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Costa Rica presidential elections, 2006

Yeah if that happens again, feel free to reprotect it. I usually don't like protecting articles linked from the main page, but when it's an organized attack like that, I have no problems with it. --Woohookitty 22:00, 7 February 2006 (UTC)

My RfA

Thanks!

Thank you for probing deeper into the matter. Would you also kindly help me protect my Talk Page from bullyish reverts?

No To Frauds 21:42, 20 March 2006 (UTC)

User:166.66.16.116

Hey, I noticed you blocked this user. I just wanted you to see his actual edit history & consider an indefinite ban on his IP range at least down to 166.66.16.xxx

I'm not watching this page, so delete this comment at will, & reply on my page... ;~D Grye 10:24, 8 February 2006 (UTC)

Thanks!

For removing Willy on Wheels from my user page. Cheers, Her Pegship 20:19, 8 February 2006 (UTC)

helpmebot

Hi pgk, I keep missing you on IRC so I'll leave a note here.

1. Have you gotten around to publishing the {{helpme}} occurrences, I think you said something about putting the log on the toolserver?
2. A feature request for helpmebot - would it be possible for !helpme to do a live check, instead of simply repeating the result of the last check. It doesn't matter much, I just thought it would be handy.--Commander Keane 10:52, 9 February 2006 (UTC)

pgkbot for windows errors

left pgkbkt running and reporting and it borke, heres the erros logs:

