LOT OF TIME FOR A HELL OF A LOT OF PEOPLE, AND CAUSING GREAT FRUSTRATION. GET IT? [[User:The Advocate|The Advocate]] 13:15, 14 April 2006 (UTC)
:*Not blocking a vandal just because they're an AOL user is simply not workable. I don't entirely userstand how this system works, but as I understand it you can still edit - just you have to sign in. If that's the case then where's the problem in that? Though really this all adds to the argument that we should only be allowing registered users to edit in the first place. --[[User: Evan C|Evan C]] ([[User talk: Evan C|Talk]]) 13:25, 14 April 2006 (UTC)

There's no way for us admins to know if a user is coming from AOL until ''after'' they're blocked. And there are a lot of vandals using AOL, so, even though we try to avoid blocking AOL users needlessly, some blocks can't really be avoided. In fact, there are vandals who deliberately get themselves blocked and then try to edit from as many AOL proxies as they can to make editing difficult for ''other'' AOL users. Yes, it's stupid, but then so is most vandalism; it doesn't take much intellectual capacity to add "OMG MY TECHER IS A JERK" to articles.

Fortunately, there are some rather easy ways in which you can avoid all those AOL blocks altogether. One is to install a free alternative browser, such as [[Mozilla Firefox]], and edit Wikipedia using it rather than the default AOL browser. That way, your edits will not go through AOL's proxies, and you will not be affected even if those proxies are blocked.

You can also try changing the proxy configuration for your normal browser; I don't know if that's possible or if AOL has somehow locked down the settings. If you manage to do it, please let me know. (It's also possible to avoid AOL's proxies by editing over [[HTTPS]], but Wikipedia doesn't currently support that.) —[[User:Ilmari Karonen|Ilmari Karonen]] <small>([[User talk:Ilmari Karonen|talk]])</small> 13:34, 14 April 2006 (UTC)

== Thanks ==

Thanks for reverting vandalism on my userpage! Based on the username I'm pretty sure it was a sockpuppet. [[User:CanadianCaesar|CanadianCaesar]] <small>[[User_talk:CanadianCaesar|Et tu, Brute?]]</small> 23:06, 13 April 2006 (UTC)

== Hi ==

Hi Curps. I just wanted to say hello because you seem to be a friendly and valuable member of the Wikipedia community. I am a member of the Welcoming Committee and mostly welcome new users and check on their progress and help them with any difficulties. I came across you by checking on a new user and noticed you were pretty friendly with them. Thats all. Waikiki!!! --[[User talk:ElectricEye|ElectricEye]] 00:56, 14 April 2006 (UTC)

== Vandal-revert... ==

Thanks for the revert on my talk page! ---[[User:J.smith|J.Smith]] 18:39, 14 April 2006 (UTC)

== linux and gnu/linux ==

Hi Curps,

I see you are reverting changes on GNU/Linux and Linux, when I tried to put Linux in a disambiguation page as has been multiple times requested in the discussion page. I do not see any of your comments on the discussion, neither you explain your revert. Please, do explain why you think it is better that way. [[User:Jordi Burguet Castell|jbc]] 01:07, 15 April 2006 (UTC)

You say there is consensus about it, but I disagree. In fact I can see many references and petitions for a disambiguation in the discussion, being unanswered. Would you mind to show me either the answers or where is this consensus? On the other hand, you are right to point that it wasn't a proper "page move", I was not aware there is a proper way to do it (not cut-and-paste). [[User:Jordi Burguet Castell|jbc]] 01:17, 15 April 2006 (UTC)

Ok, I remain mostly unconvinced, but thanks for showing me the right (wikipedia) way. [[User:Jordi Burguet Castell|jbc]] 01:44, 15 April 2006 (UTC)

==hey==
Almost at 300. Only 2 more after this. Anyway, we haven't run into each other yet, as I do most of my vandal fighting off the IRC, but just felt like dropping by to say hi, and keep up the good work. [[User:Swatjester|<font color="red">&rArr;</font>]] [[User_talk:Swatjester|<font face="Euclid Fraktur"><font color="black">SWAT</font><font color="goldenrod">Jester</font></font>]] [[Image:Flag_of_Iceland.svg|18px|]] [[Special:Contributions/Swatjester|<small><sup>Ready</sup></small>]] [[RSTA|<small>Aim</small>]] [[Wikipedia:WikiProject_United_States_Armed_Forces|<small><sub>Fire!</sub></small>]] 08:41, 15 April 2006 (UTC)

