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RFA thanks

Dear Oxymoron83, Thank you for supporting in my recent RfA. Words nor pictures can express my heartfelt appreciation at the confidence the community has shown me. I am both heartened and humbled by this confidence. I will carry the lessons learned from the constructive criticism I have received with me as I edit Wikipedia, and heed those lessons. Special thanks to Pedro and Henrik as nominators. Special thanks to Rudget who wanted to. A very special thanks to Moonriddengirl for her eloquence. Cheers, Dlohcierekim 20:12, 30 November 2007 (UTC)

Hello

Hello,

I created a page or edit or article, not sure how it is worded. for a somewhat celebrity in her own right, for a service called NowLive and u deleted. I see wiki entries for all kind of radio hosts in here, so I was wondering why it was deleted ?

thanks

TMJ — Preceding unsigned comment added by Y2kbird (talk • contribs) 01:35, 1 December 2007

Hello Y2kbird, your article was not an article, but a personal essay. Also you didn't mention why the article's subject is notable to have an article, which should be established by reliable sources. --Oxymoron⁸³ 15:29, 1 December 2007 (UTC)

Help on using Checkuser

Thanks for blocking 61.5.0.125 (talk · contribs). He's been a trouble maker for the past hour. However, East718 (talk · contribs) suggested a checkuser for him because it seems to be a rangehopper, because I've also noticed similar vandal edits on Mermaid Melody Pichi Pichi Pitch and other articles from the following: 61.5.68.126 (talk · contribs), 61.5.68.60 (talk · contribs), 61.5.0.16 (talk · contribs), 61.5.68.43 (talk · contribs), 61.94.40.105 (talk · contribs). How can properly report to checkuser in this case because from I have gathered, one false move and I may be blocked (I said "may be" because I am not sure). - 上村七美 (Nanami-chan) | talkback | contribs 04:32, 1 December 2007 (UTC)

Although I don't know why you think that I've blocked that IP, your question is sufficiently answered at ANI. --Oxymoron⁸³ 15:35, 1 December 2007 (UTC)

Template:People of the Three Kingdoms

Hi, thank you for your protecting Template:People of the Three Kingdoms. Could you do me a favor? Could you please link Li Yan to Li Yan (Three Kingdoms) in this template? I also left the request at Template talk:People of the Three Kingdoms. Sorry for the inconvenience. Thank you. --Neo-Jay 07:15, 1 December 2007 (UTC)

 Done --Oxymoron⁸³ 15:47, 1 December 2007 (UTC)

Thank you.--Neo-Jay 04:28, 2 December 2007 (UTC)

Smile

Alexfusco5 has smiled at you! Smiles promote WikiLove and hopefully this one has made your day better. Spread the WikiLove by smiling at someone else, whether it be someone you have had disagreements with in the past or a good friend. Happy editing!
Smile at others by adding {{subst:Smile}} to their talk page with a friendly message.

Alexfusco5 15:48, 1 December 2007 (UTC)

Thanks for the smile! --Oxymoron⁸³ 15:52, 1 December 2007 (UTC)

Protection

Thanks. — Rudget _{contributions} 16:32, 1 December 2007 (UTC)

No problem :) --Oxymoron⁸³ 16:37, 1 December 2007 (UTC)

TRHSE

why are you deleting my edits on the toms river high school east page?!?!?! we have had many changes to it this year such as anthony visco buying out the school —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.187.141.96 (talk • contribs) 18:18, 1 Dec 2007

Your edits are made only to muck about your classmate/teacher or whoever. The sandbox is elsewhere. --Oxymoron⁸³ 18:23, 1 December 2007 (UTC)

Re: Johnsburg High School

Thanks for your anti-vandalism help on this article. There was so much vandalism, that the edit you reverted to in fact still had some ..... Thanks for your help on this. I found the last vandalism free (I hope!) version, and reverted back to that. I just wanted to both thank you, and let you know what I did, lest you think I was another vandal. :-) LonelyBeacon 03:01, 2 December 2007 (UTC)

Thanks, I wasn't sure about the correct version :) --Oxymoron⁸³ 03:55, 2 December 2007 (UTC)

Barnstar

		The RickK Anti-Vandalism Barnstar
		I often see your name pop up on Recent changes, reverting vandalism. It's great to see someone working hard! Good job! Midorihana(talk)(contribs) 21:45, 2 December 2007 (UTC)

Thank you very much! --Oxymoron⁸³ 21:46, 2 December 2007 (UTC)

Aces and Eights

Hope you don't mind. I recreated as a redirect to Dead man's hand. Cheers, Dlohcierekim 23:39, 2 December 2007 (UTC)

Of course I don't mind as your redirect has nothing to do with the original content of the page ;) --Oxymoron⁸³ 23:41, 2 December 2007 (UTC)

Question.

Is it better that I recreate the article when the album is within a weeks' release?-Alkalinetrio78 00:04, 3 December 2007 (UTC)

Yes, it is better to create the article if there are reliable sources available that establish notability. The content has to exceed a trivial sentence to justify a separate album article at all; otherwise it's better to include that in the main band article (if the band is notable in March '08). Regards --Oxymoron⁸³ 05:31, 3 December 2007 (UTC)

Request

Could you merge the histories of User talk:Moe Epsilon and User talk:Save Us 229? Moe Epsilon is my old account. Thank you. — Save_Us_229 06:53, 3 December 2007 (UTC)

Regarding this I have no doubt that these are your accounts, but I've never done a history merge and as Jerzy said, it's better to let it do by an admin with experience more specific to your need. Sorry --Oxymoron⁸³ 07:22, 3 December 2007 (UTC)

It's fine I guess, I guess I'll just live with a redirect. — Save_Us_229 07:31, 3 December 2007 (UTC)

I think your franchise doesn't depend on the history of your talk page, as that seems to be the main/only reason for the requested merge. Either they allow the vote based on this or not. Regards --Oxymoron⁸³ 07:39, 3 December 2007 (UTC)

It's not for the election, I just wanted done for the sake of it being accurate and so I could extract history easier. I'll just do it the hard way. — Save_Us_229 07:45, 3 December 2007 (UTC)

User talk:220.239.85.96

Looking for input on this user's current unblock request. They've indicated a willingness to discuss changes instead of reverting, if unblocked. – Luna Santin (talk) 08:13, 3 December 2007 (UTC)

Thanks for the note, I've unblocked to give it a try. --Oxymoron⁸³ 08:21, 3 December 2007 (UTC)

Thanks

Thank you for the protection and for the advice. P|^|C 10:55, 3 December 2007 (UTC)

No problem. --Oxymoron⁸³ 10:57, 3 December 2007 (UTC)

I try

To help wikipedia by expanding it and this is how you repay me? Wikipedia sucks I hate you! JoshuaMD

Creating 3 pages where the whole content of each is This article is a stub you can help wikipedia by expanding it is complete nonsense and doesn't help Wikipedia, but I'm sure you'd already known that. --Oxymoron⁸³ 13:12, 3 December 2007 (UTC)

Please refrain from removing my edits.

Thank you for your co-operation.

24.68.253.80 13:22, 3 December 2007 (UTC)

Any reasons? --Oxymoron⁸³ 13:24, 3 December 2007 (UTC)

My edits are very useful. - 24.68.253.80 14:07, 3 December 2007 (UTC)

PhotoBooth

Sorry if I removed content. It wasnt my intention. Now I know better. May I make my edit again? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 212.1.47.60 (talk • contribs) 15:01, 3 Dec 2007

No problem. Yes, you may make the edit again without removing the interwikis ;) Additionally you may read our guidelines for external links, I think it's possible to add your link. --Oxymoron⁸³ 15:07, 3 December 2007 (UTC)

Vandalism to Greater Manchester

Hi

I just reverted an edit to Greater Manchester, double checked the History page to see that it was me who reverted the page, and then went over to the vandals talk page to add the warning. I saw that you had added one for that page, so I thought that they must have already done one on that page. I upped the warning level, and added mine. Just to be on the safe side, I checked their contributions, to see if htere was anything else they did that needed undoing. It was then I saw that they had only done one act of vandalism to that article, so I had to remove my warning.

Could I please ask you to double check the history page to see if it was indeed you that reverted the edits (I always do - surprising the number of times to see that you got there first!). Failing that, if you see someone else has reverted edits, can you give them a chance to add the vandalism warning?

Keep up the good work with the vandals, though! StephenBuxton 15:52, 4 December 2007 (UTC)

Thank you too for your anti-vandalism efforts! It happens every now and then that the warning is issued by another editor than the one who reverted. I personally give a warning only if the last warning was given more than a minute ago to avoid these double-warnings for the same edit (yes, sometimes there are also other editors faster than me with the warning although I made the revert ;) ) I think at these extremely high rates of vandalism here the time should be better used to revert the vandalism instead of the double checks. But I will try to do that. Btw, don't you want to try e. g. Twinkle for the anti-vandalism work, which makes that a little bit easier? --Oxymoron⁸³ 16:11, 4 December 2007 (UTC)

I did once apply for TW, but was turned down - apparently you needed to make more than 100 edits in a month to qualify - I think I more than qualify now! Only thing now is that my computer at home has died a death, so I am limited to using my computer at work (and they are very picky about allowing other programs run on it) or using a computer station at my local library. Once I get a computer at home connected to the net, I think I'll reapply. Until then, I'll just have to carry on doing it manually. (Well, I know I don't have to do anything, I just feel I should). BTW, how does one qualify for getting the powers to block vandals? StephenBuxton 18:46, 4 December 2007 (UTC)

There are no restrictions on using Twinkle, you only have to add some lines to your monobook.js (and not to use the IE). There is no extra program you have to run. Blocking vandals can be done by admins. --Oxymoron⁸³ 19:09, 4 December 2007 (UTC)

Unfortunately, I only have use of IE when at work or at the library. Are theere any other anti-vandalism tools that are available? StephenBuxton 19:27, 4 December 2007 (UTC)

You can try User:Voice of All/RC/monobook.js, but I don't know how this works. --Oxymoron⁸³ 19:36, 4 December 2007 (UTC)

Thanks 2

Thanks for responding so quickly to Nhygv - I'm not that cruel a troll :D Porcupine (prickle me! · contribs · status) 18:22, 4 December 2007 (UTC)

No problem, this is a known vandal (see history of DuPage County, Illinois for more socks) --Oxymoron⁸³ 18:25, 4 December 2007 (UTC)

163.248.111. . . .