Microsoft Windows XP 
(C) Copyright 1985-2001 Microsoft Corp.
C:\Documents and Settings\me>cd\
C:\>cd pgkbot
C:\pgkbot>c:\python24\python.exe CVUBot.py en
2006/02/08 23:36 GMT Standard Time  Log opened.
2006/02/08 23:36 GMT Standard Time  Starting factory <IRCRCReader.ReaderFacto
ry instance at 0x00E602D8>
2006/02/08 23:36 GMT Standard Time  Starting factory <IRCConsole.ConsoleFacto
ry instance at 0x00E605A8>
2006/02/08 23:49 GMT Standard Time  Traceback (most recent ca
ll last):
          File "C:\Python24\lib\site-packages\twisted\internet\tcp.py", line 347
, in doRead
            return self.protocol.dataReceived(data)
          File "C:\Python24\lib\site-packages\twisted\words\protocols\irc.py", l
ine 1472, in dataReceived
            basic.LineReceiver.dataReceived(self, data.replace('\r', ''))
          File "C:\Python24\lib\site-packages\twisted\protocols\basic.py", line
232, in dataReceived
            why = self.lineReceived(line)
          File "C:\Python24\lib\site-packages\twisted\words\protocols\irc.py", l
ine 1480, in lineReceived
            self.handleCommand(command, prefix, params)
        --- <exception caught here> ---
          File "C:\Python24\lib\site-packages\twisted\words\protocols\irc.py", l
ine 1492, in handleCommand
            method(prefix, params)
          File "C:\Python24\lib\site-packages\twisted\words\protocols\irc.py", l
ine 1037, in irc_PRIVMSG
            self.privmsg(user, channel, message)
          File "C:\pgkbot\IRCConsole.py", line 152, in privmsg
            for processor in self.channeltoprocessor:
        exceptions.RuntimeError: dictionary changed size during iteration
2006/02/09 05:01 GMT Standard Time  Traceback (most recent ca
ll last):
          File "C:\Python24\lib\site-packages\twisted\internet\tcp.py", line 347
, in doRead
            return self.protocol.dataReceived(data)
          File "C:\Python24\lib\site-packages\twisted\words\protocols\irc.py", l
ine 1472, in dataReceived
            basic.LineReceiver.dataReceived(self, data.replace('\r', ''))
          File "C:\Python24\lib\site-packages\twisted\protocols\basic.py", line
232, in dataReceived
            why = self.lineReceived(line)
          File "C:\Python24\lib\site-packages\twisted\words\protocols\irc.py", l
ine 1480, in lineReceived
            self.handleCommand(command, prefix, params)
        --- <exception caught here> ---
          File "C:\Python24\lib\site-packages\twisted\words\protocols\irc.py", l
ine 1492, in handleCommand
            method(prefix, params)
          File "C:\Python24\lib\site-packages\twisted\words\protocols\irc.py", l
ine 1037, in irc_PRIVMSG
            self.privmsg(user, channel, message)
          File "C:\pgkbot\IRCConsole.py", line 152, in privmsg
            for processor in self.channeltoprocessor:
        exceptions.RuntimeError: dictionary changed size during iteration
2006/02/09 17:16 GMT Standard Time  Traceback (most recent call
 last):
          File "C:\Python24\lib\site-packages\twisted\internet\tcp.py", line 347
, in doRead
            return self.protocol.dataReceived(data)
          File "C:\Python24\lib\site-packages\twisted\words\protocols\irc.py", l
ine 1472, in dataReceived
            basic.LineReceiver.dataReceived(self, data.replace('\r', ''))
          File "C:\Python24\lib\site-packages\twisted\protocols\basic.py", line
232, in dataReceived
            why = self.lineReceived(line)
          File "C:\Python24\lib\site-packages\twisted\words\protocols\irc.py", l
ine 1480, in lineReceived
            self.handleCommand(command, prefix, params)
        --- <exception caught here> ---
          File "C:\Python24\lib\site-packages\twisted\words\protocols\irc.py", l
ine 1492, in handleCommand
            method(prefix, params)
          File "C:\Python24\lib\site-packages\twisted\words\protocols\irc.py", l
ine 1037, in irc_PRIVMSG
            self.privmsg(user, channel, message)
          File "C:\pgkbot\IRCRCReader.py", line 83, in privmsg
            self.factory.RCProcessors.doRCEvent(rcEvent)
          File "C:\pgkbot\RCProcessor.py", line 1087, in doRCEvent
            self.processBlockEditor(rcevent)
          File "C:\pgkbot\RCProcessor.py", line 864, in processBlockEditor
            expiresecs = eval(gotetime.group(2)) * self.convSecs[gotetime.group(
3).lower()]
        exceptions.KeyError: 'january 2017'
2006/02/09 17:42 GMT Standard Time  Traceback (most recent call
 last):
          File "C:\Python24\lib\site-packages\twisted\internet\tcp.py", line 347
, in doRead
            return self.protocol.dataReceived(data)
          File "C:\Python24\lib\site-packages\twisted\words\protocols\irc.py", l
ine 1472, in dataReceived
            basic.LineReceiver.dataReceived(self, data.replace('\r', ''))
          File "C:\Python24\lib\site-packages\twisted\protocols\basic.py", line
232, in dataReceived
            why = self.lineReceived(line)
          File "C:\Python24\lib\site-packages\twisted\words\protocols\irc.py", l
ine 1480, in lineReceived
            self.handleCommand(command, prefix, params)
        --- <exception caught here> ---
          File "C:\Python24\lib\site-packages\twisted\words\protocols\irc.py", l
ine 1492, in handleCommand
            method(prefix, params)
          File "C:\Python24\lib\site-packages\twisted\words\protocols\irc.py", l
ine 1037, in irc_PRIVMSG
            self.privmsg(user, channel, message)
          File "C:\pgkbot\IRCRCReader.py", line 83, in privmsg
            self.factory.RCProcessors.doRCEvent(rcEvent)
          File "C:\pgkbot\RCProcessor.py", line 1087, in doRCEvent
            self.processBlockEditor(rcevent)
          File "C:\pgkbot\RCProcessor.py", line 864, in processBlockEditor
            expiresecs = eval(gotetime.group(2)) * self.convSecs[gotetime.group(
3).lower()]
        exceptions.KeyError: 'fortnight'

—The preceding unsigned comment was added by Benon (talk • contribs) .

ah good, just thought i might be something you needed to know about :)Benon 23:03, 10 February 2006 (UTC)

Latest Definitions?