==WP:WQA==

I've reported you to WP:Wikiquette Alerts for ignoring RFCs, and banning those who ask you a question. Such regime like behavior is worrisome. -{{unsigned|66.97.172.125}}

:First of all, you don't seem to know what an RFC is on Wikipedia. Second, you are a notorious vandal wikistalking [[User:Xtra]] and vandalizing all the articles and user talk pages that Xtra has contributed to. -- [[User:Curps|Curps]] 09:24, 15 April 2006 (UTC)

== [[Notre Dame High School, Sheffield]] ==

[[Notre Dame High School, Sheffield]] This article needs deleting, i listed it for deletion but somebody removed the notice. If you read it you will see its just full of crap and irrelevant comments it is obviously made by students from the school and when you delete it they will probally make another one. Thanks--[[User:Childzy|Childzy]] 10:11, 15 April 2006 (UTC)

==Thanks ^_^==
Thanks for blocking those imposter accounts I created just to make sure they were never created :) The recent issue with Chanlord started to make me suspicious. &mdash; '''[[User:Deckiller|Deckill]][[User:Deckiller/EA|<font color="green">e</font>]][[User talk:Deckiller|r]]''' 13:57, 15 April 2006 (UTC)

==Nr9 indefinite block==
[[User:Nr9]] has contacted me regarding the indefinite block you placed on him. He says he has sent you an e-mail without response so now he's sending messages to other Admins in hopes of finding someone to unblock him. You might want to drop the fellow a line in response before he finds one. Cheers. [[User:23skidoo|23skidoo]] 19:51, 15 April 2006 (UTC)
:Mixing in here—it seems you blocked him as a sockpuppet of an IP address. That strikes me as a bit strange—people who've edited anonymously, and then register, are not ordinarily considered sockpuppets. Moreover the IP address has never been blocked. I also didn't see anything in Nr9's contribution history that looked permanent-ban-worthy (not that I looked at the whole thing). Maybe you should request other opinions at the adminstrators' noticeboard or something. --[[User:Trovatore|Trovatore]] 20:03, 15 April 2006 (UTC)

I'm not sure what you mean by "sockpuppet of an IP address". He is very likely a sockpuppet of {{vandal|Odmk69}}. Imitating Odmk69, he deleted nearly all the content of [[Taipei American School]] [http://en.wikipedia.org/enwiki/w/index.php?title=Taipei_American_School&diff=prev&oldid=47510245] and preposterously called the deleted content "vanity" [http://en.wikipedia.org/enwiki/w/index.php?title=Talk:Taipei_American_School&diff=prev&oldid=47516210]. The Nr9 sock also did some trolling at Al Qaeda and 9/11 pages, for what it's worth. More to the point, there is a long history of vandalism at [[Taipei American School]], dating back to about a year or so, almost certainly all the same person, and this is very likely that same person. The earlier edits were mostly IP addresses, but I suppose he moved on to registered socks when the software was changed to no longer allow anon IPs to create articles. -- [[User:Curps|Curps]] 22:39, 15 April 2006 (UTC)
:I see. The block summary didn't specify who he was supposed to be sockpuppetting, and the "suspected sockpuppet" template on his user talk page lists him as a suspected sockpuppet of [[User:136.152.170.134]], so I jumped to conclusions. Maybe you'd like to clarify the template. --[[User:Trovatore|Trovatore]] 23:36, 15 April 2006 (UTC)

== Sockpuppets? ==

I have reason to belive that the following accounts are sockpuppets. Is there any actions to take against them? They have not done any major vandalism that I know of. However I noticed that you have once taken action against Commondore Kevles a few days earlier. For evidence, notice the similar name (''Rank'' Kevles) and the format of the user page ("Hello" in diffrent languages then followed by the Communist symbol). --[[User:Typer_525|Typer525]] <sup>[[User talk:Typer_525|Contact]]</sup> 21:02, 17 April 2006 (UTC)

[[User:Commodore_Kevles]]<br>
[[User:Admiral_Kevles]]<br>
[[User:Captain_Kevles]]<br>
[[User:Warlord_Kevles]]<br>

:Undoubtedly they are sockpuppets, but it's not clear that they've done anything to warrant blocking. -- [[User:Curps|Curps]] 22:03, 17 April 2006 (UTC)