I see you have blocked 163.248.111.229 and 163.248.111.231. I suggest you also block 163.248.111.228 and 163.248.111.230‎ since these seem to be vandalism by the same person in the same time frame. --Pleasantville 19:17, 4 December 2007 (UTC)

 Done --Oxymoron⁸³ 19:30, 4 December 2007 (UTC)

Barnstar 2

		The You're So Good At This It's Scary Barnstar
		What more can I say? Keep up all the great work snuffing out vandals! --Midnightdreary 19:28, 4 December 2007 (UTC)

Thank you very much! --Oxymoron⁸³ 19:31, 4 December 2007 (UTC)

Danke

For deleting my userpage sub-section. I appreciate it :-) Scarian^Talk 22:57, 4 December 2007 (UTC)

You're welcome. --Oxymoron⁸³ 06:19, 5 December 2007 (UTC)

You are highly annoying

How was my subject in the topic Nail Biting considered vandalism? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 222.164.220.47 (talk • contribs) 06:10, 5 Dec 2007

Talk pages are used to discuss the article's content, they are not a general forum. Please sign your talk page contributions with ~~~~. --Oxymoron⁸³ 06:18, 5 December 2007 (UTC)

TemplateUSA PATRIOT Act small

TemplateUSA PATRIOT Act small
I attempted to move this to the correct title, and outrageously this has been deleted without comment to me, minutes after it was saved.
Where is the courtesy of talking to the inprocess author?
Kindly revive this template so that I can continue working on it for this set of ten=plus artcles it relates to.
-- Yellowdesk (talk) 07:04, 5 December 2007 (UTC)

There is a typo in the title, the template has been moved to Template:USA PATRIOT Act small, I deleted only the redirect, as this title makes no sense. --Oxymoron⁸³ 07:06, 5 December 2007 (UTC)

Why could you not have consulted with me within the eight minutes of the saving of the template? -- Yellowdesk (talk) 07:09, 5 December 2007 (UTC)

Again, I deleted only the redirect from namespace 0 that was automatically created during the page move by another user during my CSD patrol. This is uncontroversial and it was unnecessary to check the history of the template. The page was orphaned. I deleted none of your edits. --Oxymoron⁸³ 07:18, 5 December 2007 (UTC)

How was I toknow where to find the template if noone was communicating with me, who intended to move it to the correct name to upon discovering the typo? -- Yellowdesk (talk) 07:23, 5 December 2007 (UTC)

If the editor who moved the page didn't contact you, there is the deletion reason. As you said you intended to move it by yourself, you must have known where the template is. If not or something is unclear, you can ask the deleting admin. You've chosen the last option, and you've been given all the information already in my first respond. I see nothing which could be discussed further. --Oxymoron⁸³ 07:43, 5 December 2007 (UTC)

User:86.158.236.177

Regarding the above Pakistani-Kashmir sort of chap, I've given him a light block of 3 hours to calm down. I hope there's no CoI - I stepped in to stop what I thought was vandalism. The two articles on PaKashmir and IaKashmir need bringing into line! Chase me ladies, I'm the Cavalry (talk) 10:57, 5 December 2007 (UTC)

I've no concerns regarding the block, especially as he made the same edits using another IP yesterday. --Oxymoron⁸³ 11:01, 5 December 2007 (UTC)

Warning to VANDAL

You better watch it or I'll REPORT you to Arbcom and Wales faster than you can say Heil! you little Fascist Kraut!!! —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.111.143.76 (talk • contribs) 12:27, 5 Dec 2007

Your LAST WARNING!

[edit] Warning to VANDAL You better watch it or I'll REPORT you to Arbcom and Wales faster than you can say Heil! you little Fascist Kraut!!! —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.111.143.76 (talk • contribs) 12:28, 5 Dec 2007

Please do so, also please read WP:NPA and sign your talk page contributions using ~~~~. --Oxymoron⁸³ 12:32, 5 December 2007 (UTC)

User blocking

Sorry to ask an apparently silly question, noticed you deleted my vandal report and you say the user:Mohamad the bear was blocked ages ago. I had assumed that if the account was still visible the user still had access. How do I know if a user has already been blocked? Apologies for asking this directly but I have searched around the wikipedia help pages and cannot find this information... Thank you in advance Inbetweener (talk) 13:52, 5 December 2007 (UTC)

No problem, this is no silly question ;) You can look in the user's block log to see the blocks. --Oxymoron⁸³ 13:54, 5 December 2007 (UTC)

Help..again

Remember that IP I told you about, well they are at it again. I would go to AIV but as it happened while I was offline I figured I would go to you again. The user 24.137.123.106 attacked me Rgoodermote here. I would ask you to watch the IP but they did come off a block recently. Odd part is...I never claimed power..and I do not know the IP. Rgoodermote  14:06, 5 December 2007 (UTC)

You may want to just look at the users contributions, because there is going to be a lot of diffs soon Rgoodermote  14:21, 5 December 2007 (UTC)

As I said in my last statement, a warning has to be given, what I've done now. --Oxymoron⁸³ 14:24, 5 December 2007 (UTC)

Sorry I am in a public setting, I would give the user a warning but TW does not work on Internet Explorer. I thought the user had just come out of a block. But I just remembered it was a 31 hour block. Rgoodermote  14:27, 5 December 2007 (UTC)

R. Kelly

Very sorry for that fix, there was vandalism in the version after that as well, and I apparently didn't check for any other vandalism before I undid. Thanks for pointing that out. RedZion^X 14:11, 5 December 2007 (UTC)

No problem, I just wanted to know if I've overlooked something. Happy editing! --Oxymoron⁸³ 14:20, 5 December 2007 (UTC)

Missing headline

dear oxymoron,

I removed the "identity" section from egypt because it is one-sided and distorts facts to prove its author's view that egypt is not an arab country. It reads more like a piece of advocacy rather than the unbiased factual content you would expect to find in an encyclopedia. Only the views of the few who believe that Egypt should sever its links with the arab world are presented, not the many who believe that it should keep them. This makes for a very inaccurate picture of how Egyptians view their identity. It should be noted that all Egyptians speak arabic as their mother tongue, that egypt is inseperably culturally linked to the arab world and that egypt is the headquarters of the arab league. I really do not believe that this section has any place in a factual piece and hope that you will agree to its removal. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 195.137.58.184 (talk • contribs) 14:11, 5 Dec 2007

You aren't allowed to remove a huge section of well-referenced content from an article without using the edit summary over and over again. You should discuss the changes at the article's talk page first. --Oxymoron⁸³ 14:20, 5 December 2007 (UTC)

Rick Cole

Hi there

Considering the options, I thought it better to warn and block the user, but it was already done by the time I got there. I'm not sure if it's best to salt the page, because in all likelihood this person or a person with a similar name may become notable enough for an article. What do you think? --Rifleman 82 (talk) 16:11, 5 December 2007 (UTC)

No problem, if you think the page should be unprotected you can do this. I don't know much about the frequency of English names. Thanks for notifying me. --Oxymoron⁸³ 16:26, 5 December 2007 (UTC)

Hey there. I've taken the article off the list. If there's further recreation of deleted/copyvio material, we can salt it again. Thanks! --Rifleman 82 (talk) 17:17, 5 December 2007 (UTC)

Lewis Libby

Regarding my edit on the Lewis Libby page you wrote:

Please stop. If you continue to blank out or delete portions of page content, templates or other materials from Wikipedia, as you did to Lewis Libby, you will be blocked from editing. --Oxymoron83 17:07, 5 December 2007 (UTC)

Well, I don't know how to fill out the report that I'm told to fill out and I don't believe that lacking wikipedia savvy is in any way indicative of lacking EDITING savvy.

My edit to the Lewis Libby article was not vandalism. There are a dedicated group of conspiracy theorist anti-semites who are of the opinion that the United States government is under secret "Zionist" control. To that end they spend millions of human hours worth of editing wikipedia articles to reflect their mental illness. This article was a prime example of their influence. The deleted piece was only a PART of their long-winded bullshit designed to convince the reader than anyone and everyone who was ever indicted or otherwise besmirched in the public eye is one of those dirty little Jews.

Again, I don't have sufficient wiki knowledge to defend myself (in the correct location and with the correct codes and passwwords) from this "bot"-charge of vandalism but there simply was no vandalism. There's no reason why an article on Libby should be full of anti-semitic canards. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 98.206.180.16 (talk • contribs) 17:21, 5 Dec 2007

You can't remove a large section of referenced content from an article without using the edit summary and discussing the changes at the article's talk page first. --Oxymoron⁸³ 17:29, 5 December 2007 (UTC)

Barnstar 3

		The RickK Anti-Vandalism Barnstar
		I award you this barnstar for your amazing work fighting vandalism! Tiddly-Tom 19:33, 5 December 2007 (UTC)

Do you use any tools or what? And is the admin rollback faster that something like twinkle? Tiddly-Tom 19:33, 5 December 2007 (UTC)

Thank you very much! Yes, the admin revert is waaaay faster, because you don't need to upload the page content. Maybe you wanna add some lines to your monobook (replace the twinklefluff.js and add the twinklewarnauto, see here), this is a modification of DerHexer's monobook for non-admins I used before and helps you with the warnings. --Oxymoron⁸³ 19:40, 5 December 2007 (UTC)

Well, to use the admin rollback means that it's instantly reverted. (And no new version is added to the database.) —DerHexer (Talk) 19:49, 5 December 2007 (UTC)

Thank you very much for both of your replies, but what does the twinklewarnauto do and why do I need to replace the twinklefluff? (At the moment I have all the twinkle scripts in one, do I need to add all the individual ones except from the fluff one?) Thanks again, Tiddly-Tom 07:18, 6 December 2007 (UTC)

The advantages are that you can choose the revert reason at the time of the revert and put semi-automatic warnings what saves you some clicks and time; you are able to concentrate more on the reverts itself. Furthermore if you use VF and have enabled the "add users reverted by those on whitelist to blacklist" option, edits by users you have reverted are automatically highlighted. There's also a semiautomatic report functionality which I enable only for users who have experience with the script and know what it does/they do, to ensure good reports. You need to to add the individual scripts instead of the single one, but the single one does nothing else than importing the individual scripts, there's no difference. --Oxymoron⁸³ 07:42, 6 December 2007 (UTC)

I have copped all the non-admin rollback stuff from one of your user sub pages. I wondered if I set it not to open the talk page on revert if it would still warn them? Thanks again for your help, Tiddly-Tom 18:51, 6 December 2007 (UTC)

It will only warn, if you let it open a tab/window. I had a second window minimized in the taskbar where the warnings were given. --Oxymoron⁸³ 19:02, 6 December 2007 (UTC)

Thanks yet again. A problem has just arose - Firefox is blocking pop ups. One minute it was working and after making no changes to my settings, it wont work now. I have told it to allow popups from wikipedia - It will still not work! Any ideas? Tiddly-Tom 19:27, 6 December 2007 (UTC)

Hmm. Did you check the settings/preferences menu in Firefox? Normally there should be no problem to open the page. You can also try starting Firefox again and refreshing the cache (Ctrl+Shift+R). --Oxymoron⁸³ 19:35, 6 December 2007 (UTC)

Did as instructed and it worked, thank you very much. Tiddly-Tom 19:41, 6 December 2007 (UTC)

Is there any simple way to stop it asking me if I want to revert multiple edits - As I always do? Thanks again, Tiddly-Tom 19:16, 7 December 2007 (UTC)

This is the standard behavior of Twinkle when not using the Vandalim-revert. I tended to use the Vandal-revert when the edit was probably not made in good faith. I found the confirmation request for the multi-revision-revert useful, as it's an reminder to look at the page history in such cases afterwards to see if the version I reverted to is a good one (if you only revert one revision, you see who made the previous one and can rate if you want to check the history - normally the check isn't needed in such cases). Do you use the VF? If so, only the first edit by a specific IP needs the confirmation, as you see any further edit instantly. --Oxymoron⁸³ 19:29, 7 December 2007 (UTC)

