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ANI

There is a discussion on an article that you and I both had protected here Dennis Brown - 2¢ © Join WER 16:33, 17 April 2013 (UTC)

Thanks, looks like the fun's already over. --Bongwarrior (talk) 17:50, 17 April 2013 (UTC)

Charles Karel Bouley

Thank you for you assistance on Karel's page. The vile vandalism is an ongoing problem. There was a permanent block on his page for a couple years (by Sarek, who knows the history). When blocks are removed the vandalism starts up again. Would you consider re-instating a permanent block on his page? It makes life easier for us all. Namaste — DocOfSoc • Talk • 01:47, 18 April 2013 (UTC)

I was thinking about it, and I'll do something or other if it happens again. I'm thinking that pending changes might be a slightly better option here, but I'm not sure. --Bongwarrior (talk) 12:49, 18 April 2013 (UTC)

So far so good...for now! TY Namaste! — DocOfSoc • Talk • 02:59, 4 May 2013 (UTC)

Template:In the news

Hi! Could you check this edit, as I think it has broken the "nocurrenteventslink" logic. Over at Portal:Current events, there is an ugly black "More current events..." label, which the nocurrenteventslink parameter is supposed to eliminate. -- John of Reading (talk) 21:14, 24 April 2013 (UTC)

I think it may have been broken before that. I've either fixed it or broken it more. --Bongwarrior (talk) 21:33, 24 April 2013 (UTC)

Looks good to me! Thanks for fixing. -- John of Reading (talk) 21:37, 24 April 2013 (UTC)

Special:Contributions/98.253.183.3

Thanks for the block. Would you mind extending it since that IP is also an open proxy? Legoktm (talk) 18:29, 25 April 2013 (UTC)

Thanks for letting me know - someone else extended it while I was looking at it. --Bongwarrior (talk) 18:34, 25 April 2013 (UTC)

A friendly IP

Wow, you must have really pissed this one off. Check the diffs  Yintan  10:52, 1 May 2013 (UTC)

Sounds like another satisfied customer. --Bongwarrior (talk) 04:50, 4 May 2013 (UTC)

Duane Chapman

Would you please totally erase the last incredibly disgusting Comment on the Chapman page. It has been removed but needs to disappear! TY! Namste! — DocOfSoc • Talk • 03:06, 4 May 2013 (UTC)

Good idea, done. --Bongwarrior (talk) 04:48, 4 May 2013 (UTC)

Thank you so much! — DocOfSoc • Talk • 11:41, 4 May 2013 (UTC)

Apology

I apologize to User:Cyphoidbomb for what I did wrong. 99.229.41.79 (talk) 11:29, 8 May 2013 (UTC)

Sorry to intrude...

Hey, Bongwarrior, I was going through trying to get some rough usage statistics for my orange bar script when I noticed that you seem to be having issues with its installation. The problem is that the "importScript" part needs to be in the monobook.js page, not the .css page. I've switched some things around for you: here's the change to the monobook.css page and here's the change to the monobook.js page. Let me know if it starts working, or if you have any other issues. Thanks! Writ Keeper ⚇♔ 13:26, 13 May 2013 (UTC)

Thank you. I was hoping that the bar would have been restored for everyone by now, but I got tired of waiting. We'll see if that did the trick. --Bongwarrior (talk) 00:29, 14 May 2013 (UTC)

ITN: Carbon dioxide measurements

In "Measurements of carbon dioxide in Earth's atmosphere exceed 400 parts per million, the highest level since the Pliocene epoch", could you please change the Wikilink behind "Measurements" to Keeling Curve, because that is the article on the actual measurement, not the institution that conducts it. --bender235 (talk) 15:13, 13 May 2013 (UTC)

Sounds like a good idea, thank you for the suggestion. --Bongwarrior (talk) 00:22, 14 May 2013 (UTC)

Deletion of Tears of the Innocent

I posted a i portance of the page there and it still got deleted.Tearsoftheinnocent (talk) 22:58, 14 May 2013 (UTC)

I'm sorry, but it needs to demonstrate encyclopedic importance. Since the band has yet to even release an album, it doesn't appear that they need to be covered in an encyclopedia just yet. --Bongwarrior (talk) 23:34, 14 May 2013 (UTC)

Kai the Hatchet Wielding Hitchhiker

I'd like to know why you decided Kai was too insignificant for Misplaced Pages.

21:58, 5 February 2013 Bongwarrior (talk | contribs) deleted page Kai hitchhiker (A7: No explanation of the subject's significance (real person, animal, organization, web content or organized event))

The guy's a meme, has gone viral with millions of viewers, been on Kimmel, discussed on Colbert, et alii, etc. etc. And this week he's supposedly murdered somebody and was a fugitive until arrested last night (16 May 2013).