== Thanks... ==

for reverting vandalism on my user page (and blocking the socktroll who did it). [[User:Dbtfz|<span style="color:maroon">dbtfz</span>]][[User talk:Dbtfz|<sup><span style="color:slategray">talk</span></sup>]] 22:02, 15 April 2006 (UTC)

== re: history restore ==

I didn't know he was a sockpuppet, but looking at the article I did realize that parts of the history (unrelated to vandalism) had been deleted, per the GFDL I think those needed to be properly undeleted. It might not be clear from looking at the article history now, but what had happened was someone had just pasted a copy of the deleted article to recreate it, the pre-vandal revisions needed to be properly restored. --[[User:W.marsh|W.marsh]] 22:14, 15 April 2006 (UTC)

:Well like I say, I didn't know he was a vandal/sock until you told me. If I'd known that from the get-go I would have blocked him myself. --[[User:W.marsh|W.marsh]] 22:26, 15 April 2006 (UTC)

== Bonaparte ==

Hi Curps, please see [[User talk:Bonaparte/sockpuppetry|this]]. The permabanned [[User:Bonaparte]] has recently been using socks to target Romania and Moldova-related pages. His socks [[User:Iasi]] and [[User:Chisinau]] have not been blocked yet. Please help, thanks. &mdash;[[User:Khoikhoi|Khoikhoi]] 22:41, 15 April 2006 (UTC)

== Preemptive blocking? ==

Hi Curps. I'm curious why you blocked <s>[a certain user]</s>, given that that user doesn't exist. If this is some kind of preemptive blocking of a potential inappropriate username, it seems a little futile to me, since a vandal could simply use a slightly different name. Or is there some other reason this makes sense? [[User:dbenbenn]] 00:14, 16 April 2006 (UTC)
:Apparently accounts do get deleted sometimes, and with good reason. You should probably delete the userpage too so it doesn't appear in the category. Keep up the good work.--[[User:Craw Returns|Craw Returns]] 00:20, 16 April 2006 (UTC)
:: There are also 135 variations on your own name that are blocked though the user doesn't exist, such as [[User:Ķûŕṕś]]. Is it true that user accounts actually get deleted? If so, do you think these deleted accounts should remain blocked? [[User:dbenbenn]] 00:23, 16 April 2006 (UTC)

I don't believe that the block page even lets you block a nonexistent username. -- [[User:Curps|Curps]] 00:24, 16 April 2006 (UTC)
: Good point. I just [http://en.wikipedia.org/enwiki/w/index.php?title=Special%3ALog&type=block&page=User%3A%C4%B6%C3%BB%C5%95%E1%B9%95%C5%9B unblocked] [[User:Ķûŕṕś]], and then was not able to reblock. I guess that indicates the account was indeed deleted sometime between January 7 and now. Odd. Anyway, I guess it makes sense just to leave all those names blocked. [[User:dbenbenn]] 00:43, 16 April 2006 (UTC)

== Happy Spring celebration / Easter (as your preferences and beliefs dictate) ==

[[Image:JellyBellyPile.JPG|thumb|left|Here's hoping that if the bunny leaves you any beans they're this kind! <font color="green">[[User:Lar/Esperanza|+]]</font>+[[User:Lar|Lar]]: [[User_talk:Lar|t]]/[[Special:Contributions/Lar|c]] 15:20, 16 April 2006 (UTC) ]]

==Happy Easter==
[[Image:Easter bunny.jpg|left|thumb|200px|Moe is here to say Happy Easter! -- [[User:Moe Epsilon|<font color="FF0000">M</font><font color="EE0000" >o</font><font color="DD0000">e</font>]] [[User talk:Moe Epsilon|<font color="0000FF">ε</font>]] 18:24, 16 April 2006 (UTC)]]

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== [[Canada]] ==

Sorry about the edit on [[Canada]]. The bottom portion must've gotten cut off when I was formatting the image layout and previewing before saving. I had no intention to vandalize.<b>—[[User:GHe|<font color="blue">G</font>]].[[User talk:GHe|<font color="#333399">He</font><small><sub><font color="#006600">(Talk!)</font></sub></small>]]</b> 20:47, 16 April 2006 (UTC)

== [[205.188.116.5]] ==

<s>User 205.188.116.5 has been '''repetedly''' vandalizing [[Pi]]. Please look into the situation.<b>—[[User:GHe|<font color="blue">G</font>]].[[User talk:GHe|<font color="#333399">He</font><small><sub><font color="#006600">(Talk!)</font></sub></small>]]</b> 21:13, 16 April 2006 (UTC)</s>
<br><br>
'''(Apparently stopped for now...)'''