Titoxd] asked me to ask you for the latest definitions of pgkbot for windows... I assume you know what I am talking about *crosses fingers* I have my own bot set-up now so that's why I asked. --Pilotguy 19:13, 11 February 2006 (UTC)

Also if you have a copy of pgkbot and a copy of the list files, so I can possibly sync it with the other CVU bots. I realise you're releasing another one soon but it'll be most helpful to me. --Pilotguy 21:44, 11 February 2006 (UTC)

Thank you

Hello Pgk, thank you for you support in my RfA. I was promoted with a final count of 48/1/0! If you see me making any mistakes, let me know ASAP. -- WB 02:15, 15 February 2006 (UTC)

WP:RFA/Quarl

Hi pkg, thanks for participating in my AFD, which succeeded. While you voted oppose, I hope I will not disappoint you. If I can ever improve or help in any way, please let me know! :) —Quarl 2006-02-16 12:27Z

Reverts to my talk and userpage

Thanks for reverting the nonsense on my talk and user page. The vandal appears to be slightly confused; calling me a fascist because I "follow the philosophy of "Resistance is Futile"". Apparently history is now taught in school using the Star Trek films. Anyway, cheers.Leithp 18:30, 16 February 2006 (UTC)

RFA Thanks!

Thank you! Hello Pgk/archive2, and thank you for your support in my request for adminship! It passed with a final count of 98/2/0. If there is anything I can do to help you, please leave me a message on my talk page! -- xaosflux

rfa

"On various occassions I have seen him take actions which show lack of familiarity with process and policy."

Indeed. Even though I've read upon many policy pages, and gone through pages petaining to important aspects of wikipedia, I still haven't gotten to all of them. I must admit, I do sometimes construct an action if I am ignorant; such is my nature. However, I can assure you it will never be disruptive. Perhaps I could suggest an addmenneum...? If I am ever in the gray area again, I'll make sure to make an inquiry before the desision, hopefully avoiding a negative situation. Do you think it's a good idea..? I'd like to hear your humble opinion. Please respond on my talkpage. -Zero 18:47, 17 February 2006 (UTC)

I've replied on my talkpage. -Zero 19:19, 17 February 2006 (UTC)

Help with writing a bot

Hi, I'm rather skilled programmer with 0 expirience in coding bots. I asked for some basic start-up help on #wikipedia-en, and Cool_Cat pointed at you. So, here's what my question is: where can I found some quick and dirty howtos for writing bots? Or, if there isn't any, can you help me by answering few fairly simple questions? I'm quite sure that I won't take you too much time. Just to tell me few very basic things, I'll manage from that point on by my self. --Dijxtra 17:56, 18 February 2006 (UTC)

A bot for updating Misplaced Pages. To be more precies, a bot which would help me maintain WP:AID. So, I need to get the page, do some parsing and then upload it back. I think I saw some wiki interfaces for PERL and python.... I did dome work in PERL, so PERL's fine. I never coded in python, but I worked a lot with C++, C# and PHP, so I think that learning python wouldn't be a problem (if I got it right, python isnt that much different, but even if it is - I love learning new languages). It would be beauuuuuuutiful if that could be done in PHP, so I could make a web interface for the bot or with Java applet (which too could be accessed via web)... --Dijxtra 11:32, 19 February 2006 (UTC)

Oh, it all finally started to make some sence (I spent some time reading other bots' code). If I got ith right, all I need to access the wiki, get the page and post the page back is in wikipedia.py? OK, OK, now I started to realize that everything can be picked up from the code provided in the framework... --Dijxtra 10:04, 20 February 2006 (UTC)

Hi there, I have a problem which I hope you can help me with. I wrote a beauuuutiful bot which does wonders to my local offline copy to WP:AID. I retrieved this offline copy with the code I use in this script. So, yesterday the wikipedia.Page.get() method worked just nice, but today it throws exceptions:

C:\Documents and Settings\nick\Desktop\pywikipedia>python AIDbot.py
Checked for running processes. 1 processes currently running, including the curr
ent process.
Getting page ]
 (10061, 'Connection refused')
WARNING: Could not load 'http://en.wikipedia.org/search/?title=Misplaced Pages%3AA
rticle%20Improvement%20Drive&action=edit'. Maybe the server or your connection i
s down. Retrying in 1 minutes...