Ok, Thanks for your help. I do not use VF, just lupins tool for finding vandalism. I don't trust wikipedia tools which you download. In the last few months, two computers I have installed AWB and VP onto have died :S Tiddly-Tom 19:48, 7 December 2007 (UTC)

I'm sorry for your computers. Fortunately all works fine at mine (although it's a bit slow ;) ) --Oxymoron⁸³ 19:50, 7 December 2007 (UTC)

One Question

I am the person that was posting in the festivus page I would like to know why what I wrote is considered vandalism. Its not like I posted anything offensive and it actually has to do with the word festivus. There are many words that have multiple meanings to me and about 200 other people in my home town the word festivus has a meaning different to that of its actual seinfeld meaning and i would like to know why I am not able to have my meaning posted onto a free encyclopedia that is for people to use and edit at free will. Once agian what I put was not offensive and it has meaning to people so it makes no sense to me why it would be considered vandalism and why my account would be blocked from editing. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Its UNBELIEVABLE (talk • contribs)

Question answered on user's talk page. shoeofdeath (talk) 21:48, 5 December 2007 (UTC)

Thank you. --Oxymoron⁸³ 07:44, 6 December 2007 (UTC)

		The Order of the Purple Barnstar
		I, the LonelyBeacon, do award Oxymoron83 the purple barnstar as a token for the utter garbage that vandals leave here after being caught, the blanking of your personal pages, and as a token of thanks for your hard work in keeping Wikipedia clean from vandalism. While no good deed goes unpunished, from time to time, good deeds also get rewarded. Stay the course and Peace! LonelyBeacon (talk) 23:33, 5 December 2007 (UTC)

Thank you very much! --Oxymoron⁸³ 07:44, 6 December 2007 (UTC)

Vandalism warning

I never made any edits to the article on Neenah High School. I don't even know how to do anything but search for articles on Wikipedia, or if I'm even leaving this comment the right way. I suspect it may have been my sister, so my question is: If I make my own account, and she continues to do this on the IP address, but not my account, will I get banned? Thanks! —Preceding unsigned comment added by 72.160.197.150 (talk • contribs) 06:56, 6 Dec 2007

If you create an account, you only will get messages that are for you. Also normally you are able to continue editing although the underlying IP address might be blocked. Regards --Oxymoron⁸³ 07:58, 6 December 2007 (UTC)

speedy declined again - no reason given

The reason given is: This page needs to be deleted to merge histories, reverse a redirect, or perform other non-controversial housekeeping tasks. (CSD G6). Wikipedian 10:47, 6 December 2007 (UTC)

What exactly do you want to do? Eventually {{db-histmerge|title of the page to be merged into here}} is what you search for? I can't see the purpose of your deletion request, please specify. Thanks --Oxymoron⁸³ 10:52, 6 December 2007 (UTC)

Missing headline 2

The ability to blank pages is according to Wiki rules Pensil (talk) 13:15, 6 December 2007 (UTC)

I know that you are able to blank pages - but blanking pages makes no sense, a fortiori without an edit summary. --Oxymoron⁸³ 13:18, 6 December 2007 (UTC)

Thanks 3

Hi and thanks for reverting the vandal's edit to my page. Don't know who he was. Thanks though. JTBX (talk) 15:27, 6 December 2007 (UTC)

You're welcome. --Oxymoron⁸³ 15:30, 6 December 2007 (UTC)

thanks4

thanks for reverting unsourced addition to my user page. Jimfbleak (talk) 17:34, 6 December 2007 (UTC)

No problem, I thought reverting is better than adding a {{fact}} tag ;) --Oxymoron⁸³ 17:36, 6 December 2007 (UTC)

thanks whatever the last one was plus one

Thanks for removing the vandalism on my userpage. Seems people still hate me after 6 months. Cool :) mattbuck (talk) 18:18, 6 December 2007 (UTC)

Congratulations! --Oxymoron⁸³ 18:21, 6 December 2007 (UTC)

Final warning

If you continue to hate freedom you will be banned from Wikipedia. I assure you, Jim's got my back. bitch. 129.174.52.137 (talk) 18:32, 6 December 2007 (UTC)

Hookeman

Might want to block Hookemanisbackagaintokillyouall (talk · contribs), too.--12 Noon 18:41, 6 December 2007 (UTC)

I got it. :) GlassCobra 18:44, 6 December 2007 (UTC)

(ec) I was too slow (even to answer here) ... Thanks nevertheless, good catch! --Oxymoron⁸³ 18:44, 6 December 2007 (UTC)

194.83.172.71

Just to put you in the picture, the above IP that you blocked yesterday belongs to the school that my son attends, and is therefore likely to continue to be a source of vandalism since numerous mischievous juveniles are responsible for the edits. I'll send the school a message in the hope that someone responsible will take action, but I have my doubts. --Red Sunset 19:55, 6 December 2007 (UTC)

Thanks for your efforts! --Oxymoron⁸³ 20:05, 6 December 2007 (UTC)

hey I Just figured out

I just fighured out that 159.199.192.237 had vandalized on my page so thaks so much for that and I'll be giving you a barnstar very soon Rox^mysoxo::Talk To Me 21:20, 6 December 2007 (UTC)

You're welcome! --Oxymoron⁸³ 22:03, 6 December 2007 (UTC)

More Barnstars

		The Barnstar of Peace
		For not getting mad when an ip threatened to report him to Jimbo Wales and the Arbcomm Alexfusco5 22:00, 6 December 2007 (UTC)

Thanks again! --Oxymoron⁸³ 22:04, 6 December 2007 (UTC)

I picked you because you are editing at this moment and I'm in a rush for an answer

Graham, what was the point of me semiprotecting Tau Gamma Phi here when obviously here it didn't work!!? What's going on? —ScouterSig 23:02, 6 December 2007 (UTC)

You can't protect pages, only admins can. The template is added to the article to indicate that a page is protected, it has no effect on the protection itself. --Oxymoron⁸³ 23:32, 6 December 2007 (UTC)

Oh...um... could you semi-protect it, to keep a 'rampaging IP' (96.224.60.118) from continuing to add information contrary to Wikipedia policy? —ScouterSig 23:35, 6 December 2007 (UTC)

It doesn't look like the IP is vandalizing, it seems that he/she is a newbie and not aware of the policies and manual of style. It also looks like the IP accepts advices, you should try to solve problems at the talk page first, I think this will work. --Oxymoron⁸³ 23:45, 6 December 2007 (UTC)

Full protection of archives

Hi Oxymoron83. I notice that you recently fully protected all of User:Alexfusco5's talk archives on the grounds that editing is not needed. This goes against a long tradition of not fully protecting talk archives. The history of RFPP is littered with rejections of this kind of request and it has been raised a number of times on the admin boards. There are some times when editing is desirable. Obvious examples are removing material due to libel or privacy reasons. Other examples are changing signature after a username change, removing images, removing backlinks for various reasons, and so on. This is a wiki after all. I would really like you to reconsider setting this precedent. Such protection is not afforded by the protection policy. Thanks. -- zzuuzz ^(talk) 00:35, 7 December 2007 (UTC)

Thanks for notifying me, I hadn't known that. At the German Wikipedia talk page archives are very often semi protected, this is a normal procedure there. I didn't imagine that this could be contrary here, as users can normally demand semi protection for their userpage and any other of their usersubpages (of course this is different for the current talk page). I'm unprotecting the pages. Can you provide me some links to such discussions later as I wasn't able to find anything about that in the protection policy (no need to do it now, in some days is just fine). --Oxymoron⁸³ 00:53, 7 December 2007 (UTC)

Semi-protection is usually fine btw. You ask for me to show where the protection policy says not to do something, when it says to do some things but it doesn't say everything not to do. Tricky. I've had a quick look for past discussion but in the short time only found Wikipedia_talk:Protection_policy/Archive_3#Protection_of_archives. I will take a look for more over the next few days. Thanks again. -- zzuuzz ^(talk) 01:08, 7 December 2007 (UTC)

Sorry, I was unaware of this policy when I requested it, can you semi-protect it if thats okay Alexfusco5 12:22, 7 December 2007 (UTC)

Done. --Oxymoron⁸³ 15:20, 7 December 2007 (UTC)

The best source for the name Romanov-Holstein-Gottorp

Dear Oxymoron83, I noticed that you intervened in the editing of "House of Romanov".

The greatest authority for matters of nobility has allways been the "Almanach de Gotha". It's 1914 edition calls the Russian Imperial dynasty "Maison Romanov-Holstein-Gottorp".

There is no more authoritative source than the venerable Gotha, is there?

The 2001 Gotha, a new issue that is not related to the old publishers firm of Justus Pertis, calls the dynasty "Romanov/Romanoff". This almanach is not as good a source (yet) as the old almanach.

There is no reason for a quarrel, a redirect and a few explanations (these Germans from Gottorp, a branch of the Oldenburg family, wanted to be Russian in the eyes of their people) should satisfy everyone. The House of Windsor a.k.a Saxen-Coburg-Gotha is a similar case...

Are you content with this source? Faithfully yours,

Robert Prummel (talk) 15:04, 7 December 2007 (UTC)

I protected the page as an uninvolved admin due to an edit war. The right place to discuss this is the article's talk page, where you've already gotten an answer to the same question. Regards --Oxymoron⁸³ 15:20, 7 December 2007 (UTC)

IP Vandalism

Yesterday you declined to semi-protect the Dorking page due to low levels of vandalism. I've had to revert two sets of vandalism since then and it's been going on for weeks. If I don't revert, no-one else does. Two questions: is it now suitable for any protection, and if not, at what point does it become eligible. I'm blowed if I'm going to sit on Wikipedia all day every day for the chance to revert some mindless rubbish. BeerMatt (talk) 17:08, 7 December 2007 (UTC)

At the moment there are only occasional edits by specific IPs, what can be handled by warnings and blocks (obviously you forgot to warn the IP). The last 100 edits reach back to June, what shows low traffic and too less edits for a protection at this time. Standard for an article is 'open'. If the nonsense accumulates for some more days, a short semi protection can be considered to discontinue these edits. --Oxymoron⁸³ 18:44, 7 December 2007 (UTC)

Semi-protecting's a very blunt tool, causing a lot of damage to the project. Warning, then blocking the vandals is much more precise. Less collateral damage too. I've blocked the IP vandal for 3 days. Let's see if s/he comes back. --Rifleman 82 (talk) 19:06, 7 December 2007 (UTC)

Thanks for the clarification, both. BeerMatt (talk) 18:36, 8 December 2007 (UTC)

always the same...

“Error: Latest revision is made by Oxymoron83, so it might already been reverted, stopping reverting.” *cry* ;) —aitias •discussion• 21:21, 7 December 2007 (UTC)

Sorry; but I finish now for tody, so that there are more for you ;) --Oxymoron⁸³ 21:25, 7 December 2007 (UTC)

Weil's in Deutsch eben doch schneller geht: Gibt ja auch noch User:KnowledgeOfSelf, User:ClueBot et all *g* – Gute Nacht und schönen Feierabend  ;) Grüße, —aitias •discussion• 21:35, 7 December 2007 (UTC)

Ehm, ja. Danke und für dich auch einen schönen Abend :) --Oxymoron⁸³ 21:42, 7 December 2007 (UTC)

Danke :) —aitias •discussion• 22:12, 7 December 2007 (UTC)

Thanks 5

Hey OM83, thanks for looking out for me. I looked at the diff on my userpage and smiled. (I've been on Wiki for about 4 months now and have yet to have my userpage vandalized. I consider it a rite of passage and actually did a fist-pump when I logged in - it means I'm doing something right around here). It's all good, thanks for reverting my me-space! Happy editing, Keeper | 76 21:43, 7 December 2007 (UTC)

Welcome on-board! --Oxymoron⁸³ 21:51, 7 December 2007 (UTC)

Yeah, I just did "history" on your userpage. You rock. Amazing diffs. Keep up the good work, glad you're here! I'll even give you a cookie for your vigilance.