== Deleting things from User:Talk pages ==

Yo Curps, you deleted a comment on my talk page by another editor. Although he was clearly a sockpuppet (or at least an easily led fool), I think it's inappropriate to delete others' comments. Is this a special circumstance, or are you involved in a campaign against this guy and his minions? Anyway, feel free to respond or not to, and happy editing. -[[User:Matthewcieplak|Matthew Cieplak]] <sup>[[User_talk:Matthewcieplak|(talk)]] [[Special:Contributions/Matthewcieplak|(edits)]]</sup> 21:31, 16 April 2006 (UTC)

== Please delete.... ==

I made a move then foundout that move wasn't what I wanted for a archived talkpage so can you delete [[User_talk:Sgrayban/archive_1]] and [[User_talk:Sgrayban/Archive_1]] -- they are only redirects I don't use in my talkpage anymore. Thanks. --[[User:Sgrayban|Scott Grayban]] 05:46, 17 April 2006 (UTC)

== Re:[[User talk:Chaos syndrome#Hurricane Devon|Hurricane Devon]] ==

Cut me some slack. I didn't understand the copyrighted rules back then. &mdash; '''<font color="green">[[User:Hurricane Devon|Hurricane]]</font><font color="blue">[[User talk:Hurricane Devon|Dev]]</font><font color="blue">[[Portal:Tropical cyclones|o]]</font><font color="blue">[[Portal:Astronomy|n]]</font>''' @ 11:32, 17 April 2006 (UTC)

== Liberalism ==

Thanks fo defending Liberalism against attacks by vandals. In this revert war, the replacement of liberal democracy by liberal communism remained intact. I restored this. [[User:Electionworld|Electionworld]] = [[User:Wilfried Derksen|Wilfried]] <small>([[User talk:Electionworld|talk]]</small> 16:59, 17 April 2006 (UTC)

== Re: Block ==

No problem. Now, the comment I was about to leave 20 minutes ago: sorry that I messed up {{tl|Border}}. I thought changes there were the cause of screwed layout in {{tl|Serbia-bio-stub}}, but the only way I could check it was to experiment with it. (Well, I still don't know why the layout was screwed, but I worked it around). Then you came in and the roof fell... Regards, [[User:Duja|Duja]] 20:55, 17 April 2006 (UTC)

== MetaProject on open proxies ==
I see you or your bot has been active in blocking open proxies. Would you be interested in contributing to the [[m:WM:OP|MetaProject on open proxies]] ([[WP:OP|local chapter]]), which coordinates open proxy management between several participating Foundation wikis? // [<small>[[WP:ADMIN|admin]]</small>] [[User:Pathoschild/s|Pathoschild]] (<sup>''[[User_Talk:Pathoschild/s|talk]]''</sup>/<sub>[[m:User:Pathoschild|map]]</sub>) 03:11, 18 April 2006 (UTC)

:Well I don't really have the time to work on open proxies on any kind of regular basis, it's just something I do randomly at long intervals. -- [[User:Curps|Curps]] 04:59, 19 April 2006 (UTC)

== [[User:12.2.142.7]] ==

I noticed your reply to unblock on [[User talk:Psiphiorg]] - it (was) a zombie proxy, it doesn't scan on nmap, it appears to be a corporate to CATERPILLAR Inc, I'm leaning to AGF and assume the botnet software is off and unblock but I wanted to ask you first to prevent a wheel war. Cheers :) -- [[User:Tawker|Tawker]] 22:06, 18 April 2006 (UTC)

:OK go ahead. However, according to him the IP address in question is a non-open proxy used by all corporate employees to access the Internet. If the proxy server itself wasn't compromised they may have a zombie computer within their network sitting on some employee's desk. I don't think "AGF" is an issue, since nobody in their organization intentionally wanted squidward to abuse their computing resources. Lots of large organization are still running Windows 2000 and what not, I just hope that in this particular case they're a little more secure. Anyways, go ahead and unblock. -- [[User:Curps|Curps]] 05:12, 19 April 2006 (UTC)
::Yeah, I know its likely an insecure proxy but there is a chance that they've purged the malware from their systems. Your bot is good enough that it stops 'em within 30 seconds anyways, so no major major damage done :) -- [[User:Tawker|Tawker]] 05:51, 19 April 2006 (UTC)

