User talk:Jameshfisher

unblock|Excuse me? Why in hell did I try to edit a page this afternoon and find my username blocked? Apparently I'm a sockpuppet of IP address 81.178.255.5 (User talk:81.178.255.5). Who in the world is this, and how have I possibly been equated with him? Firstly, I was under the impression that the word 'sockpuppet' is used to refer to two distinct usernames used by the same person. As far as I am aware, I have not had, do not have, and would be extremely surprised if I do in the future have, the IP address 81.178.255.5. I realise that Wikipedia is in the spirit of freedom, but does this actually extend to the freedom to block other users with ungrounded evidence and without the right to fair trial? No warnings for the clear vandalism committed by 81.178.255.5, in which I have played absolutely no part, have appeared on my user page, or my user talk page. It seems that I am thoroughly unable now to defend myself apart from on my user talk page, which I cannot imagine, now, that people crawl to check for injustice. I was not aware that Wikipedia was in the business of secret trials? The realisation that this has been going on for the last two years - during which I have made a great many contributions to Wikipedia - shocks me. How many legitimate builders of the Wikipedia community have been exiled since its creation by rogue administrators?

In the spirit of setting an example, as I believe Wikipedia users should, I apologise if I have been rash in my judgement of my executor.

What is your IP address / what is your ISP, its possible you got stuck with a vandal on a shared ip -- Tawker 17:59, 24 June 2006 (UTC)

And calm down. You haven't ever been blocked. Sasquatch t|c 18:05, 24 June 2006 (UTC)

As pointed out you have never been directly blocked, so where you got a message about being a sockpuppet from I'm not sure. I also notice you were editing other pages within 10 minutes of posting the above without any administrator here intervening. Collateral damage from blocks does occur and the section in the block message entitled "Innocent?" explains some of this, we also have the {{unblock}} mechanism to help those caught up in such situations. You might also be interested in wikipedia is not --pgk^(talk) 18:05, 25 June 2006 (UTC)

Image:Prof John Matusiak.jpg listed for deletion

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Copyrighted image

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William-Adolphe Bouguereau gallery

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English spelling: fool proof?

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'Mary-Elizabeth nevertheless managed to destroy the fool proof dishwasher, after melting her foolproof iron and sinking her son's fool-proof boat.'

If you have an opinion about this at all, that is: perhaps such variants all feel acceptable to you. And what about bullet(-)proof, full(-)scale, hawk(-)nosed, brand(-)new, even(-)handed, fail(-)safe? Does the same apply to all? Thank you very much for your co-operation, you could reply here or on my User Talk page. Cerberus™ 01:14, 14 April 2006 (UTC)

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protip regarding sentence fragments

Hey Fisch I noticed u edited the page Evolution of sex to remove an apparently superfluous "The". However if you look further back, you'll see that the "The" was a fragment of a paragraph that was blanked a while ago. Thankfully someone restored it after your edit drew attention to it. Now I've noticed in my own edits that sentence fragments or out of place punctuation often indicate that a vandal had subtly removed information in the past. Maybe in future when you see such things you should check the history first to see if anything had been removed. Just a tip don't mean to sound too critical ;) --Krsont 15:29, 14 May 2007 (UTC)

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Wikisource Prose Edda

Eons ago, you asked about the Bragarœðr. I've answered there :-) Yngvadottir (talk) 17:22, 22 January 2010 (UTC)

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Just to let you know I've nominated it for Speedy deletion A7. PamD 17:47, 13 January 2012 (UTC)

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