Keeper has given you a cookie! Cookies promote WikiLove and hopefully this one has made your day better. Spread the WikiLove by giving someone else a cookie, whether it be someone you have had disagreements with in the past or a good friend. Happy munching!

Spread the goodness of cookies by adding {{subst:Cookie}} to their talk page with a friendly message.

. Feel free to delete it if you don't want to use up space - Cheers, Keeper | 76 21:55, 7 December 2007 (UTC)

Why should I delete a yummy cookie? If so then only temporarily under {{db-cookiemerge}} to add it to the cookie plate ;) --Oxymoron⁸³ 22:07, 7 December 2007 (UTC)

Article:Deletionists

Please check comments to the article, and make some effort to not jump to the conclusion that it was vandalism or testing.

Cheers. 71.34.254.111 (talk) 10:09, 8 December 2007 (UTC)

I saw your comment on the talk page, but the speedy deletion makes no sense, the page falls under none of the criteria. --Oxymoron⁸³ 09:57, 8 December 2007 (UTC)

It's empty. Or perhaps nonsense would have been a better criterion. Did you look even cursorily at the contents of the redirect page? 71.34.254.111 (talk) 10:09, 8 December 2007 (UTC)

Redirect pages are renowned for having less content. That's no reason to delete them. And please sign your talk page contributions using ~~~~. --Oxymoron⁸³ 10:05, 8 December 2007 (UTC)

Done, and elsewhere as well. 71.34.254.111 (talk) 10:11, 8 December 2007 (UTC)

u r a meanie

I am forced to leave wikipedia, as you said it is a waste of my time....... —Preceding unsigned comment added by Vovovarun (talk • contribs) 17:37, 8 Dec 2007

I must ask why you deleted a related article

I was asked to complete a project on an upcoming Jr athelete. I was reading the article, when it was abruptly deleted. I contacted the author, he said that he will repost it. After attempting this, it was deleted again. The article was titled Harvey Justice and after reading what I did read about him, I would like the article restored. I talked with the author by e-mail, and he wants to know what he can do. He stated to me, "It's obvious why Justice is of some signifcance. He is a junior athelete with plans of playing in college football. Highly admired, and there was a similar article of Heisman trophy winning Tim Tebow when he was in high school before he was "nationally recognized". In addition, the article name Harvey Justice is availible." —Preceding unsigned comment added by 12.158.191.236 (talk • contribs) 18:26, 8 Dec 2007

This said, what can you do about this?

Your article didn't mention why this person is notable to have an article here, which should be established by reliable sources. --Oxymoron⁸³ 18:37, 8 December 2007 (UTC)

Yes it did

I am the author of the article Harvey Justice. I will repost the article. And let me say,throughout the entire article it stated Justice's success in junior football and his multi-award winnign academic success. THis article made his academic prowess and athletical ability apparent, and he is most likely a subject for a scholorship. Great prospect.

No disrespect. I will repost the article in exactly 10 minutes. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Xsouthpole (talk • contribs) 18:53, 8 Dec 2007

Good luck. --Oxymoron⁸³ 18:59, 8 December 2007 (UTC)

this is ridiculous

Thanks oxy,

Now they patrol Harvey Justice? Ok. oxymoron83 do you have any say in this. is there anyway you can contact someone about this? I am a fan of this young athelete. I would appreciate it. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Xsouthpole (talk • contribs) 19:09, 8 Dec 2007

As I said above, you should read the notability guidlines for people. Recreating an deleted article 4 times doesn't increase the notability, only the chance that your account get blocked. Please also follow the links at your talk page, the quick repostings show that you haven't read one page of them. --Oxymoron⁸³ 19:21, 8 December 2007 (UTC)

I can't thank you enough

		The Working Man's Barnstar
		Four times today, you've protected my userpage. Thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you. You surely are a working man. KnowledgeOfSelf | talk 19:49, 8 December 2007 (UTC)

No problem at all ;) --Oxymoron⁸³ 19:52, 8 December 2007 (UTC)

BloodRayne 2

Just to let you know, the above article doesn't need semi protecting as I've already range blocked the IP, happy editing. Ryan Postlethwaite 21:31, 8 December 2007 (UTC)

Yes it looks like the vandalism is made by the same user, but it comes from a broader range, whereas all IPs are registered to btcentralplus.com. To be effective, additionally at least 81.153/16, 81.155/16, 81.157/16, 86.132/16 and 86.147/16 have to be blocked, what would be 393216 IPs. Regarding the history of these two pages, the page protection will imo cause less collateral damage and is necessary. --Oxymoron⁸³ 21:43, 8 December 2007 (UTC)

Wow, yeah I just blocked one range, but we can't go blocking all those ranges you quote, I didn't realise there were so many. Obviously semi-protection is more appropriate. Ryan Postlethwaite 21:47, 8 December 2007 (UTC)

Vandalism on your talkpage

Just so you know I reverted your user talk page because of vandalism by user:PD2KINGTUT and user:HemperorOfSmokeLandVillez.dum so far I've given a warning a final warning to HemperorOfSmokeLandVillez.dum, I'm still seeing if PD2KINGTUT is doing a once off vandalism before I decide what warning to give him.

Well on a further check it seems you have already warned PD2KINGTUT about vandalising Ramesses II so I'm not going to even bother with giving him another warning I've asked an admin to block him. Also HemperorOfSmokeLandVillez.dum has vandalised someone else's User_talk:Greglocock and he has already handed out an ultimatum but you may want to take it further. --Sin Harvest (talk) 01:14, 9 December 2007 (UTC)

Thanks, although those edits to my talk page were not vandalism, only nonsense. --Oxymoron⁸³ 09:08, 9 December 2007 (UTC)

Bourke Engine

Thanks for keeping an eye on this page. Could you semiprotect Bourke Engine please- we have a couple of editors who edit that page who use one-time IP addresses to make destructive edits. (assuming you are an admin, certainly looks like you should be). Greglocock (talk) 04:05, 9 December 2007 (UTC)

There are far too less unconstructive IP edits at the moment to justify a semi protection. HOSLV.dum received a final warning for his disruptive edits and page moves (likely the recent IP edits are also made by him), all other edits seem to be constructive. You say he uses one-time IP addresses - are there any edits I missed, as I can see only one IP address? Regards --Oxymoron⁸³ 09:08, 9 December 2007 (UTC)

Fair enough. I count three: 71.173.89.22 , 71.173.84.29, 68.212.29.228 , but that is a lot fewer than I'd thought. Cheers Greglocock (talk) 09:34, 9 December 2007 (UTC)

I don't think that the last one is related; but we'll wait some time, semi protection isn't justified anyway at this time. Regards --Oxymoron⁸³ 09:43, 9 December 2007 (UTC)

:)

Thanks. :) —αἰτίας •discussion• 12:13, 9 December 2007 (UTC)

Kein Problem. --Oxymoron⁸³ 12:15, 9 December 2007 (UTC)

Kannst Du mir sagen, ob ich hier zu Unrecht revertier(t)e? Ich bin mir langsam unsicher... :-/ Grüße, —αἰτίας •discussion• 14:36, 9 December 2007 (UTC)

Am besten du bringst das Problem auf die Benutzer- oder Artikeldiskussionsseite und schreibst dort, warum du unzufrieden mit den Änderungen bist oder änderst es gleich selbst. Ich kann den Komplettrevert ohne mich näher mit dem Thema zu befassen nicht ganz nachvollziehen. --Oxymoron⁸³ 14:46, 9 December 2007 (UTC)

Hm, ich hielt es (wohl fälschlicherweise) für Vandalismus, vorher hatte die IP ja schonmal im gleichen Artikel vandaliert. Hm, ich halt mich aus diesem Artikel besser raus. Liebe Grüße und danke für Deinen Rat, —αἰτίας •discussion• 14:54, 9 December 2007 (UTC)

Thethirdeye Article Removed

Hi, I just recently received a message from you stating you have remove thethirdeye article due to copyright issues.

However, the content i was using was from a website i own, therefor is it possible to do this without conficting with the copyright issue.

Thanks —Preceding unsigned comment added by DeanWronowski (talk • contribs) 12:58, 9 Dec 2007

Please read Donating copyrighted materials (the whole page) and follow the instructions there. Thanks --Oxymoron⁸³ 13:03, 9 December 2007 (UTC)

ey man

what du i have to do to make this promo page valid. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Seanghalayini2705 (talk • contribs) 13:25, 9 Dec 2007

Promo pages are ever invalid. Also please read the notability guidelines for people, and cite reliable sources to establish the notability. --Oxymoron⁸³ 13:33, 9 December 2007 (UTC)

Gerald Barnbaum

Ok, thanks. --Xyzzyplugh (talk) 14:16, 9 December 2007 (UTC)

3RR

Thank you for the warning. I had forgotten this ! Ceedjee (talk) 14:28, 9 December 2007 (UTC)

Thx for stopping the edit war. Hopefully we can find consensus. --JaapBoBo (talk) 14:44, 9 December 2007 (UTC)

Please stop

Please stop I am tired of getting this message "Warning: Latest revision 176785888 doesn't equals our revision 176785796 Error: Latest revision is made by Oxymoron83, so it might already been reverted, stopping reverting. Action: completed" So please slow down ;)Alexfusco5 15:48, 9 December 2007 (UTC)

Give me a final warning and report me to AIV ;) --Oxymoron⁸³ 15:53, 9 December 2007 (UTC)

Good opening for a barnstar right. Here it comes Alexfusco5 16:07, 9 December 2007 (UTC)

		The RickK Anti-Vandalism Barnstar
		For reverting vandalism too quickly to be beat by any other RC patroler Alexfusco5 16:08, 9 December 2007 (UTC)

Thanks again! --Oxymoron⁸³ 16:16, 9 December 2007 (UTC)

I only give barnstars when users deserve it. And you obviously deserve all the barnstars given by me and countless other users Alexfusco5 16:20, 9 December 2007 (UTC)

Wikiholic

Hi, just a quick question. I tried taking the auto version of the wikiholic test (on two different browsers) but when the link opened it said I was'nt allowed to connect to the server. Can you please try it, to see if you can do it? I'm sorry about this, but I couldn't find any criteria for this problem on WP:HELPDESK.

thanks a lot,

Cf38 (talk) 20:45, 9 December 2007 (UTC)

I get the same error. You might try this some hours later; if it won't work then, you can post a new threat at the help desk or the talk page. Regards --Oxymoron⁸³ 20:49, 9 December 2007 (UTC)

Thanks!