== User Dean2008 ==

Dean is a student of mine here and he was not the one editing, I saw the President Bush thing and I also saw a student messing with that article when dean left his computer to use the restroom, I would appreciate it if you unblocked him so that he can continue to correct vandalism, it's what he likes to do in spare time

== Redirect page [[Microosft]] ==

This is a common misspelling and should be continue a redirect. You has deleted this page (former). Often performed by myself and many other: so a redirect is needed. Please do not delete this page. [[User:Sub950|Sub950]] 20:14, 19 April 2006 (UTC)

== [[Template:Continents]] ==

: ''(no reason to comment out interwiki and categories within noinclude)''
Thanks for spotting this oversight! &nbsp;Best wishes, [[User:David Kernow|David Kernow]] 22:27, 19 April 2006 (UTC)


== block ==
Why have i been blocked? I didnt vandlaise anything!
[[User:Warmon|Warmon]] 02:11, 20 April 2006

Thanks for the explaination man, your clarity it appreciated.

==Are the russian contributors above the rules? 3RRR breaking violation of [[User:Irpen]]==

Are the russian editors above the rules? Why shouldn't that apply to all users? They reverted my edits and Bogdan's.

I posted his breaking rules on:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Administrators%27_noticeboard/3RR#User:Irpen


Let all the people see what kind of people are in Wikipedia.

--[[User:Andrei George|Andrei George]] 19:00, 20 April 2006 (UTC)

Nothing happen so far...

[[WP:3RR|Three revert rule]] violation on {{Article|Uprising of Khotin}}. {{3RRV|Irpen}}: <!-- USE UNDERSCORE INSTEAD OF SPACE! -->



* Previous version reverted to: http://en.wikipedia.org/enwiki/w/index.php?title=Uprising_of_Khotin&diff=49122359&oldid=48934943

*1st revert: http://en.wikipedia.org/enwiki/w/index.php?title=Uprising_of_Khotin&diff=49122359&oldid=48934943
*2nd revert: http://en.wikipedia.org/enwiki/w/index.php?title=Uprising_of_Khotin&diff=49253537&oldid=49186274
*3rd revert: http://en.wikipedia.org/enwiki/w/index.php?title=Uprising_of_Khotin&diff=49318130&oldid=49258375
*4th revert: http://en.wikipedia.org/enwiki/w/index.php?title=Uprising_of_Khotin&diff=49319141&oldid=49318621

reported by [[User:Andrei George|Andrei George]] 19:10, 20 April 2006 (UTC)

== AOL 172's ==

As a former AOL subscriber, I noticed that AOL dialup IP addresses in the 172 range are assigned on a per-connection basis and remain "static" until the user disconnects or gets dropped by the carrier. These are recycled much less frequently than the others (there's over five million of them), thus 15 minutes on a single IP in this range is usually not enough. {{vandal|172.194.231.86}} did some penis and breasts vandalism, got blocked for 15 minutes, posted some crap on his talk page in the interim, then continued doing the same shit. A longer block for 172.*.*.* IPs would at least force AOL vandals to actively disconnect and reconnect rather than sitting out an amusingly short block. — <small>Apr. 20, '06</small> <tt class=plainlinks>'''[21:21] <[{{fullurl:user:freakofnurture}} freakofnur<sub>x</sub>ture][[special:contributions/freakofnurture||]][{{fullurl:user talk:freakofnurture|action=edit&section=new}} talk]>'''</tt>
*That's probably not such a great idea, 2 reasons:
:1) they may not know that, and by appying a different standard to 172.*.*.* users, you may alert them to the fact that all it takes is 3 seconds and you can have yourself a brandnew 172.*.*.* ip to vandalize with, so rather than sitting out a 15 minute block, they'll simply realize that they're unblockable, and could go on a never ending rampage, and you'd be forced to block 172.0.0.0/255 or whatever
:2) I'm '''not''' using AOL dialup, but I have a 172.*.*.* anyway, there are tons of other explanations for the 172.*.*.* users, and most are far less straightfoward than what you've suggested, I can change my ip in a heartbeat, no logging off required, the fact that you probably don't know how, tells me your not ready to even be invloved with the AOL issue at all--[[User:172.152.237.86|172.152.237.86]] 00:53, 21 April 2006 (UTC)
:3) that took me how many seconds to change my ip? 15, 16?--[[User:172.169.127.61|172.169.127.61]] 00:55, 21 April 2006 (UTC)

