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Abusive anon.

Good morning. Would you please take a look at this and then caution this editor not to insult people? In addition to repeatedly changing IPs in order to push his POV in Scorsese-related articles, he leaves abusive messages on my alternate talk page when I revert his edits. I've asked him repeatedly to stop, to no avail. Perhaps a warning from an administrator will have an affect? Thanks! ---The Old Jacobite_{The '45} 13:16, 26 March 2017 (UTC)

Already handled by my colleague. The Scorsese "fan" is a frequent customer, who should be processed with steel-toed boots. Favonian (talk) 15:41, 26 March 2017 (UTC)

Ok, good. Many thanks! And, yes, I agree with that course of action. ---The Old Jacobite_{The '45} 16:05, 26 March 2017 (UTC)

Battle of Baiji (2014-15) article vandalism

Hi, there. I'm really sorry to bother you, but an apparent WP:VOA committed a serious amount of deletions and vandalism in the Battle of Baiji (2015) article. (The WP:VOA has since been blocked indefinitely.) He also moved it from its original title, Battle of Baiji (2014–15) to the current title, Battle of Baiji (2015), based on his own opinions. Since I am completely unable to restore the article to its original title, can you please revert the page move? Thank you. LightandDark2000 (talk) 09:32, 27 March 2017 (UTC)

@LightandDark2000: It's back to where it was. Bit surprising that you couldn't move it. Didn't require awesome privileges. Favonian (talk) 16:10, 27 March 2017 (UTC)

Really? Whenever I tried reverting page moves, I always got a message saying that I couldn't, because "the page has changed since then." I might have managed to revert only one page move, but if I did, it was only before anyone else made any edits. Do you have any ideas as to what may have caused this? By the way, thanks for the help. LightandDark2000 (talk) 05:48, 29 March 2017 (UTC)

AIV follow-up

Just FYI, this wasn't meant to be passive aggressive at all. I misread your block datestamp. Sorted now, thanks! Mark Schierbecker (talk) 04:30, 31 March 2017 (UTC)

No harm done, Mark. A long marriage made me immune to P-A. :) Favonian (talk) 08:18, 1 April 2017 (UTC)

Thanks

For some gnomish careful antidrama work you've done in the last few hours. NewsAndEventsGuy (talk) 09:19, 2 April 2017 (UTC)

Thanks for the note, NewsAndEventsGuy. The effort even seems to have had the intended effect – assuming, of course, that we are talking about the same thing. ;) Favonian (talk) 10:59, 2 April 2017 (UTC)

Hmmmm

Check the contribs of EditorINspace. Don't they quack, a bit? Or am I seeing phantom socks? --bonadea contributions talk 06:07, 5 April 2017 (UTC)

(talk page stalker) Quite loud quacking, blocked. Widr (talk) 06:36, 5 April 2017 (UTC)

Cheers, Widr! --bonadea contributions talk 06:49, 5 April 2017 (UTC)

Concur fully with the ornithological observation. Favonian (talk) 09:30, 5 April 2017 (UTC)

While we're on the subject of Anas platyrhynchos, this was one of my favourite April Fools jokes this year. I think I'll appropriate the phrase "to see the incredible Duck outline" for future use. --bonadea contributions talk 13:57, 5 April 2017 (UTC)

Someone should write a Misplaced Pages essay. :) Favonian (talk) 14:00, 5 April 2017 (UTC)

Ooops... I reverted you

Sorry about that. I was just catching up with the doings on your talk-page and accidentally touched the revert button. I'm a vandal. I'll just go stand in the corner. In an orange jumpsuit. Haploidavey (talk) 14:06, 5 April 2017 (UTC)

Remember to upload the picture to Commons! :D Favonian (talk) 14:07, 5 April 2017 (UTC)

No picture could possibly contain us all. We quack, and are legion. Haploidavey (talk) 14:09, 5 April 2017 (UTC)

Tordenskjold nationality

Recently you edited the Peter Tordenskjold page and reverted my change of the given nationality from Dano-Norwegian to just Norwegian.