The blocks are very helpful. --Illnab1024 21:35, 9 December 2007 (UTC)

Your edits as well, thank you too :) --Oxymoron⁸³ 21:39, 9 December 2007 (UTC)

User:Homoman11

While I'm the editor who was reverting Homoman11's changes on Nick Abbot, I'm not sure he deserves an indef block for them as there is some evidence he's right (not from reliable sources though) and the article itself has been fully protected. If he was blocked for another reason feel free to ignore this note :) Thanks. --NeilN ^{talk ♦ contribs} 23:12, 9 December 2007 (UTC)

As I stated in the block reason, it was a conduct block with username component (all contributions aimed in the same direction), therefore indef. If he had another username, the block would have been shorter of course. Regards --Oxymoron⁸³ 23:19, 9 December 2007 (UTC)

Thanks for the expanded explanation. I appreciate it. --NeilN ^{talk ♦ contribs} 23:35, 9 December 2007 (UTC)

No problem :) --Oxymoron⁸³ 23:48, 9 December 2007 (UTC)

Template:Infobox Yorkshire county

Could you undelete this work please? It was in use and improved an article, I was given no notification of its deletion (I created it). I'm incredibly annoyed that I was not even given the courtesy of a note to say this was going to be deleted so I could atleast imploment it if it needed to be merged. - Yorkshirian (talk) 04:48, 10 December 2007 (UTC)

I've managed to restore it (all be it in an inferior form than before, because I couldn't remember how I did everything). I left a message on the persons page who blanked it from an article. - Yorkshirian (talk) 05:24, 10 December 2007 (UTC)

Do you want me to restore to older versions nevertheless? Regards --Oxymoron⁸³ 08:40, 10 December 2007 (UTC)

I'm sorry

I so sorry for that. DI KO KASI KELANGAN NUNG IBANG INFORMATION KAYA TINANGGAL KO.. I'm sorry again..... —Preceding unsigned comment added by Nosgothianvampire (talk • contribs) 09:34, 10 Dec 2007

iStats

Hello,

I see that you have deleted my article about iStats. I don't see how this article is any different than any other article about a web-site or a web application. For instance, look at Yelp. BTW I don't have any affiliation with iStats (but i'm an iStats user). Convex hull (talk) 10:57, 10 December 2007 (UTC)

The article has to be written in a neutral point of view. Also please read the notability guidelines for websites, and cite reliable sources to establish the notability. And please sign your talk page contributions using ~~~~. --Oxymoron⁸³ 10:48, 10 December 2007 (UTC)

Missing headline 3

You have incorrectly identified the content of my anti-vandalsism edit. If you look at the last edit under my name you'll find that I simply removed the idiotic and completely irrelevant line "I like cheese" from the end of the paragraph on Diodorus.

The reversion you have carried out has nothing to do with my edit.

BongoPedro —Preceding unsigned comment added by BongoPedro (talk • contribs) 11:53, 10 Dec 2007

Sorry, I've really no clue what you're talking about. Neither have I interfered with one of your edits nor have I ever edited Diodorus or Diodorus Siculus. You should be more specific when complaining, diff links would be helpful. Please sign your talk page contributions using ~~~~. Thanks --Oxymoron⁸³ 12:03, 10 December 2007 (UTC)

Company Policy

My company apologises for any inconvinience caused at 7:15PM GMT. My Company also apologises to Wikipedia itself for pretending to be one of them. I Can not give the Companys name due to Terms and Conditions but the user Oxymoron83 deleted an article which was in fact an agreed article by this person himself. As Proof my company will send a link to view the documents which are not confidential. Our Company understands that we are going against Wikipedias Terms and Conditions and this will never happen again. Our Company has never and never will act out any fraud on the internet. But Oxymoron, if you would like to reinstall that article that would be great. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Eiffel65333 (talk • contribs) 19:28, 10 Dec 2007

Please read WP:YFA to learn how to contribute constructively. --Oxymoron⁸³ 19:43, 10 December 2007 (UTC)

List of current world boxing champions

Dear Oxymoron83, the user with IP-address 212.219.94.158 constantly keeps vandalizing the above mentioned list and others, can you please block his IP for a while? Many thanks in advance, claudevsq (talk) 19:31, 10 December 2007 (UTC) N.B.: I wrote to you because you already blocked this user once as I saw on his discussion page...

This week you'll see no further vandalism from this IP, the IP seems to be active only on weekdays. --Oxymoron⁸³ 19:39, 10 December 2007 (UTC)

Danke vielmals, hab' gerade gesehen, dass Du Deutscher bist. Ich komme aus Luxemburg. Seit east718 nicht mehr da ist, muss ich mich ziemlich alleine rumschlagen... erst heute morgen hat Jmzjmz die Seite 8mal "vandalisiert"... Danke für deine Bemühungen! claudevsq (talk) 09:47, 11 December 2007 (UTC)

Keine Ursache. Von denen scheint wenigstens einer noch aktiv zu sein ;) --Oxymoron⁸³ 10:04, 11 December 2007 (UTC)

Ja, aber seit east718 nicht mehr da ist, kenne ich keinen admin mehr. Ich update die 'List of current world boxing champions' quasi im Alleingang. Wäre kein Problem, ohne die ständigen Vandalen. Ich habe höflich mit Jmzjmz gesprochen, aber siehe seine Diskussionsseite, er hat's gelöscht und schreibt nur was von "I love you so much it's not funny". Kannst du diesen A*** nicht sperren, oder mir wenigstens eine "semi-protection" für meine Liste machen, auch wenn's nur für 2 Wochen ist? Tut mir leid, wenn ich dich belästige, aber ich wäre dir sehr dankbar, da ich nicht weiss, an wen ich mich sonst wenden soll... claudevsq (talk) 13:29, 11 December 2007 (UTC)

Ich habe James mal eine etwas finalere Warnung gegeben, wenn er noch mal vandaliert kannst du ihn auf WP:AIV melden. Für eine Halbsperre ist momentan noch zu wenig los, wenn sich der Unfug fortsetzt kann man aber darüber nachdenken. Grüße --Oxymoron⁸³ 15:44, 11 December 2007 (UTC)

OK, klingt gut. Vielen, herzlichen Dank, und einen schönen Tag noch! claudevsq (talk) 16:06, 11 December 2007 (UTC)

Question

Wikipedia:Requests for checkuser/Case/Navnløs - The user in this RFCU was confirmed (By Deskana) to have evaded his blocks for 3RR (Twice). May I ask what is the "next step"? Scarian^Talk 19:54, 10 December 2007 (UTC)

Best you put the question whether to block the puppet or not under the CU result. I think it will make no difference as the puppet won't edit again anyway. --Oxymoron⁸³ 20:04, 10 December 2007 (UTC)

ARRGH - bad article(s) pinned on me... why?

• re: Speed Masters (or whatever it was) - that's the second time I put a speedy delete tag on something (for "nonsense", I think) and the whole article got pinned on me... so how does that happen? I'm trying to help out here and wind up looking bad... Psinu^{always forgets}_{to sign} 19:59, 10 December 2007 (UTC)

Ah, sorry, this message was placed in error. This can happen in normally rare cases when your tagging is made at the same time (in the range of few seconds) as the article is deleted. That this happened 2 times to you seems to be bad luck only. I've made a null edit to your talk page to say that my message was unjustified. --Oxymoron⁸³ 20:15, 10 December 2007 (UTC)

• • No prob. I was wondering how that happened. Those darn computing machines, messing things up all the time... Psinu^{always forgets}_{to sign} 20:26, 10 December 2007 (UTC)

Hey, while you're at it (MetricTest and Ambit Energy)

... you've got almost the same exact behavior going on at Ambit Energy as with Metric Test. You may want to give that a good hard look for deletion as well to stop them from messing around with it. Psinu^{always forgets}_{to sign} 20:25, 10 December 2007 (UTC)

Thanks, spam depolluted. --Oxymoron⁸³ 20:29, 10 December 2007 (UTC)

Thanks 6

Someone vandalized my Userspace! But a little angel came along and fixed it! Thank you! You can thank others by using {{subst:Vangel}}! Marlith ^T/C 04:49, 11 December 2007 (UTC) Marlith ^T/C 04:49, 11 December 2007 (UTC)

You're welcome! --Oxymoron⁸³ 08:36, 11 December 2007 (UTC)

Daedra

Dude, why did you delete that page? wikipedia is for supplying knowledge to the common folk,so why would you want to destroy something someone might want to read?--GARGRAFARR (talk) 04:56, 11 December 2007 (UTC)

Hi GARGRAFARR, please see Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Daedra. Oxy here deleted it because the Wikipedia community felt it should be. KnowledgeOfSelf | talk 05:04, 11 December 2007 (UTC)

Thanks KOS, nothing to add ;) --Oxymoron⁸³ 09:03, 11 December 2007 (UTC)

Chris6730

Hallo Oxymoron83!
17 Jahre Sperre für obigen Benutzer. Das nenne ich konsequent. ;-))
Gruß
--Fromgermany (talk) 15:50, 11 December 2007 (UTC)

Chris6730

17 years? That's a good time! :) Snowolf ^{How can I help?} 15:50, 11 December 2007 (UTC)

Yes, he/she said at the recent request for unblock that the account was compromised by another school mate. In 17 years they will be out of school and this won't happen again ;) --Oxymoron⁸³ 15:53, 11 December 2007 (UTC)

Aahahahaahahah. Happy editing, Snowolf ^{How can I help?} 15:54, 11 December 2007 (UTC)

Missing headline 4

stop deleting my page!!! this has happened so many times.... LOOK AT MY TALK PAGE PLEASE before yyou do this... I HAVE PERMISSION... so please put it back ASAP!!! you do not have the right to delete it when i have been given permission to have it on there by two different people on here... that makes me so upset and frusterated as i dont have the time to keep dealing with this:

I, User:Geomet, have been authorized by my employer, SGS, to release this material under the GNU Free Documentation License. To confirm my employment status, I have sent a message from my SGS account to User:Tonywalton, an administrator, who will vouch for this.

I put this on the talk page?? did you look???

Geomet (talk) 16:26, 11 December 2007 (UTC)

At the time when I deleted the page (11:26, 11 December) there was no such message at the talk page (it was created at 15:48, 11 December). Please also note that Wikipedia is not a platform for advertising ("it needs to be put on as my manager as requested it... to raise awareness about the topic" [1]) --Oxymoron⁸³ 16:39, 11 December 2007 (UTC)

Explain revert?