::First of all, it's 172.0.0.0/8, not 172.0.0.0/255, and not all of that range is AOL. And there's nothing special about what you describe, lots of other ISPs work that way. However, your ISP tracks all the IP addresses you use by the way, and if we ever need to formulate a "acceptable use" or "terms of service complaint" to them, a pattern of rapidly switching IP addresses will kind of stand out. -- [[User:Curps|Curps]] 01:02, 21 April 2006 (UTC)
:::Probably not that simple, I mean I'm not even an AOL customer at all--[[User:172.144.53.130|172.144.53.130]] 03:02, 22 April 2006 (UTC)

== RE 69.210.*.* blocks, Gay/Queer/Wikipedia Vandalism ==

Please revise the block down to 30 to one hour, the IPs are dynamic (not sure of the exact setup) and the possibility of collateral damage is fairly high. Thanks, --[[User:Avillia|Avillia]] 03:35, 15 April 2006 (UTC)
:Thanks! --[[User:Avillia|Avillia]] 03:37, 15 April 2006 (UTC)
::Theyre at it again: Could you revert the ones you've done and just apply a rangeblock for a hour or two? Thanks. --[[User:Avillia|Avillia]] 05:51, 21 April 2006 (UTC)

I think 24 hour blocks are appropriate, these don't seem to be proxy addresses of any kind, so the likelihood of collateral damage would be fairly small. I tried rangeblocks over the past few days, they didn't discourage this person. -- [[User:Curps|Curps]] 08:42, 21 April 2006 (UTC)

== Unicode on [[Obesity]] ==

Thanks for alerting me to my unicode problem. I'll have to get a better editor. --[[User:Slashme|Slashme]] 10:31, 21 April 2006 (UTC)

== Damn you're fast! ==
[[Image:Barnstar-rotating.gif|left]]
[[Image:Rouge-Admin.png|right]]
Well done. I wonder if we'll have to take the unusual step of applying sprot to an AfD debate? [[User Talk:JzG|Just zis <span style="border: 1px; border-style:solid; padding:0px 2px 2px 2px; color:white; background-color:darkblue; font-weight:bold">Guy</span> you know?]] 11:00, 21 April 2006 (UTC)

You are undoubtedly a [[WP:ROUGE|rouge admin]] of the finest kind :-) I award you the tireless barnstar for your work fandal-fighting. It should be running at double speed for you, mind... [[User Talk:JzG|Just zis <span style="border: 1px; border-style:solid; padding:0px 2px 2px 2px; color:white; background-color:darkblue; font-weight:bold">Guy</span> you know?]] 12:34, 21 April 2006 (UTC)

== Curps ==

I feel shame for humanity knowing that there are user identities that act like you do on the internet out there. 14:22, 21 April 2006 (UTC)[[User:Rufus4442345|Rufus4442345]]
:I feel delight for humanity knowing that user identites that act like you are indef-blocked on sight in Wikipedia. The [[WP:ROUGE|rouge admin posse]] strikes again! [[User Talk:JzG|Just zis <span style="border: 1px; border-style:solid; padding:0px 2px 2px 2px; color:white; background-color:darkblue; font-weight:bold">Guy</span> you know?]] 14:39, 21 April 2006 (UTC)

==[[Simon Strelchik]]==
While the AFDs might have been filled with socks, that is no reason to go and delete the article. There are plenty of legit users that voted merge and only two that voted delete. Protecting it as a redirect to the list after it has been merged (with history) seems more appropriate than just {{tl|deletedpage}}ing it. [[User:Kotepho|Kotepho]] 18:39, 21 April 2006 (UTC)
:Listed on DRV as you seem to have wanted anyways. [[User:Kotepho|Kotepho]] 04:58, 22 April 2006 (UTC)