Then I do ctrl+c, and here's what I get:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "AIDbot.py", line 122, in ?
    main()
  File "AIDbot.py", line 92, in main
    page=p.get()
  File "C:\Documents and Settings\nick\Desktop\pywikipedia\wikipedia.py", line 3
74, in get
    self._contents, self._isWatched, self.editRestriction = self.getEditPage(get
_redirect = get_redirect, throttle = throttle, sysop = sysop)
  File "C:\Documents and Settings\nick\Desktop\pywikipedia\wikipedia.py", line 4
16, in getEditPage
    text = self.site().getUrl(path, sysop = sysop)
  File "C:\Documents and Settings\nick\Desktop\pywikipedia\wikipedia.py", line 2
177, in getUrl
    time.sleep(retry_idle_time * 60)
KeyboardInterrupt
C:\Documents and Settings\nick\Desktop\pywikipedia>

So, ti obviously chokes at wikipedia.Page.get() method. Have you had any similar problems?

My RfA

Block 212.135.1.184

I noticed you were involved in previous blocks on User 212.135.1.184, which is assigned to a publc school in the UK. The user is at it again, today invoking large vandalism on 2006 Winter Olympics highlights. It might be worth another warning or block. Crunch 12:57, 21 February 2006 (UTC)

My RfA

Thanks for voting! Although this is a bit late in coming, I want to thank you for voting (no matter what your vote was) in my recent request for adminship. You might be aware that it did not pass due to a lack of consensus. The final tally was 21/9/10. I think I will try again this spring or summer after I have gained a bit more experience and met a few more fellow editors. Thanks again!

--MatthewUND 05:37, 23 February 2006 (UTC)

Thanks - from HSchickel

Thank you

blah blah blah

you should be less concerned with cussing and more concerned with crazy people rewriting facts with doubletalk.

now maybe i could behave a little more politely. then again, nobody was ever polite to me when they erased my articles or reverted my changes to the dozens of articles i have worked on in the past... for purely POV reasons. erasing my plain statements of fact and saying facts are 'too pov'. erasing my reference links. things like that.

and i never saw a[REDACTED] 'administrator' come to my rescue either. and ive done it from many different IPs so dont go looking for history. but it happened and thats why i dont trust this thing.

Help

DR doesn't work with him, he's already had 2 RFC's. Ardenn 19:37, 26 February 2006 (UTC)

pgkbot suggestion/request

I've been in #wikipedia-en-vandalism for the past few days, and I've noticed one thing that I find faintly irritating and/or improveable.

Specifically, I find it a little hard to, with the colors you're using, locate and click on the diff links - could you consider either uncoloring for them, or setting them to a somewhat more contrasting color? (In case you don't know, in mIRCScript, if you want to just end a color and allow it to revert to the default color for everyone looking at it, you just use control+k without a number after it.) Michael Ralston 06:09, 27 February 2006 (UTC) koj

Thanks!

Many thanks for reverting the vandalism on my talk page. One of our long time vandals is having a bad day, it would seem, and has graduated from "subtle" to "outright". Kuru 00:00, 28 February 2006 (UTC)

My RfA

My request for adminship ended with a tally of 39/5/4, and I am now an admin.

I must say that yours was the most well-reasoned of my oppose votes, and it made me stop and think about why I want to be an admin. I really do plan to, for the most part, just get on with editing. However, I still see adminship occasionally being useful in my editing, and it is those occasions that made me apply.