Can you please explain [2] revert? The subject has been discussed on the talk page, and there's been no one arguing to keep the info, and good reason to remove it. You are one of several people to have reverted, but no one bothers to go and actually make a good case for keeping the info. AKRadecki^Speaketh 16:49, 11 December 2007 (UTC)

4th generation fighter

Perhaps you should read the discussion page before reverting next time. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 141.157.252.153 (talk • contribs) 16:55, 11 Dec 2007

I was cleaning up the load of rubbish from the last hour that remained unreverted. The edit summary ("Kockit off") enticed me to revert this. I've re-reverted. --Oxymoron⁸³ 16:58, 11 December 2007 (UTC)

Help

A user keeps vandalising my talk page and articles and his own talkpage , 82.155.8.236

Looking at my talkhistory, you last revereted him. He is one of the most disgusting vandals I have ever met, so can you help me out a little?

thanks;

Cf38 (talk) 17:04, 11 December 2007 (UTC)

I think you meant another IP. The one that vandalized your talk page has been blocked ages ago ;). Addhoc got the talk page. Regards --Oxymoron⁸³ 17:08, 11 December 2007 (UTC)

User page vandalism

Good to know that whilst I was working away, you were defending the integrity of my user page! Thanks once again. Bencherlite^Talk 19:07, 11 December 2007 (UTC)

You're welcome! --Oxymoron⁸³ 20:14, 11 December 2007 (UTC)

Need help with Lara Roxx wiki

I have removed some POV statements from the Lara Roxx wiki but I am afraid that it needs some extra cleaning up which I am unable to do. Could you assist, please ? 165.145.224.92 (talk) 15:36, 12 December 2007 (UTC)

Sure, what do you want to do? --Oxymoron⁸³ 22:35, 12 December 2007 (UTC)

Archiving

Hi. Can you help me archieve my page by using cluebot? Because I've tried but I don't get it. I've read everything about it but I can't do it. Basically, I want to add the archive cabinet (like yours) and use cluebot to help me out.

can you help?

thanks a lot,

Cf38 21:16, 12 December 2007 (UTC)

Have you tried some kind of the following (this will archive every thread that wasn't answered for 3 days to an archive subpage for every month):

{{Archive box
|{{User:ClueBot III/ArchiveThis
|archiveprefix=User talk:Cf38/Archives/
|format=Y/F
|age=72
|index=yes
}}
}}

The parameters can be changed dependent on how do you want your archive. I personally prefer a imho more proper kind of archiving, I move my talk page after some time to a subpage. If you haven't already, maybe you want to read this page before you decide for one of the methodes. Regards --Oxymoron⁸³ 22:54, 12 December 2007 (UTC)

Patent Nonsense

Hello Oxymoron83,

Thank you for your work. Practitioners in your pulmonary field have helped me here in the United States.

Obviously the seasoned eye of an editor in promptly recognizing and deleting a newbie's patent nonsense page is unappreciated by the majority of Wikipedia readers.

I imagine the issue of creation of an archive of patent nonsense pages has been considered, both from the standpoint of humour, and as a reference for automatic machine recognition programs.

[See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nonsense]

Do any such humour or corpus archives exist? Any comments would be enlightening.

Also, as a newbie myself, perhaps you could instruct me about how to locate the author of a Wikipedia passage, without comparing each edit in the history list. Or, at least where to find such instruction.

Danke schon (pardon, mitout umlaut bitte)

SalineBrain SalineBrain (talk) 09:23, 13 December 2007 (UTC)

You can start here and follow the links to find some of these nonsense articles.

The author of a specific passage can only be found through the page history (that's why edit summaries are very much appreciated, imo they should become obligation). There's no such feature e. g. to dye the text passage correspondent to the author. Wikiweise provides such a feature (example, click on "Einfärben" at the bottom of the bar on the left). --Oxymoron⁸³ 09:58, 13 December 2007 (UTC)

Just some questions... and recommendations ;-)

Okay, I'm really curious... how exactly do you manage to do so many edits? Two months ago you got 11,000! :-o And about the recommendations... you better find another edit count now because wannabe kate doesn't handle any more than 45,000! :-p (Another small recommendation... maybe it's time to archive your talk page again.) -- Mentifisto 09:35, 13 December 2007 (UTC)

It's just training along with a well configured VF and some tools. Unfortunately there is too much vandalism compared to the amount of users caring about the recent changes, so that you can find something to revert every some seconds. Regarding the edit counter (for those who suffer from editcountitis), you can use a tool made by User:DaB.. Yes, and I'll archive my page today or tomorrow ;) --Oxymoron⁸³ 10:10, 13 December 2007 (UTC)

Actually I mean your link above in the toolbox with the wikipedia info logo in it named count, to find another edit counter. :-p And about vandal fighter... how did you configure it? -- Mentifisto 10:44, 13 December 2007 (UTC)

Thanks, it's fixed :)

I use the regexp blacklist (words that are likely associated with unconstructive edits), watch changes that are huge in size and get reverted users and users that had their page speedy deleted added to the blacklist. --Oxymoron⁸³ 10:54, 13 December 2007 (UTC)

How do you do that in VF? Actually I have vf-beren.jar but didn't configure it at all except making it open in Firefox because TW is very defective in Opera and it keeps adding articles/users/whichever in the watchlist even though I tried to disable that because it looked faulty. -- Mentifisto 11:08, 13 December 2007 (UTC)

It's all on the VF page, maybe it looks different, but the functions and behavior are the same. --Oxymoron⁸³ 11:12, 13 December 2007 (UTC)

And also it says that the stable release is at http://hekla.rave.org/vf/3.5 but that doesn't work. -- Mentifisto 11:17, 13 December 2007 (UTC)

Actually it says that "Downloads currently do not work. Try to download beren (see below)". And the functionality is as described there. --Oxymoron⁸³ 11:26, 13 December 2007 (UTC)

Oh yeah, I missed that... thanks then! -- Mentifisto 11:32, 13 December 2007 (UTC)

Socks keep your feet warm, right?

Do you think that we have a pair here? Ariel♥Gold 13:24, 13 December 2007 (UTC)

Yes, I think so. I wondered first where my warning at one user's talk page had gone, when I realized that these are 2 account. I also think User:Zman420 is related. --Oxymoron⁸³ 13:28, 13 December 2007 (UTC)

Yep, me too. You know how that extra sock always turns up without a match after laundry? Hrmm... lol. Anyway, that one was just blocked by SQL. Ariel♥Gold 13:35, 13 December 2007 (UTC)

And then, sometimes, the matching sock just shows up out of the blue... Ariel♥Gold 13:36, 13 December 2007 (UTC)

Thanks Ariel, they seem to have stopped for now :) --Oxymoron⁸³ 13:46, 13 December 2007 (UTC)

Tagged them all. Thanks for running around with me looking for lost laundry! Ariel♥Gold 13:51, 13 December 2007 (UTC)

No problem; btw, when will your request for enabling the button to change the Wikipedia access for such accounts to read-only finally start :P --Oxymoron⁸³ 13:56, 13 December 2007 (UTC)

Hahahaha I just about spit out my tea when I read that. "Read-only" lol. That, my dear, is the most original way yet, that I have been asked that question! Very excellent, thank you for brightening my morning! (Well, it is night for me, hee hee) For that answer, see here. (And that's meant as humor, lol.) Ariel♥Gold 14:05, 13 December 2007 (UTC)

(u) I believe we were promised mid-November.... My calendar must be off.... SQL^{Query me!} 14:08, 13 December 2007 (UTC)

mid-November ... then we have to wait 11 more months :( --Oxymoron⁸³ 14:15, 13 December 2007 (UTC)

LOL! Eh, most likely not that long, lol. I tell you what, if you can get Phaedriel back, I bet the link would be blue within days. :D Ariel♥Gold 14:18, 13 December 2007 (UTC)

Unfortunately this seems easier said than done :( --Oxymoron⁸³ 14:34, 13 December 2007 (UTC)

Reverting Justin

Hi, please note that this needed reverting further. Someone else has done it now. - Fayenatic (talk) 13:25, 13 December 2007 (UTC)

Yeah, thanks, but if you search a bit there are more edits I wasn't able to check from the past minutes, I'm busy stopping a sock farm at the moment, I'm only able to check these later, I'm not a robot. --Oxymoron⁸³ 13:29, 13 December 2007 (UTC)

OK, thanks. - Fayenatic (talk) 13:32, 13 December 2007 (UTC)

Sorry Fayenatic, that's my fault, I'm keeping Oxymoron busy looking for all the socks that got lost in the last laundry run! Ariel♥Gold 13:38, 13 December 2007 (UTC)

New to adding/editing at wikipedia can you help?

Hi Oxymoron83,

I am new to Wikipedia - well new to editing and adding pages - not new to using it. Thought it was finally time to start contributing...

So, I thought I would start with something I know. I've worked in the music industry for years first for a CD Manufacturer, Oasis CD (www.oasiscd.com), then for an online music community, Sonicbids (www.sonicbids.com). I've recently taken a position outside of the music industry but thought I'd do a quick search and see what companies in the Indie music scene turned up... I search on Oasis, Sonicbids, CD Baby, StubHub, etc.

CD Baby turned up: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CD_Baby StubHub turned up: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/StubHub

Sonicbids, turned up a deleted page. So, I tried to add a very basic page and you marked it for speedy deletion. I see that it was noted for blatant advertising, though not sure why? I tried to use a nobiased voice and provided links referencing outside sources. As I mentioned I'm new to adding/editing so I'm sure I will learn as I go though is there something else that I can/should do to make it more encyclopedia like?

Thanks for your help.

Kimberly Krazekimmy (talk) 14:14, 13 December 2007 (UTC)

Hello Kimberly, and welcome to Wikipedia! You have some links at your talk page now that should be helpful for the start. Important for you could also be the notability criteria for web content and Neutral point of view. Best you create a subpage, e. g. at User:Krazekimmy/Sonicbids to prepare the article (normally no one would delete it there, only e. g. if it were a blatant advertising). If you don't have the content on your hard disk or elsewhere, I can move the deleted article there. Regards --Oxymoron⁸³ 14:25, 13 December 2007 (UTC)

Thanks so much for reverting...

... the vandalism on my user page! --Paul Erik ^{(talk)(contribs)} 16:08, 13 December 2007 (UTC)

You're welcome! --Oxymoron⁸³ 16:09, 13 December 2007 (UTC)

Reverting and Reporting

Well, I don't think I've run across the new feature, yet. I've refreshed my cache, and I've made two reports to AIV, but nothing looked different. Maybe I just wasn't paying attention... Jauerback (talk) 16:55, 13 December 2007 (UTC)

query over deletion

Hi, Wanted to ask about the contuli.com page which you marked for speedy deletion, it was a work in progress about a site I was involved with initally a while back (admittedly maybe a conflict of interest here) and just wanted to put some info in on the technology behind it - keep getting asked so figured put it here (was going to do that this weekend, time permitting - as thought it was of interest) and link it to other pages on wiki e.g. the travelsupermarket one that use the same technology - but don't describe it, but think I've responded to late to add the hangon attribute to it. Thoughts on how to proceed? Perhaps a generic page, but then there's issues of other comparison sites having seperate pages? Advise appreciated, Thanks, Roy —Preceding unsigned comment added by Morganski (talk • contribs) 01:09, 14 Dec 2007

Hello Roy, there are some notability guidelines for webcontent. Especially you should cite reliable sources that establish them. The article has to be written in a neutral point of view and shouldn't read like an advertisement. Regards --Oxymoron⁸³ 15:33, 14 December 2007 (UTC)

Help

Hi! If you think it's appropriate, please block User talk:Smige30. It's a vandalism-only account. See the contributions and talk page history. Thank you. Oda Mari (talk) 19:00, 14 December 2007 (UTC)

Yes, this was a dispensable account, and has vandalized after a final warning. Happy editing. --Oxymoron⁸³ 19:05, 14 December 2007 (UTC)

Thank you for the quick action. Happy fighting! Oda Mari (talk) 19:08, 14 December 2007 (UTC)

Well Done!