== Edit Summary ==

Curp's recent reverts on [[World War I]] caused a lot of confusion: the bot reverted legitimate edits and several of us thought that someone named Curps was starting an edit war. Anyway, my point isn't to complain about the false positive, it's to make a suggestion. It would be very helpful if you would make mention of the fact that Curps is a bot in the edit summary. [[User:Ragout|Ragout]] 02:23, 22 April 2006 (UTC)

== Beckjord's ban timer ==

Should now be reset to 2007-04-19 based on most recent edits to [[Bigfoot]] (this article has been SPed by Bishonen to stop him). --[[User:69.117.7.63|69.117.7.63]] 02:37, 22 April 2006 (UTC)

== Blocked! ==

You blocked me mistaking me for someone else, thats not my IP address. [[User:Richard Arthur Norton (1958- )|Richard Arthur Norton (1958- )]] 04:06, 22 April 2006 (UTC)
Your user name or IP address has been blocked from editing.
You were blocked by Curps for the following reason (see our blocking policy):
"Autoblocked because your IP address has been recently used by "Futur19". The reason given for Futur19's block is: "vandalism"."
Your IP address is 72.14.194.32.

You also blooked me through blocking [[User:Futur19]] who uses the same ISP as myself but is not me.

My IP is 72.14.194.27. Please address this. --[[User:ScienceApologist|ScienceApologist]] 06:05, 22 April 2006 (UTC)

My IP is 72.14.194.32 and I am sick of always being blocked! I share this IP with 450 other users on cable modem, could you please stop blocking my account? Thanks. [[User:Blacknail|Blacknail]] 06:47, 22 April 2006 (UTC)

:Unfortunately, there's really nothing I can do to prevent this. It seems you guys are using [[Google Web Accelerator]], which uses some kind of proxies, so when a vandal who also uses GWA is blocked many other users who use it are also blocked. Note I have no way of knowing ahead of time that any given username like "Futur19" is or isn't using Google Web Accelerator or AOL or any other ISP or proxy IP address. The only people who might be able to help are the developers, through the so-called XFF Project, which might allow blocking of the underlying IP address of the vandal rather than blocking the Google proxy IP address; I've left a message at [[User_talk:Tim_Starling#Google_Web_Accelerator_autoblocks_cause_large_amounts_of_collateral_damage]]. Please follow up with him. -- [[User:Curps|Curps]] 15:58, 22 April 2006 (UTC)

== re: Paul Kane ==
Argh. You're right. I was copying the reference style and must have got the articles mixed. Ugh. Lesson to self: never edit when tired. ;-)

== Unblocked [[User:ADNghiem501]] ==

You blocked [[User:ADNghiem501]] yesterday, citing "vandalism". That appears to be a mistake; I couldn't find any vandalism. The user asked me to unblock, so I did. Just thought you'd want to know (in case there's something I missed). [[User:dbenbenn]] 16:44, 22 April 2006 (UTC)

:Looks like that was a mistake, related to his [[Help:Edit summary]] edit which removed interwiki links. [http://en.wikipedia.org/enwiki/w/index.php?title=Help:Edit_summary&diff=prev&oldid=49496896] -- [[User:Curps|Curps]] 17:29, 22 April 2006 (UTC)

::I only replaced with the latest content which I took a copy from Meta. When I deleted the previous content before this, the interwikis were removed and I was going to restore them immediately. It's a waste of my time for 1 day since you blocked me. During the block I couldn't edit anything except my own talk page. Note I sent you an e-mail yesterday, but later, I contact [[User:dbenbenn]] at the Wikimedia Commons regarding this subject above. -- [[User:ADNghiem501|ADNghiem501]] 17:39, 22 April 2006 (UTC)

== Block-o-bot ==

I think its acting up, its been indef blocking a few users with no traces of vandalism that I can find, can you take a look please -- [[User:Tawker|Tawker]] 17:32, 22 April 2006 (UTC)
:Sure [[User talk:CasanovaAlive]] and an ip [[User talk:86.3.115.169]] are the two that I unblocked. As a side note would you be able to email me the criteria that it looks for when it auto blocks, I want to make sure I've got all of the criteria as you obviously catch a fair bit of vandalsim (my email address on email this user works fine) -- [[User:Tawker|Tawker]] 17:53, 22 April 2006 (UTC)
:Ok, thanks, I've re-blocked CasanovaAlive with a link to ANI, thanks for the swift reply. -- [[User:Tawker|Tawker]] 18:13, 22 April 2006 (UTC)

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