It strikes me as kind of an arbitrary decision, a matter of your own personal taste, and certainly unfair that one Misplaced Pages editor can decide what and who is significant or not.

The most curious part about your deletion, by far, is that your own User Page features the big giant quote:

"Misplaced Pages is the best thing ever. Anyone in the world can write anything they want about any subject, so you know you are getting the best possible information."

Not only is that highly ironic, but I'm very sorry to say that it's somewhat hypocritical. I don't mean to be rude, but I'm afraid I don't know any other word for it. Sorry.

Ghengis Fresh (talk) 16:50, 17 May 2013 (UTC)

Comment Please remember to assume good faith. I've reviewed the deleted content, and it did not appear to meet inclusion guidelines at the time of its deletion in February (it looks to me like the deleted content was cut-and-pasted from elsewhere, a no-no, and it was written in an inappropriate tone, poorly sourced and wasn't really in compliance with biography of living persons policy). Things change, and maybe the subject's eligible for inclusion now, probably under his real name rather than the meme. There is no bar to appropriate, well-sourced re-creation of deleted content. It appears to me that deletion was the proper decision, given the time and the content. I'd suggest reading WP:BLP, WP:BLP1E (which, despite its name, probably still applies), and WP:BLPCRIME. And again, please do not turn a concern about a deletion into a personalized complaint. Acroterion (talk) 17:07, 17 May 2013 (UTC)

My response to comment below about Kai:

Well, why were those reasons not given originally? It's hard to have good faith under those conditions.

In any event, it hardly seems right that one person can decide what is and is not significant. Ghengis Fresh (talk) 17:15, 17 May 2013 (UTC)

It's a deletion log, not an extended meditation on what, at the time of its deletion, looked like a poorly-written account of a single event that clearly didn't meet the notability guidelines. That's what "no indication of notability" means, and administrators are delegated the permission to make such judgments by the community. As I noted, deletion isn't forever, unless it's clear vandalism, defamatory, an invasion of privacy, a hoax or the result of a community discussion. Give it some time, once you spend a while around here you'll understand how and why things work the way they do. Acroterion (talk) 17:24, 17 May 2013 (UTC)

What the hell

Why did you take down my jakevile page — Preceding unsigned comment added by Wizardjake47 (talk • contribs) 00:53, 18 May 2013 (UTC)

I deleted it because you said it was the capital of Alaska. You lied to Misplaced Pages :( --Bongwarrior (talk) 01:04, 18 May 2013 (UTC)

Thanks

UFC_on_FX:_Belfort_vs._Rockhold needed someone to save it. You were the hero we needed, not the one we deserved. Redlink - 02:33, 19 May 2013 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.187.65.218 (talk)

Yeah, those events usually get hammered pretty good. Thanks to you for keeping after it; I know it's not an easy thing to fix when the traffic is heavy like that. --Bongwarrior (talk) 05:33, 19 May 2013 (UTC)

Vandal back

Hi, Bongwarrior! A few weeks ago you temporarily blocked User talk:67.52.152.26 for vandalism. The block has expired and they are back at it. Just FYI. --MelanieN (talk) 19:28, 21 May 2013 (UTC)

Thanks, I'll keep an eye on it. --Bongwarrior (talk) 03:05, 22 May 2013 (UTC)

Another Vandal you had to deal with last year is back tooUser talk:Manalong. Probably should watch him. Redddbaron (talk) 14:15, 24 May 2013 (UTC)

Will do, thank you. --Bongwarrior (talk) 10:29, 25 May 2013 (UTC)

Appreciation Message

Appreciate the talk page protection. =) - Amaury (talk) 09:19, 27 May 2013 (UTC)

You are welcome. I thought you wouldn't mind a short break. --Bongwarrior (talk) 09:21, 27 May 2013 (UTC)

Well, thank you. It's 2:24 AM here, anyway, so I should be heading to bed, haha! - Amaury (talk) 09:24, 27 May 2013 (UTC)

Same. Please keep an eye on this IP-jumping vandal; you may need to block unregistered users from acanac.net temporarily, or multiple netblocks (though it'll probably be harder to track those down ahead of time), as that user is able to easily change IPs within multiple assigned blocks. BGP info confirms a bunch of possible netblocks with similar metrics in that AS. (Stupid ISPs assigning way too much non-contiguous space to a single general location for no good reason.) – 2001:db8:: (rfc | diff) 09:29, 27 May 2013 (UTC)

A cheeseburger for you!

