User talk:Dennette/Archive 2

Archive moved into userspace

Hi again Dennette....I am not sure if you will get this message, but I was compelled to inform you. I have moved you archive into your userpace. It was in the article space. I changed the link at the top of your page.

Good luck with wherever life takes you...cheers, The ikiroid (talk·desk·Advise me) 23:05, 25 September 2006 (UTC)

Thanks ... I got drawn back when somebody asked me to look up spmething, and I made the mistake of checking my watchlist. <Heavy Sigh!> --Dennette 03:09, 8 October 2006 (UTC)

Template:User Philmont drew me back

I got drawn back to editing by some recent changes to U.S. 366th Infantry Regiment, and decided to help an anoymous user create Category:Wikipedians who survived Philmont ... I tried to modify {{user Philmont}}, and had to edit it 3 times before I got it right! (Now that I think about it, my "improvement" was actually redundant, so the effort was wasted.) Well, that should satisfy my Wikipediholia for a while! Dennette 13:51, 14 November 2006 (UTC)

Anonymous WikiGnome or Sockpuppet?

I'm here to repair it, not to defend it.

— Anonymous WikiGnome

OK, time to make the public declaration ... I suffer from Schizoaffective Disorder, which sometimes manifests as borderline Dissociative Identity Disorder ... in English, that means that my Manic-Depression can manifest itself in a Jekyll and Hyde kind of way, and sometimes my Evil Twin gets his hand on my passwords and credit card numbers, and I can't always keep him away from the keyboard.

Sometimes, I just want to revert some obvious vandalism, or I'll see something that makes me just go Monkish and I'll start clicking ISBNs and adding {{cite book}} templates to references ... then I'll start looking at other pages, and what started out innocently enough takes a wrong turn, and Bad Denny becomes the dominant personality.

At least by not using my registered logon, I can keep my Very Bad half from turning into a Real Flaming WikiTroll when he dons his Cloak of Righteous Indignation (he's anonymous, so the other WikiTrolls ignore him) ... like I said, there's both an "adult" and a "child" using this broadband connection, so my apologies for the disruptions ... I stand by most of my edit history as a WikiGnome, with no apologies for any of my reverts of what I considered vandalism, POV, or OR.

Which brings me to a recent incident ... my ISP changes my IP address at random intervals, and because I'm anal about signing my posts on Talk pages, I sometimes slip and use the current IP signature while loggged in ... and that's when someone jumps on me for being a sockpuppet. To quote from the official policy,

Do not use multiple accounts to create the illusion of greater support for an issue, to mislead others, or to circumvent a block.

Since I am not creating another account, and do not engage in any of the forbidden practices (although I may occasionally Comment on a AfD to point out an overlooked issue or related article), I resent the implication that I am acting in Bad Faith.

It's pretty easy for someone to track down the various IP address I've used since I "resigned" several months ago (I openly admit to having used 141.156.240.102 and then 72.75.93.131 about a month later), and to be quite honest, it's people who have nothing better to do than actually perform such a background search that frighten me ... I'm not running around trying to influence opinions ... my Other Half has engaged in some disruptive behavior, and for using the veil of anonymity to avoid embarrassment, I plead guilty as charged ... but none of those issues are ever revisited from a different IP address ... and specifically because anonymous user opinions are discounted in most discussions, I am not tempted to participate in them.

I guess what I'm trying to say is that Wikipedia is a codependent enabler of my dysfunction, but as an anonymous WikiGnome, I am able to make contributions without exposing myself to opportunities for mischief, even if that sounds counter-intuitive. So, if you've "found" me, then congratulations. Now please go away and leave me alone. —Dennette (talk · contribs) 10:21, 9 December 2006 (UTC)

Other IPs I've used that I don't want to forget (in numerical order):

• 72.75.72.174 (talk · contribs)
• 72.75.85.159 (talk · contribs)
• 72.75.104.44 (talk · contribs)
• 72.75.105.165 (talk · contribs)
• 72.75.126.37 (talk · contribs)

I may come back to add more some other day. --Dennette 03:35, 1 April 2007 (UTC)

More IP accounts

In the interest of demonstrating my willingness to remain LoJacked, these are the IPs I've used for edits since April 4, 2007 ...

• 68.239.79.97 (talk · contribs) - 2007-04-05 to 2007-05-03
  ... this one lasted for almost a month, which is a personal record for me with this Verizon Mid-Atlantic DSL connection.

• 72.75.73.158 (talk · contribs) - 2007-05-03 to 2007-05-06
  ... this one got speedy blocked from editing for a week, but it was lifted within a few hours by the blocking admin when Some Other Editors appealed on my behalf ... they documented my systematic "sour grapes" harassment and persecution by a frustrated, anti-deletionist editor who assumed Bad Faith because I put speedy delete tags on their stub articles (which were restored only after beau coup messages were exchanged) while at the same time asserting my right to remain "anonymous."

• 68.239.79.82 (talk · contribs) - 2007-05-06 to 2007-05-31
  ... begun less than an hour after the block, but before it was lifted an hour later ... not that it really mattered ... "Blocking anonymous IPs from editing is like herding cats."

• 72.75.100.232 (talk · contribs) - 2007-05-31 to 2007-06-03
  ... due to the weather, this one only lasted for 100 hours :-)

• 72.75.70.147 (talk · contribs) - 2007-06-03 to 2007-06-24
  ... my previous IP address, until a momentary power interruption @ 10:02, 24 June 2007 (UTC)

• 72.75.85.234 (talk · contribs) - 2007-06-24 to date
  ... my current IP address

Looks like the djinn got out of the bottle ... again. <Heavy Sigh!> --Dennette 05:45, 7 May 2007 (UTC)

While doing the housekeeping for the move to this account, I noticed that 141.156.240.102 (talk · contribs) had evaporated (but not the edit history) … maybe it happens automagically after six months, or maybe someone tagged it for speedy deletion as an unused account … in any event, I'll have to be sure and migrate some of the sandboxes with each IP change so as not to lose them. —72.75.70.147 12:44, 8 June 2007 (UTC)

Thanks to being upset over personal attacks by a malicious sock/meatpuppet from Hong Kong, I accidentally outed myself again, and just five hours after an IP change ... I blame it on the stress, but since the damage is already been done, I'll take this opportunity to update this list for the first time since early May. —Dennette 15:42, 24 June 2007 (UTC)

Thanks for your help on Khaleel Mohammed

Nuff said. Nlsanand 07:08, 28 December 2006 (UTC)

SPAM #4

A deletion review in which you participated has been relisted: Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Rafed.net (2nd nomination).
brenneman 02:03, 4 January 2007 (UTC)

The National Clapping Association

Done, thanks for letting me know. Nishkid64 (talk) 16:33, 4 May 2007 (UTC)

Update: User:Nwilson123 has been indefinitely blocked for recreating this nonsense article. --Dennette 05:45, 7 May 2007 (UTC)

Image copyright problem with Image:Gehaeuse.gif

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