To contradict my last statement somewhat, though, I've just come across the huge backlog at WP:PROD. It looks like I do have some chores I'll be doing soon. rspeer / ɹəədsɹ 06:08, 3 March 2006 (UTC)

My RfA

Thank you for your constructive critisizm during my RfA! It has decided to postpone making me an administrator based upon recent consensus (or lack thereof). Thanks for the kind remarks and I hope to continue to see you around the project. Cheers, Zsinj 08:37, 4 March 2006 (UTC)

My RfA

Thank you for your support in my request for adminship. I'm delighted that the RfA succeeded with a final consensus of 52/17/7, and receiving comments including having 'excellent potential to become a great moderator', and I am now an administrator. It did however only just pass, and I shall do my very best to rectify any of my errors, including the general belief that I should do more article work. If you have any concerns, or if you ever feel that I may be able to help you, please feel free to leave a message on my talk page. Again, thank you!

Many thanks

for your unbelievably speedy help on my "help me" request! elizmr 18:52, 10 March 2006 (UTC)

Bailing out

I am bailing out from the vandal fighting project. I will no longer develop or host my bot. Thought you'd want to know. It really isn't worth the effort. --Cool Cat 10:18, 11 March 2006 (UTC)

Barnstar

This morning's events have reminded me that this is long overdue. Thank you for all the hard work you do. Essjay 11:46, 11 March 2006 (UTC)

Thank You.

Thanks for the help on the Wilcox County page. Your advice worked! CharlesM 13:45, 11 March 2006 (UTC)

chrs m8

Only joking. Thanks for the info. --Dan| 17:11, 11 March 2006 (UTC)

You are named in an ARBCOM Proceeding regarding Jeffrey Vernon Merkey Article

See WP:ARBCOM for the details. Waya sahoni 04:10, 12 March 2006 (UTC)

Can helpmebot service the Norwegians?

I have translated the {{Helpme}} template for the Norwegian WP – no.wikipedia.org – as {{hjelp}}. Do you think it would be possible to have helpmebot notify the channel #Misplaced Pages-no (chanmode "+n") when this feature is evoked and the user appears in the category no:Kategori:Wikipedianere som trenger hjelp ? --meco 11:00, 16 March 2006 (UTC)

Saving my user talk page

Thanks! Girolamo Savonarola 17:38, 18 March 2006 (UTC)

Barnstar

The Tireless Contributor Barnstar You most certainly deserve this Computerjoe's talk 21:52, 20 March 2006 (UTC)

Hash nonsense.

No real need to follow up on Jeff's nonsense. It fails at the first post. The hashes are salted. Because of the salt, every password hash is unique, even if they are the same password, and the chance of any two of them being the same, here or anywhere is close to zero. Probably at least in the order 1 in 2^128. Or birthday paradox might reduce that to 1 in 2^64, but it is a big bloody number (or should that be a small bloody number?), depending on the implementation.

In any case, no-one could use the[REDACTED] hash to 'pass the hash' on wikigadugi or anywhere else.

Reverting cruft off my user page

Hey, thanks for getting that junk off. I have absolutely no idea why Peelo did that, but it's nice that someone's around to help the rest of us out. --Sporkot 07:58, 24 March 2006 (UTC)

from 0Waldo

Why did you just revert my link? Please put it back. 0waldo 15:53, 25 March 2006 (UTC) The link has been there FOREVER until my friend JeffQ had it axed because he was pizzzed at me! It needs to be there because it is a good link! 0waldo 15:57, 25 March 2006 (UTC)

Thanks

Thanks for cleaning up after that vandal on my user page! --MJ 17:10, 25 March 2006 (UTC)

pgkbot

Is it intentional the amount of regexes in the new user reporting? Sceptre 19:09, 25 March 2006 (UTC)