For clearing my talk page of the dump that the vandal put on it. It appears that he did the same to your talk page. Robert McClenon (talk) 23:58, 31 May 2013 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

	The Barnstar of Diplomacy
	meh Mikeomalley (talk) 16:47, 4 June 2013 (UTC)

Smile!

Hello Bongwarrior, Eduemoni has given you a shining smiling star! You see, these things promote WikiLove and hopefully this has made your day better. Spread the Shining Smiling Star whether it be someone you have had disagreements with in the past or someone putting up with some stick at this time. Enjoy! Eduemoni 14:06, 6 June 2013 (UTC)

Thanks for protecting Amanda Platell

It was semi'ed for a week, and then basically as soon as it expired, the anons and SPAs came charging back. NorthBySouthBaranof (talk) 20:07, 8 June 2013 (UTC)

Glad to help. The situation seems to be getting a bit out of hand, so I thought locking it down for a week might be beneficial. --Bongwarrior (talk) 20:12, 8 June 2013 (UTC)

Offensive edit message

Re this edit: I don't know the movie, I do find the edit notice very offensive. I think it probably does sum up the editor's attitude to other editors, given my experience of interactions with him. I mentioned it at ANI but it was ignored. (In followup to that, I raised a discussion, the unhelpful responses to which were enough to make me consider abandoning the encyclopedia.) PamD 07:56, 11 June 2013 (UTC)

It's from Full Metal Jacket. As someone who is familiar with the movie, it still strikes me as a spectacularly bad idea for an edit notice, and I'm hoping that he'll recognize that and change it of his own accord. --Bongwarrior (talk) 17:31, 11 June 2013 (UTC)

Meameamealokkapoowa oompa

This page was popular in[REDACTED] so many creations and deletions. And i was bringed from http://googology.wikia.com/User:Cloudy176/What%3F. 115.66.230.85 (talk) 05:59, 9 June 2013 (UTC) REALLY Need respone.

Sorry, what kind of response? You haven't asked a question. If you want me to undelete or unprotect the page, I'm afraid I can't do that. --Bongwarrior (talk) 01:21, 10 June 2013 (UTC)

I am not asking to un-(action). Just saying that the source is http://www.polytope.net/hedrondude/scrapers.htm. And that page says that meameamealokkapoowa oompa is popular. And tokker is not FB100Z.115.66.230.85 (talk) 01:32, 10 June 2013 (UTC)

This is 115.66.230.85, and i am saying that http://googology.wikia.com/Googology_Wiki:About#Googology_Wiki, it said that[REDACTED] is strict. And thats the sources are not rich enough. 119.234.28.135 (talk) 09:06, 22 June 2013 (UTC)

More or less, yes. I'm not sure that I'd consider us strict, but all content must be verifiable by reliable sources. --Bongwarrior (talk) 04:03, 23 June 2013 (UTC)

Hope you don't mind

I have semi-protected your user page for two weeks to defeat ongoing sock vandalism. --John (talk) 19:41, 16 June 2013 (UTC)

Not at all, thank you. --Bongwarrior (talk) 19:57, 16 June 2013 (UTC)

Many thanks

Hello B. Just wanted to say thanks for taking care of both articles and the IP from Indonesia that was messing with them. I noticed that you had to do more than just protect the pages including removing fake GA stuff and bogus cats. Your thoroughness is much appreciated. Enjoy the rest of your weekend. MarnetteD | Talk 04:46, 23 June 2013 (UTC)

I just saw your post about the fact that the articles hadn't been protected before. Tricky little disruptor. Apologies for missing that. Considering the number of IPs used they may be back when the protection expires but I will try and keep an eye on that. Thanks again. MarnetteD | Talk 04:52, 23 June 2013 (UTC)

No problem. I opted for rather longish protections because it seems like this has been going on for a while - in most cases, a first-time protection would have been in the neighborhood of a few days to a week. Hopefully this solves the problem for a while. --Bongwarrior (talk) 04:59, 23 June 2013 (UTC)

Thanks much

I see you protected Theodore Rex (film). No need to switch to PC. I only requested PC over semi because the last time I requested semi for an article (SR-22 (insurance)), I got PC instead on the responding admin's discretion. Thanks again! —/Mendaliv//_Δ's/ 20:08, 23 June 2013 (UTC)

Sounds good to me, thank you for looking out. --Bongwarrior (talk) 20:10, 23 June 2013 (UTC)

Please block 100loves

Hi, please block User:100loves, with an expiry set of indefinite. Because the user changed unsourced genre. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 183.171.179.76 (talk) 06:39, 24 June 2013 (UTC)

