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Nomination for deletion of Template:Whydelete

Template:Whydelete has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the template's entry on the Templates for discussion page. --Σ _contribs 04:21, 18 July 2011 (UTC)

Unprotection

I have asked Misplaced Pages:Requests for page protection for the unprotection of User:Bowei Huang and User talk:Bowei Huang and they won't unprotect it. So can you please simply unprotect it for me?

I want everything to return back to before and normal as much as possible. I want to undo the changes as much as possible. I made a mistake and I want to fix it as much as possible. Please? So please? I beg you.

Can you please just deal with my desires just once? Please?

Bowei Huang 2 (talk) 01:51, 22 July 2011 (UTC)

I see no reason to do so. --jpgordon 02:30, 22 July 2011 (UTC)

Bad edit

Thanks for picking up on and correcting my bad edit to User talk:Andycjp--don't know how that happened, sorry. This was the intended edit. --Macrakis (talk) 16:01, 29 July 2011 (UTC)

I only noticed it because an unblock template snuck in. I wonder how that happened? --jpgordon 16:02, 29 July 2011 (UTC)

Three IPs being used by a banned user

I previously posted this to Timotheus Canens' talk page, but then I saw that Timotheus happens to be on an admin tools break.

I was looking through the edit history of the article 'Cold fusion', and found a suspicious user with a blanked userpage and talk page, named VanishedUser314159. I looked at the two pages' histories and saw that the user was previously named Joshua P. Schroeder, and ScienceApologist before that, and that he had been banned from editting by the arbitration committee earlier this year. I saw that FT2 pointed out that he had used the IP address 128.59.169.49 as a sockpuppet , which I noticed to be almost identical to an IP which had recently editted the cold fusion article- 128.59.169.46. Those two similar IPs are from Columbia University. I investigated further and found that the IP 128.59.169.46 has been used to edit several of the same pages that VanishedUser314159 had editted , and in the same way, indicating that it is clearly him. He hasn't behaved well under his new IP either, having been blocked twice for edit-warring and trolling, and having received numerous complaints on his talk page for his disruptive behavior. After digging further through the edit histories of the articles that Schroeder frequented, I found two more IP addresses that he uses: In the edit history of the article 'Parapsychology', I found the IP 128.59.168.240- another similar IP, which edits the same pages that VanishedUser did, and in the same way. In the edit history of the article 'Tired light', I found the IP 140.252.83.241, which edits the same pages that VanishedUser did, and in the same way. If there is any doubt that the latter IP is used by Schroeder (since the IP is not similar to the others), you can see in the user contributions that there are edits to the article 'Columbia University'. Rachel the nerd (talk) 15:30, 8 August 2011 (UTC)

I've blocked the most recent IP. The last two you listed haven't been used in months; let us know if they chime in again. --jpgordon 16:20, 8 August 2011 (UTC)

Thank you. Rachel the nerd (talk) 17:07, 8 August 2011 (UTC)

Upon further investigation, I believe that the user 128.59.168.240 is not Schroeder himself, but a friend of his from Columbia University, who has made only a few edits at Schroeder's request. 128.59.168.240's editting does not strongly resemble that of VanishedUser the way that the editting of the other two IPs does. Rachel the nerd (talk) 19:30, 8 August 2011 (UTC)

Very observant Rachel and clever research! But it is dangerous business calling the cat a cat, owing to WIKIPEDIA:OUTING and harassment policy. An indefinite block happened to me, trying to draw attention to the same IP-user in June. And other users mainly active on the Swedish wp have recognized the VanishedUser's extreme mainstream pushing in some cosmology related articles and his being far from vanished. One pointed out the problem here and here not knowing how to check the prank. 140.252.83.232 (talk) and recently 209.2.217.202 are similar sock accounts. The problems are his many active edits that has not yet been reverted. / User:Kurtan 89.160.124.74 (talk) 20:39, 10 August 2011 (UTC)

Vrghs jacob again

I've filed an SPI at Misplaced Pages:Sockpuppet investigations/Vrghs jacob as he's started user accounts again. I've also mentioned your earlier check for range block. cheers. —SpacemanSpiff 16:54, 10 August 2011 (UTC)