		The RickK Anti-Vandalism Barnstar
		I seem to be seeing you everywhere in Recent Changes and AIV at the moment so here a barnstar for your sterling work. Well Done! -- Blake01 19:22, 14 December 2007 (UTC)

Thank you very much, one can't get enough of them ;) --Oxymoron⁸³ 19:28, 14 December 2007 (UTC)

Thankyou...

...for reverting the vandalism on my userpage. Keep up your most excellent work! :-) Lradrama 19:58, 14 December 2007 (UTC)

Lradrama has smiled at you! Smiles promote WikiLove and hopefully this one has made your day better. Spread the WikiLove by smiling at someone else, whether it be someone you have had disagreements with in the past or a good friend. Happy editing!
Smile at others by adding {{subst:Smile}} to their talk page with a friendly message.

Lradrama 19:58, 14 December 2007 (UTC)

No problem, thank you for the smile! --Oxymoron⁸³ 20:07, 14 December 2007 (UTC)

User talk:Chardish

There's a 7chan (or a 4chan) "raid" going on this user for some reason. So you did right in protecting that user talk page. (Background: both chans are apparently prone to people asking for "raids" on other people, and 4chan was hacked last night, which effectively shut it down. This led to a deluge of 4channers on 7chan. Idiots.) 204.52.215.107 (talk) 20:36, 14 December 2007 (UTC)

Thanks for the explanation, it's very much appreciated. After reading 4chan (never heard about it before) I think I got it. I was wondering before why there are sometimes attacks on user pages from multiple IPs from all over the world and the OP checks were negative. As it's a picture related page, you also answered my question why this "picture" is put on Wikipedia pages so often by IPs from every location. --Oxymoron⁸³ 20:56, 14 December 2007 (UTC)

User:Chardish

Hi there

• 10:01, 15 December 2007 Rifleman 82 (Talk | contribs | block) unprotected User talk:Chardish ‎ (heavy IP vandalism, requested by user)
• 01:01, 15 December 2007 Oxymoron83 (Talk | contribs | block) protected User talk:Chardish ‎ (heavy vandalism from multiple ips, user request [edit=autoconfirmed:move=autoconfirmed] (expires 01:01, 15 December 2007 (UTC))) (Change)

Sorry for stepping on your toes. The impression I had was that the protection had already expired (I am GMT+8). I'm reprotecting for 1 week (which was what I was originally trying to do just now). --Rifleman 82 (talk) 02:09, 15 December 2007 (UTC)

The protection had already expired (I protected for 8 hours only, because this is normally enough for the acute vandals to go away on user talk pages), so you did very right in reprotecting this. Thanks --Oxymoron⁸³ 09:36, 15 December 2007 (UTC)

just a quick opinion

I would just like a quick opinion regarding this adminship nomination no need to rush just curious Alexfusco5 23:31, 14 December 2007 (UTC)

I think you did right in declining this time, 2 more months of experience are imho reasonable. It is important to reflect the own behavior self-critical, for example the comments in the 'oppose' section from other RfAs are helpful. I thinks some work in the mainspace apart from reverting would be good; I personally would not oppose. --Oxymoron⁸³ 09:36, 15 December 2007 (UTC)

Thanks for the advice I don't make that many non-reverting edits to the mainspace because I am not much of a writer so I just do trivial fixes and updates to make up for my lack of writing skill Alexfusco5 15:06, 15 December 2007 (UTC)

The "Czech Vandal" is at it again...

This time, as 71.99.134.9 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · filter log · WHOIS · RDNS · RBLs · http · block user · block log). Since this is a dynamic IP range, I suggest semiprotecting the article for a bit. 128.2.251.157 (talk) 01:15, 16 December 2007 (UTC)

Thanks for your report. The page is already protected, better you report vandals to WP:AIV if I'm not active as I'm sleeping sometimes ;), best with a link to Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/IncidentArchive207#Dynamic ip. Regards --Oxymoron⁸³ 08:45, 16 December 2007 (UTC)

your message,

Hey there, I replied on my talk page, but looking a bit more at it I would be less inclined to AGF with ophois, as they have been bloced before for similar offences. Cheers ^Khukri 11:05, 16 December 2007 (UTC)

KBTL-FM speedy deletion

I'm following up on the speedy deletion of KBTL-FM why was this so quickly deleted? It was a new article which I'd accidentally pasted what should have gone on the talk page onto the main article page. Minutes later I noticed the issue and was in the process of correcting it when I found that the article had already been tagged for deletion and removed. Can you help me understand why this happened so quickly? --Rtphokie (talk) 15:31, 16 December 2007 (UTC)

There was no article, only 2 Wikiprojekt templates that don't belong in namespace 0. If you'd posted this on the talk page instead, it would have been deleted as WP:CSD#g8. --Oxymoron⁸³ 15:54, 16 December 2007 (UTC)

Understood. It was pasted into the wrong place. Something I was in the process of fixing when I found the article had been deleted. I didn't even get a chance to add a {{hangon}} tag. The article was gone within seconds. While I appreciate the effort to keep the cruft out of Wikipedia, wouldn't a note on the author's talk page had been a little more friendly under the circumstances? --Rtphokie (talk) 22:18, 16 December 2007 (UTC)

You have received the notification from the tagging user [3] and the "article" wasn't gone within seconds, but within 3 minutes. Although I know that this time period was nevertheless possibly too short tho add a 'hangon', there's no reason why a 'hangon' could have been useful here. The content was doubtlessly misplaced, a move to a proper (whichever) place didn't make any sense, the recreation of the 70 bytes (you had the content elsewhere) at the place this was meant to be was significant faster and lesser complicated. All in all I don't understand why the deletion of the non-article, whose content you didn't intend to keep, impaired you in creating the real article. (side note: speaking of quick is wrong here, e. g. such pages are deleted within 5-15 seconds in the daytime at the German Wikipedia) --Oxymoron⁸³ 23:48, 16 December 2007 (UTC)

It was pretty obvious what was going on here. It would have been far friendlier to place a note on my talk page than to just delete the article. What if a note hadn't been placed on my talk page about the speedy deletion by the nomintor? Would you have done it before deleting the article? If that didn't happen, I would have marked that article off my list and moved on and my mistake wouldn't have been caught. All I'm asking is for admins to slow down and think before they delete articles. Yes a short article with giberish needs to be deleted immediately. But when it's pretty obvious that someone made a simple mistake, tagging it and giving the author a heads up seems like a much more civil approach to me. Please remember that there are people on the other end of your deletions that spend a lot of time adding content to Wikipedia, it's frustrating when it's removed.--Rtphokie (talk) 12:12, 17 December 2007 (UTC)

Don't try to give a false color. You have been notified by the nominator, and you didn't spend a lot of time in creating what I've deleted, it was a mistakenly placed copy created during your mass pages creation which you intended to remove. The deletion itself wasted exactly 0 seconds of your time. The only additional time you spend is this discussion. I oppose your view that admins should slow down in general, there are a lot of administrative backlogs and CAT:CSD is nearly ever full. If you want to accuse me of not thinking before deleting, precautionary reading NPA wouldn't be wrong. The deletion of the non-article hasn't been done in error, maybe you wanna read again what I've written in my last comment. Although I know that there are people on the other end and it can be frustrating when something they saved is removed, the guidelines about what is considered a keepworthy article exist for a reason. The page you created was no such thing and qualified for speedy deletion, what however (I repeat) didn't impair the creation of the real article in any way. --Oxymoron⁸³ 14:11, 17 December 2007 (UTC)

Canvassing

M. Oxymoron, please excuse my error in reacting to a possible 3R. I noted I had also placed a request for help accidently on a user page and you had characterized it as "canvassing." Sorry about that, I had not considered that I was stepping out of line. I probably should have been more precise about making a request for discussion rather than action. Still learning the ropes even though I have been here going on a year but mainly concerned with writing, editing rather than issue resolution. Any advice for a true "moron"? FWIW, I placed an "invisible note" in the article directing new or potential editors to look at the talk age for issues that were contentious. I have also started a talk page "string" so that other editors can take part and work towards a consensus. Bzuk (talk) 16:04, 16 December 2007 (UTC).

No problem; the path you follow now is the correct one. Sending messages that are written to influence the outcome of a discussion to multiple Wikipedians is considered disruptive. --Oxymoron⁸³ 16:22, 16 December 2007 (UTC)

Gotcha, as indicated in the talk page, I am open to discussion and do not want to swing things one way or other on Alexander Graham Bell's nationality. I think content issues can be sorted out but constant reversions lead to a "heated" exchange that should be avoided and I sought out hopefully an admin that would help. Thanks for your assistance and advice. Bzuk (talk) 16:28, 16 December 2007 (UTC).

Some quick admin help, please?

See the recent contributions of NangOnamos. The moves he made are undiscussed, and there's a history split on two pages owing to cut-and-paste moves. Additionally, for some unknown reason, I seem to be unable to move pages, at all. I get an "error submitting form" at the top. No idea why. In any case, could you un-screw up the moves and things for me? Thanks! Gscshoyru (talk) 21:44, 16 December 2007 (UTC)

Looks tricky, I will look at it. Pashtun Mafia is the title where it should be? --Oxymoron⁸³ 21:48, 16 December 2007 (UTC)

Yeah. That's where it should be. Thanks for the help! Gscshoyru (talk) 22:10, 16 December 2007 (UTC)

 Done The reason why you weren't able to move the page was, that you can only move a page to an existing title if (1) the target page has only 1 edit in the history and (2) the target page is a redirect to the source page. In this case the target page (Pashtun Mafia) was a redirect to another page (Afghanistan Opium Mafia) instead of Afghan Opium Mafia, because NangOnamos moved the original Pashtun Mafia page twice to different titles. --Oxymoron⁸³ 22:17, 16 December 2007 (UTC)

Semi Protect Request

Thanks for putting the article Washington & Jefferson College on your watchlist to keep an eye out for vandals. I'm just curious, how much vandal activity is required in order to get some semi-protect status? Thanks! --Eshatologist (talk) 22:34, 16 December 2007 (UTC)

Semiprotection causes a lot of damage to the project, standard for an article is 'open'. I count only 6 reverts in the past 3 months, this is way too less to justify a semiprotection at this time. You might look at the pages that were protected at WP:RFPP to get a view what is considered too much vandalism. Regards --Oxymoron⁸³ 22:49, 16 December 2007 (UTC)

Creation of a single-purpose account

Hi Mr. Oxy, it's as if I know you already!! Financialmodel appears to be an editor who has an abiding interest in proving the Eurofighter Typhoon is better than the F-22 Raptor as all of his edits seem to revolve around introducting contentious or controversial data regarding the capabilities of the two aircraft types. Can admins please look at the two articles and determine whether this is a case of fandom or something more of a sock issue. FWIW, he has already been involved in a 3R issue and has been noted on the Admin 3R board. What more can be done? (Hint, hint...) {:¬∆) Bzuk (talk) 02:37, 17 December 2007 (UTC).