It takes a lot more than that to earn a block. The user appears to be editing normally. --Bongwarrior (talk) 06:43, 24 June 2013 (UTC)

Navboxes on author pages

Since you have over 100 edits at Stephen King, you might want to participate in the discussion at Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Novels#Derivative_works_and_cultural_references_templates regarding including navigation boxes for adaptations of and related subjects to an authors works on the author's bio page.--TonyTheTiger (T/C/BIO/WP:CHICAGO/WP:FOUR) 16:09, 25 June 2013 (UTC)

TemplateData

Hey Bongwarrior

I'm sending you this because you've made quite a few edits to the template namespace in the past couple of months. If I've got this wrong, or if I haven't but you're not interested in my request, don't worry; this is the only notice I'm sending out on the subject :).

So, as you know (or should know - we sent out a centralnotice and several watchlist notices) we're planning to deploy the VisualEditor on Monday, 1 July, as the default editor. For those of us who prefer markup editing, fear not; we'll still be able to use the markup editor, which isn't going anywhere.

What's important here, though, is that the VisualEditor features an interactive template inspector; you click an icon on a template and it shows you the parameters, the contents of those fields, and human-readable parameter names, along with descriptions of what each parameter does. Personally, I find this pretty awesome, and from Monday it's going to be heavily used, since, as said, the VisualEditor will become the default.

The thing that generates the human-readable names and descriptions is a small JSON data structure, loaded through an extension called TemplateData. I'm reaching out to you in the hopes that you'd be willing and able to put some time into adding TemplateData to high-profile templates. It's pretty easy to understand (heck, if I can write it, anyone can) and you can find a guide here, along with a list of prominent templates, although I suspect we can all hazard a guess as to high-profile templates that would benefit from this. Hopefully you're willing to give it a try; the more TemplateData sections get added, the better the interface can be. If you run into any problems, drop a note on the Feedback page.

Thanks, Okeyes (WMF) (talk) 21:47, 28 June 2013 (UTC)

Procedural Decline at RFPP

Hi Bongwarrior,

I noticed that you procedurally declined an entire batch of my requests for unprotection at RFPP a few days ago. Out of the 24 requests that I made four were originally protected by a colleague who is still active and still is a sysop, these were protections originally made in 2010 you know. I act with Due diligence when I make the request at RFPP, those 24 requests are out of about 60 pages that I examined that night. The reason I don't (usually) talk to the protecting administrator is two-fold: Most administrators don't, I've found, remember why they protected a page three years ago; and, I've found that generally, the administrators patrolling RFPP have a better, more consistent understanding of the protection policy. I am familiar with your work for years to keep the encyclopedia safe and clean, and I thank you for it, but the procedural decline is not, I think, in the best interests of the project. I will contact the four administrators that are active, and I ask that you review the other 20 on their own merits. Regards, Crazynas 18:23, 29 June 2013 (UTC)

I relisted the requests for pages protected by inactive, retired or vanished administrators, and contacted the active ones. Regards, Crazynas 18:56, 29 June 2013 (UTC)

I'll be working my way down the list over the course of the evening; so far, they look like pretty reasonable requests. I didn't realize so many of those admins were either inactive or no longer admins - the handful that I checked were active, so I assumed that most of them were. I'm sorry for making you do double work; that's my mistake, and I thank you for taking the time to list them again. --Bongwarrior (talk) 22:02, 29 June 2013 (UTC)

Kudos (rapper)

This page is for a new hip hop artist in miami Alex Robinson Known as kudos this person has a twitter facebook and fan base. All of the links for proof are on the page. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Arobi015 (talk • contribs) 17:42, 2 July 2013‎ (UTC)

No offense, but he looks like yet another wannabe who hasn't done anything yet. Try again if he gets signed to a label and receives some sort of coverage. You may want to have a look here to get an idea of what we're looking for; he doesn't have to be Jay-Z to have an article, but we'll need a bit more than Twitter and Facebook. Take care. --Bongwarrior (talk) 18:01, 2 July 2013 (UTC)

Thank you for an explanation and everybody is a wannabe until they make it. But I will try again once he gets signed to a record label. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Arobi015 (talk • contribs) 18:48, 2 July 2013 (UTC)

Your block of User talk:I am not a fsdaufhsfgsdfgbujifuhji

Hello Bongwarrior, Could you disable talk page access for User talk:I am not a fsdaufhsfgsdfgbujifuhji? The user in question seems to be abusing it. Thanks, It's a Fox! (What did I break) 23:37, 3 July 2013 (UTC)

Done, thanks for letting me know. --Bongwarrior (talk) 00:09, 4 July 2013 (UTC)