Pusselbiten för goda gärningar

I Grön present you with this "barnstar" of the swedish[REDACTED] for all your help with the swedish CVU tools. The name means "the puzzlepice for good deads" and is given to people who have done that lite extra to be generus and helpfull. /Grön 09:11, 27 March 2006 (UTC)

Thank you

Your taking a little time to respond nicely is appreciated. You are the first to not impugn or take punitive action. Thank you. PunchingBag 13:09, 28 March 2006 (UTC)

User:Croatian historian

Your block of this user is dubious at best. It seems to rest on the fact that he removed messages from his Talk page; this is not a blockable offence. The claim that he has engaged in personal abuse isn't backed up by the examples at which I've looked, though he's been involved in slanging matches in which both sides have been hot headed. I've unblocked him; please don't block again unless there are genuine grounds. --Mel Etitis (Μελ Ετητης) 16:55, 28 March 2006 (UTC)

I agree that his watchlist is confrontational, and I've commented it out and asked him if he'd delete it as a sign of good faith; it's also not a blockable offence, though, as has been established in many such cases (I'm doubtless on a fair fe wsuch lists myself, together with most active admins). The first bit of advice at WP:TALK struck me as good, but the reference to WP:VAND is peculiar; I don't know when it was included, but I've raised it at the Talk page. Vandalism of the encyclopædia is obviously a serious issue, and article Talk pages need to be protected too, but I think that extending the notion to user talk pages is going too far (making the process as important as the product).

Note that some, at least, of the warnings on his page were placed there without any good reason by people who opposed him in disputes at articles, and he was perfectly within his rights to delete them. --Mel Etitis (Μελ Ετητης) 17:56, 28 March 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for your message. I agree that genuine warnings shouldn't be removed (this is, of course, more often a problem with anons, and there I have no hesitation in replacing the warnings, and even blocking and protecting if they're removed, because no-one "owns" and anon IP Talk page); I think, though, that when a named editor does it, it's important to check the validity of the removed warnings before taking action (in the past I've deleted mischievous and fake warnings from my own User page).

Anyway, I hope that things have sorted themselves out now; it's certainly going to be worth keeping an eye on all these editors (though I've protected the main focus of their warring, Serbophobia, which might take some of the heat off for the moment). --Mel Etitis (Μελ Ετητης) 09:27, 29 March 2006 (UTC)

206.208.133.233

Thank you for blocking 206.208.133.233. What a jerk. Boofox 21:59, 30 March 2006 (UTC)

Sorry

Sorry about that. I'm trying to answer questions on Special Relativity and can't do them and am getting very stressed. Just then I lost my temper completely. Sorry--84.71.2.100 15:26, 1 April 2006 (UTC)

Obvious violation of policy, abusive behavior.

Pages on Deletion Review should remain for a minimum of 5 days. Please read Misplaced Pages:Undeletion_policy#Restoring_the_page_.28for_admins.29. Also don't mark reverts as "minor", a total page change like that obviously is not a Misplaced Pages:Minor edit. Bob, just Bob 19:56, 1 April 2006 (UTC)

Please also see Wikipedia_talk:Deletion_review/Userbox_debates#Blanking_of_DrV_debates_by_User:Doc_glasgow_and_User:Pgk. Bob, just Bob 20:01, 1 April 2006 (UTC)

Thank you

For reverting my user talk page after vandalism. DavidFarmbrough 06:52, 3 April 2006 (UTC)

Anon you just blocked

I suggest you semi-protect or protect his talk page so he doesn't keep removing warnings. JoshuaZ 18:24, 3 April 2006 (UTC)

The help I need

I'm trying to get the Community Portal changed back to the version I spent many weeks working on. The page has been reverted to a version months ago, and an admin came along and locked that version. I called for a vote to get the page changed back! What I need to know is how to get the talk page system changed so that it actually promotes general feedback rather than being a mere criticism network. 'Cuz it sure seems like complainers are more likely to post on talk pagers than praisers/encouragers. It wasn't until I called for a vote that any supporters showed up on the talk page at all! How can we change this??? Can we add buttons to every page for this? --Go for it! 20:34, 3 April 2006 (UTC)