I edited the page again, as I was unable to undo your change on my mobile. If you check the history of the page you can see my explanation of the change, and I would like to to discuss further if you wish to change it as I really do disagree.

Abusive anon

Hey! I came across this and this edit while patrolling recent changes. The comments made by the anon. are grossly insulting and the revisions may be suitable for deletion (I'm not quite familiar with revdel policies but as far as my knowledge goes, this could come under the violation). Thought I might bring this incident to your attention. Jiten Dhandha • talk • contributions • 16:55, 7 April 2017 (UTC)

Thanks, Jiten Dhandha! It's an old "acquaintance": Misplaced Pages:Long-term abuse/Nipponese Dog Calvero – quite deranged. Since I've blocked several of his socks, he lashes back at all things Danish. Rather absurd. Favonian (talk) 17:49, 7 April 2017 (UTC)

I see... Quite sad that people go to such extents as to make numerous user accounts or change IPs to vandalize Misplaced Pages. I noticed that you removed the edit summary - didnt know that was possible! Its nice that you can do that. Anyway, happy editing and hope to see you around more often! :) Jiten Dhandha • talk • contributions • 18:12, 7 April 2017 (UTC)

...And completely walks all over our policy against personally attacking danish pastries *mmm* :o — Preceding unsigned comment added by Fortuna Imperatrix Mundi (talk • contribs)

Personally I find it cute to see children at play. Drmies (talk) 18:02, 8 April 2017 (UTC)

For the record

Dear Favonian, ArbCom does not believe you are a "corrupt motherfucker administrator". I've heard some muttering about your username being a bit frivolous and showing a lack of the letters "e" and "u", as if you are signaling that you are biased toward the EU and wish for its failure, but I do not think that is a credible accusation, and I want you to know I'm in your corner. For the committee, Drmies (talk) 18:01, 8 April 2017 (UTC)

Thank you, esteemed member of the Cabal! Regarding my username, its distinctly Latin flavor is a discrete homage to the Treaty of Rome, subtlety being ever my hallmark. Tell the IP, next time you meet it, that the least it can do is to spell my name correctly. Favonian (talk) 18:07, 8 April 2017 (UTC)

Absofuckinglutely, sir. Drmies (talk) 02:58, 9 April 2017 (UTC)

Losing track

Am starting to lose track of all these contributions suddenly coming from Bury St Edmunds. Martinevans123 (talk) 16:41, 9 April 2017 (UTC)

Rerouted to Uncle Joe's favorite track. Favonian (talk) 16:45, 9 April 2017 (UTC)

Kevin O'Leary

As a typical admin who is currently active (per my perusal of Special:Blocklist), can you give me your opinion on a short-term use of extended confirmed protection on this article? Say, one month? People are engaged in a dispute about O'Leary's Canadian military service which would otherwise merit full protection, and I'd prefer not to tie up the article if possible. Two editors are recently blocked per AN3, but others are continuing the fight. Those who are fighting happen to have less than 500 edits. Thanks, EdJohnston (talk) 17:13, 9 April 2017 (UTC)

Never actually used that protection level. Hang on a minute+ while I catch up with my reading. Favonian (talk) 17:15, 9 April 2017 (UTC)

OK, EdJohnston, I'd say use of this protections meets In cases where semi-protection has proven to be ineffective, administrators may use extended confirmed protection to combat disruption (such as vandalism, abusive sockpuppetry, edit wars, etc.) on any topic. (WP:BLUELOCK) Favonian (talk) 17:24, 9 April 2017 (UTC) "typical" – seriously?!

Thanks for your reply. I've done the protection. EdJohnston (talk) 17:42, 9 April 2017 (UTC)

Vujjayani

This editor whom you recently reverted at ANI has made further disruptive edits, removing a lot of information and text of others. I would like to revert him, but I don't know how to do it without removing the comments made after his edits. Individually adding them would be too long. So if you could do something, it would be highly appreciated. Thanks. MonsterHunter32 (talk) 17:51, 9 April 2017 (UTC)