To keep the discussion together, I've answered here. --Oxymoron⁸³ 10:55, 17 December 2007 (UTC)

Talk:G Holland

I saw your response there only when the page had been deleted already, don't know why it says that you've edited the page at 10:04, when it was deleted at 10:03 o'clock. In case you want to answer at the user's talk page, I've put the text here. Happy editing. --Oxymoron⁸³ 11:13, 17 December 2007 (UTC)

Danke dir, ich werde dem Benutzer auf seiner TP antworten. ~ | twsx | ^talk_cont | 11:21, 17 December 2007 (UTC)

Hab's in der Zwischenzeit schon wieder von deiner Disku entfernt ;), hatte da ein Problem mit der Zeitverschiebung und dachte, du hättest erst direkt davor geantwortet, so dass Rob deine Antwort nicht mehr lesen konnte. Aber da das wohl nicht der Fall ist, erübrigt sich wohl die Antwort auf seiner TP (wenngleich sie nicht schadet). --Oxymoron⁸³ 11:26, 17 December 2007 (UTC)

grrr.......

dangit, why did you delete my subpage? i undid it but now all my user boxes are gone thanks alot!ANOMALY-117 (talk) 14:34, 17 December 2007 (UTC)

I didn't delete any of your subpages, I moved the page that you had mistakenly created in the Template space and that does clearly belong to your userspace to your userspace instead of deleting it, because it was tagged for speedy by another user. I told you that with the edit to your userpage, but as you reverted my edit, they are gone of course. If you revert your revert they will be back again. --Oxymoron⁸³ 14:41, 17 December 2007 (UTC)

ok so how do i put them into a subpage? and could you help me with that i am very busy as of late.ANOMALY-117 (talk) 14:44, 17 December 2007 (UTC) sorry if i sounded mean

They are already at a subpage (its all in my edit to your userpage); all you have to do is to revert your revert at your userpage and all will be like it was before ;) --Oxymoron⁸³ 14:48, 17 December 2007 (UTC)

i mean a link on my page goes to another page that have all my userboxes on it.ANOMALY-117 (talk) 14:54, 17 December 2007 (UTC)

Of course, as I said this has been moved to your userspace and I corrected the link. --Oxymoron⁸³ 15:04, 17 December 2007 (UTC)

You blocked 205.119.61.26 - THANK YOU!

This IP is our school's network IP (Grand County High). I've seen the edit logs and it's disgusting on many levels - literally and metaphorically. Why kids are allowed on the Internet, I don't know. Please, PLEASE keep this IP blocked forever - these kids shouldn't have the priveledge to mess with Wikipedia, unless they figure out how to make an account, which most of them couldn't even bother with in the first place.

Thanks in advance.

~SZF —Preceding unsigned comment added by SZF2001 (talk • contribs) 15:01, 17 Dec 2007

Yes, this behavior qualified for a block; but IP addresses are not indefinitely blocked, because the owner may change. Hopefully these kids grow up sometime, and maybe they contribute constructively. If not, I'm sure this IP will be quickly reblocked. Happy editing --Oxymoron⁸³ 15:11, 17 December 2007 (UTC)

I have written an article to our school news paper on how to directly come in contact with our schools edits. Maybe some parents will read it and question what their kids are really doing. Your block seems to still be in effect, I had to log in to discuss this further. ^_^ SZF2001 (talk) 21:28, 17 December 2007 (UTC)

Thank you for your efforts! The current block is in effect until March 4, 2008, so you will have to log in some more times I suppose. Regards --Oxymoron⁸³ 21:32, 17 December 2007 (UTC)

Indiekarma

You deleted the indiekarma-page that I created. The reason I created it was so other users could click on it and easily add information. Before my edit there was only an external link to the company in the text of another article. So what was I supposed to do according to you if not create a page the way I did? I even added a request for more information on the talk page of the article I created. Can you fix this so people start adding info about that company? I want to know more about the company in question. I believe that company has an implementation of an idea that I've never seen before and is therefore notable. Tommy (talk) 20:06, 17 December 2007 (UTC)

Ok, I see now that you didn't simply revert my edit. You only deleted my article. A problem with that is that now people who do not already know the link to the company in question, must google or it. Before our edits, anyone could just click on the external link and be linked to their official site. I didn't want to delete info even if it was only a link. Tommy (talk) 20:11, 17 December 2007 (UTC)

Hello Tommy, maybe you want to read your talk page again, all the relevant information is already there. The page you created consisted solely of an external link to the website - you know already that we are writing an encyclopedia, Wikipedia is not a container for external links. If you want to write an article, please note that articles must be on notable subjects and should provide references to reliable sources that verify their content.

Your removal of the external link from Micropayment was correct (although made for another reason), as it doesn't comply with the guidelines for external links. --Oxymoron⁸³ 21:04, 17 December 2007 (UTC)

Hello again. I don't know the official rules of editing Wikipedia as good as you do. Usually following (my subjective) common sense has worked for me. I still haven't gotten an answer to my question I gave you: What should I have done to create a stub so others could continue to add information? I argue that a stub is better than nothing. Even in an encyklopedia. Do you and the rules not agree? Tommy (talk) 11:43, 18 December 2007 (UTC)

Please read Stub (also this link is already on your talk page) to learn what the minimum requirements for a stub are. A page that has exclusively an external link in it and no additional knowledge isn't a stub. Wikipedia:Your first article may also be helpful for you.--Oxymoron⁸³ 17:47, 18 December 2007 (UTC)

User talk:You know who dis is

I blocked this vandal. Bearian (talk) 21:37, 17 December 2007 (UTC)

Yes I know ;) --Oxymoron⁸³ 21:38, 17 December 2007 (UTC)

Thanks :-)

Thanks for reverting the vandalism on my user page and for blocking the vandal :-) User Doe _☻T ^☼C 23:25, 17 December 2007 (UTC)

No problem :) --Oxymoron⁸³ 08:41, 18 December 2007 (UTC)

SSP case

see this — Rlevse • Talk • 11:16, 18 December 2007 (UTC)

Thanks, primarily I wanted to complete the list. --Oxymoron⁸³ 17:16, 18 December 2007 (UTC)

THANKS FOR SEMI-PROTECTING MY COUNTRY'S ARTICLE

I congratulate you almost a month late in keeping the article about the Philippines semi-protected from vandalism. No barnstars and other stuff except due recogntiton. As a suggestion, I would like you to extend the limit until 19 January 2008 just in case. Are you pro-Gloria or anti-Gloria? Just wondering. iaNLOPEZ1115 (talk) 14:08, 18 December 2007 (UTC)

I don't want to extend the semi protection prematurely; if the high levels of vandalism continue after the protection has expired, please file a report to Requests for page protection (instructions there). Which Gloria do you mean? --Oxymoron⁸³ 17:14, 18 December 2007 (UTC)

Your monobook

:) Let's see if I understand how it works ;-) Snowolf ^{How can I help?} 19:07, 18 December 2007 (UTC)

You should also update the "openTalkPage" parameter in the Twinkleconfig. --Oxymoron⁸³ 19:11, 18 December 2007 (UTC)

Uh? It's working perfectly ;-) I had to copy the autowarning script in my userspace. You hard-coded the marking of the warnings as minor (I prefer them as major, or otherwise the nice orange box won't come up ;-) ). Snowolf ^{How can I help?} 13:24, 19 December 2007 (UTC)

The box doesn't come up on minor edits? I tested it and the box came up. Also the responds from the users warned at their talk page argue for this. The minor edit is useful to differ which warnings have been made by the tool and which by hand for debugging. You should nevertheless change the above line, so that you can warn IPs for other reasons than vandalism (if you want to :) ) --Oxymoron⁸³ 15:38, 19 December 2007 (UTC)

Matthew Cooper

My apologies, I was unaware of that. I simply sought to disambiguate the five Matt and Matthew Coopers, a change that was sorely needed. Thank you for the advice. If such a situation reoccurs, I'll know what to do. Best, AlasdairGreen27 (talk) 17:30, 19 December 2007 (UTC)

No problem, I only wanted to let you know, because repairing such things is more work than to do them directly correct. To create a disambiguation page as such was a good idea. Happy editing :) --Oxymoron⁸³ 17:52, 19 December 2007 (UTC)

hey

ok i dont remember what i wrote but sorry xD —Preceding unsigned comment added by 89.216.170.18 (talk • contribs) 20:46, 19 Dec 2007

No problem. --Oxymoron⁸³ 08:24, 20 December 2007 (UTC)

That was a fast ban

I didn't have time to vandalise :( 88.109.66.114 (talk) 14:26, 22 December 2007 (UTC)

Actually it was a block, and it was my intention not to let you vandalise. --Oxymoron⁸³ 14:28, 22 December 2007 (UTC)

Ok! 88.109.66.114 (talk) 14:29, 22 December 2007 (UTC)

Catherine Stewart

Sorry, I didn't spotted your latest revert, only the first. Reverted myself. Snowolf ^{How can I help?} 15:14, 22 December 2007 (UTC)

No problem, I guessed something like this :) --Oxymoron⁸³ 15:15, 22 December 2007 (UTC)

Success

Thanks Oxy, it looks great. I can't wait to try it out. That last one listed will come in most handy. ;) Happy holidays. KnowledgeOfSelf | talk 18:08, 23 December 2007 (UTC)

numerification deletion

Hi, this entry is a neologism that our family has started to use to refer to the process of identifying someone by their phone # on one's own cellular device or pda. Why was it deleted? As it is a new word, it by definition would have no citations or sources.

Your article was only a short dictionary definition and also, as you said yourself, a neologism. --Oxymoron⁸³ 15:50, 25 December 2007 (UTC)

≈Tulkolahten≈^≈talk≈ has smiled at you! Smiles promote WikiLove and hopefully this one has made your day better. Spread the WikiLove by smiling at someone else, whether it be someone you have had disagreements with in the past or a good friend. Happy editing!
Smile at others by adding {{subst:Smile}} to their talk page with a friendly message.

Thank you!

Thank you for the smile. I only know about this because you and Someguy1221 told me :) . --Oxymoron⁸³ 18:28, 27 December 2007 (UTC)

Daniel Shimmin

You seem to have deleted Daniel Shimmin, why did you do this?. It wasn't going against any terms and conditions, could you re do this article please and reply in the simplest form. Not all the technical and logical rubbish. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Wynnstay333 (talk • contribs) 00:10, 29 Dec 2007

It was an article about a person that didn't indicate why he is notable, the article was written in an attack style and completely unsourced. Regarding the multiple accounts you use here (e. g. User:Eiffel65333), WP:SOCK may also be of interest for you. --Oxymoron⁸³ 15:24, 29 December 2007 (UTC)

Template:People of the Three Kingdoms

Could you please change the protection on the template to semi-protect? The disputes have pretty much been resolved in the WP:3K, and I would like to do work on the template to make the proper adjustments. thank you. --EveryDayJoe45 (talk) 19:44, 30 December 2007 (UTC)

Although I wasn't able to find anything that can be called a resolution — let's give it a try. Make sure you don't continue the revert-war. --Oxymoron⁸³ 21:08, 30 December 2007 (UTC)

Thanks so much for protecting my userpage

:) Judgesurreal777 (talk) 00:23, 31 December 2007 (UTC)

You're welcome! --Oxymoron⁸³ 00:27, 31 December 2007 (UTC)

Schönes neues Jahr!

Hallo, Oxymoron83. Ich wünsche Dir ein erfolgreiches, gesundes, friedvolles und glückliches neues Jahr. :) Liebe Grüße von —αἰτίας

Vielen Dank. --Oxymoron⁸³ 12:03, 31 December 2007 (UTC)