Is there anything else I missed in my efforts to get the Community Portal restored? What else can I do to promote its restoration? --Go for it! 20:45, 3 April 2006 (UTC)

Jedi6 Userpage

Thanks for reverting the vandalism done to my userpage! Jedi6-(need help?) 21:18, 3 April 2006 (UTC)

pgkbot

Hi, I noticed that pgkbot wasn't saying anything anymore in #vandalism-en-wp-2. Any specific reason or did it broke? Was thinking about letting Vandalfighter listen to that channel as well, rather then the #vandalism-en-wp, since that one is more complicated with userchecks and the like as well as containing general users who might feel uncomfortable with a bunch of vf... nicks :) Henna 06:39, 5 April 2006 (UTC)

It just needs someone to make is speak Sceptre 13:30, 6 April 2006 (UTC)

test

--pgk 07:01, 6 April 2006 (UTC)

helpmebot

For the moment the helpmebot seems to go unattended in the norwegian channel. The original poster seems to have posted a request for this service yet he isn't around. How do we control it? What does it log, if anything, how can we shut it of in case of vandalism, who's in charge of the bot, and who is the controlling part on the norwegian channel? Thanks. I would prefer if you responded at no:Misplaced Pages:Tinget, or at no:User talk:Agtfjott or at #wikipedia-no. — John Erling Blad (no) 09:08, 7 April 2006 (UTC)

The Masterpiece

The user in question has reposted the content a couple of times after the deletion (and repeatedly removed speedy tags noting it as reposted) - do you think that the page needs to be protected? --DMG413 18:13, 8 April 2006 (UTC)

What did I do, exactly...

Wow.... what did I do?

Is it safe for me to test the bot on my user subpages?, Or will I trigger the block agian? Thank you very much!!

Eagle (talk) (desk) 23:10, 8 April 2006 (UTC)

fact template usage

I urge you to look at the situation closely. Please, please have a look at the history of the relevant articles. I am not getting a fair hearing here. Mel Etitis was blocked himself for 24 hours on the day in question for 3RR, and he clearly feels very frustrated that others were able to work on these articles while he was blocked. Please look into this case properly and in detail: it is not as has been presented. --Mais oui! 10:31, 9 April 2006 (UTC)

I don't believe this: I have just read Mel Etitis accccusations in detail and found this:

• "While the AfD discussion was continuing (and it was obvious from the outset that the overwhelming consensus was to keep the article) the nominator deleted all references to the county flowers from the relevant county and city articles, citing the AfD."

That is just not true!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! It was User:Bwithh who did that: . This allegation is unbelievable. Where on earth is a single shred of evidence to back up Mel Etitis allegations????? --Mais oui! 10:41, 9 April 2006 (UTC)

Thank you for at least trying to be nice. I appreciate it. Please, please request from Mel Etitis at least some links to back up his allegation. Look very carefully at what he wrote: it is 100% opinion and 0% evidence. Please look into this, because we cannot have admins coming to immediate summary justice without even a shred of evidence. I urge you, this is most unjust. --Mais oui! 10:55, 9 April 2006 (UTC)

You say "not to stubbornly push forward but to stop and discuss". Please see the Talk page message I left on MelEtitis Talk page 2 days ago! He chose to ignore the opportunity to discuss, and a few moments ago "archived" that message. I wonder why? Is it because he wants other Admins, like you, to believe that I will not communicate? The truth is quite the opposite, it is him that brushes off all opportunities to discuss. I demand that that bullying message he left on my Talk page is removed forthwith. He has behaved, and is continuing to behave, appallingly, and I will not let this matter rest until he has been reprimanded. --Mais oui! 12:08, 9 April 2006 (UTC)

Mel Etitis has just made a claim that you "support his view". Is that still true? I would appreciate it if you clarified you current stance on the matter at AN. --Mais oui! 15:09, 9 April 2006 (UTC)

IP block: Slashme

Hi, thanks for your post on my talk page. It seems the block has either expired, or has been removed. --Slashme 11:07, 9 April 2006 (UTC)

Matt Leinart

I see the infamous Matt Leinart vandal is back. I also see that he has fallen back on one of his many sockpuppets, "mattleinartfan" or some such, which for some reason apparently wasn't blocked, and is probably old enough to be able to get around the semi-protect option. Wahkeenah 07:59, 10 April 2006 (UTC)

• Never mind, an Admin blocked him. He's a persistent little devil. He was blocked for a week, from the 2nd, and within a day of being unblocked, he was back at it. The one user has now been permanently blocked, so he'll have to find another sockpuppet to add to his list of 2 or 3 dozen. What a looney. Wahkeenah 09:29, 10 April 2006 (UTC)

Thanks

Ta for the revert :) --Alf 17:33, 10 April 2006 (UTC)

PSConclave

How come my article for PSConclave was deleted? (just curious)

--Elliotgoodrich 22:56, 10 April 2006 (UTC)

A same person

But, he it is the same person with many accounts and he rev. all my works. Sorry but this is key point. And Im wrkin in Albanian Wiki I dont have so much time. He is doing servel time in this year with differen accounts.

Hipi Zhdripi

Hipi Zhdripi has been breaking his 3RR 24h ban. See here, here and here. Please, let me know if you can do anything about it. Regards, Asterion 01:35, 11 April 2006 (UTC)

Kosovo

See: Talk:Serbia --Hipi Zhdripi 19:50, 11 April 2006 (UTC)

sprotect remove

You can remove the

As a result of recent vandalism, or to stop blocked editors from editing, editing of this page by new or unregistered users is temporarily disabled. Changes can be discussed on the talk page, or you can request unprotection.

from The Holocaust now. Should be quiet now. --Scott Grayban 19:55, 11 April 2006 (UTC)

Is there any doubt that Sint Holo is Jeff?

Seems pretty obvious to me. --Vryl 05:38, 12 April 2006 (UTC)

Pgkbot oldconfig files

Are there any updated versions?

Rich nffc

Hey Pgk. As you were the first to reply to Rich nffc's request to be unblocked, thought you should know he also emailed me (as I was the one who blocked him), and I've decided to give him a last chance (reduced his block to a week). He was very apologetic, and perhaps his vandalism was more a case of not really understanding what Misplaced Pages is, rather than an outright attempt to ruin things for others. I say perhaps, because he may just be an outright vandal. But, WP:AGF and all that, so he's on his last warning, and I'll be keeping a very close eye on him when he returns. Cheers, Proto||type 14:54, 13 April 2006 (UTC)

hmm

User:PoolGuy

When an admin inappropriately blocks a user, it should be reasonable to think that a user could ask for the basis of the block. Seeking the answer to a question is not harrassment. If you look at the history, Nlu repeatedly inserted himself in the inquiry to block and comment. It is unjustified to call that Admin harrassed. It is clear that you did not research this and have overreacted. Nlu was not the original blocking Admin. That original blocking Admin ignored inquiries when emailed. Nlu chose to block and protect pages preventing the user from seeking assistance from other Admins.

You claim that the user is rules lawyering, and that appears to be an unfortunate response to the demonstrated fact that there has not been a policy violation, and there is no other response that an admin can use than to say that it is unfair that a Wikipedian is using Misplaced Pages policies to prevent an Admin from carrying out the harrassment that they want to implore. Since the user does not have Admin authority, it appears that protecting the User Talk page is just a means to shut the user up. What an unfortunate bullying tactic.

There are lots of socks because Nlu was on a blocking spree. Please unprotect the user talk page to allow the user to communicate there. OriginalOne 13:23, 14 April 2006 (UTC)