User talk:Hersfold/Archive 58 (October 2011)
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Shall I change "subst" to "safesubst"? LikeLakers2 (talk | Sign my guestbook!) 14:37, 2 October 2011 (UTC)
- And can we move this to Template space? I think it's ready, and stands as a significant contribution to better understanding during discussion on user and article Talk pages (yes, I suppose it can help spread the wikilove, too. sheesh.). --Lexein (talk) 16:28, 2 October 2011 (UTC)
- You're all welcome to do what you'd like with it - I'd forgotten that was in my userspace. Hersfold (t/a/c) 16:40, 2 October 2011 (UTC)
- Is this your cat? Do you want it? Do you need a housesitter? Here's your newspaper. Can I have the coupons? (A joke, re being an unintentional pest) --Lexein (talk) 16:46, 2 October 2011 (UTC)
- You're all welcome to do what you'd like with it - I'd forgotten that was in my userspace. Hersfold (t/a/c) 16:40, 2 October 2011 (UTC)
Hello! My name is Belugaboy, and by now, you and I both have heard of the Motto Shop, and if not, there's a Motto Shop! It's an exclusive place where users can get their own motto to live by on the wiki. It's great, but we're really running slow, in fact, we haven't seen a customer in months. So we thought YOU, the contributors to Motto of the Day, could spread the word to your WikiFriends, heck, order yourself one, whether you have or haven't before. Thank you and warm regards to all of you!
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Is this still running? [Also, can ye reply here?] 86.176.222.245 (talk) 23:49, 6 October 2011 (UTC)
- I run it on occasion. It needs some updates, which is why I haven't run it lately. Hersfold (t/a/c) 03:45, 7 October 2011 (UTC)
FYI
FYI, as per your previous involvement, you may be interested in Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Clarification#Request_for_clarification:_Arbcom-unblocked_editors. Cheers, Russavia Let's dialogue 18:21, 8 October 2011 (UTC)
Sock
Hi Hersfold. Could you check whether User:Jorge Koli is related to the banned User:AlimNaz a.k.a. User:Lagoo sab? I just have some reservations, looking at some of this user's editing patterns. Although this user did their first edit on the 11th of September, they seem to have an editing experience and know-how of Wikipedia that seems to precede the date. The latest sockpuppet of this user, User:Mirwais Hotak, was blocked on the 2nd of September which is coincidentally 9 days before this user's first edit. Thanks and regards, Mar4d (talk) 02:43, 9 October 2011 (UTC)
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Hi. Isn't it better to respond to the editor's unblock request instead of reverting it? — Malik Shabazz Talk/Stalk 04:02, 14 October 2011 (UTC)
- Generally yes, but this is blatant and obvious trolling. I was operating on the WP:DFTT principle. Hersfold (t/a/c) 04:27, 14 October 2011 (UTC)
- Makes sense. Thank you. — Malik Shabazz Talk/Stalk 04:30, 14 October 2011 (UTC)
I'm afraid you did not look into this quite deep enough. When I looked at their contribs it was clear that they had made edits as recently as August, despite the fact that their block log indicated they had been blocked since 2005. The account was blocked, then renamed to allow the person now operating it to use their real name. The wonderful new software package apparently decided to move the block settings back, in effect unblocking an abusive sockpuppet account and blocking a completely innocent good faith user. Apparently there is nothing we can do to stop this awful untested, garbage heap of new software and we are forced to just accept it despite the fact that it seems to have created far more problems than it has solved. Beeblebrox (talk) 02:17, 16 October 2011 (UTC)
- >_< I'm getting really tired of this 1.18 crap. Someone should really tell the developers that making a top 10 website their beta testing ground is an absolutely terrible idea. Kinda wondering what they were smoking at the time. Hersfold (t/a/c) 02:23, 16 October 2011 (UTC)
- Just randomly stalking here, it really is crazy that Wikimedia wikis are testing out 1.18 before a stable release of it is even available on mediawiki.org. I don't know when it was enabled here, but early on it was breaking basically everything in the rc... anyways. Ajraddatz (Talk) 03:40, 16 October 2011 (UTC)
- I've gotten so aggravated about it I actually resorted to posting on Jimbo's talk page to see if he would step in and do something. Posting at WP:VPT just gets you a lot of "we know and maybe someday we'll fix it." Beeblebrox (talk) 16:48, 16 October 2011 (UTC)
- Just randomly stalking here, it really is crazy that Wikimedia wikis are testing out 1.18 before a stable release of it is even available on mediawiki.org. I don't know when it was enabled here, but early on it was breaking basically everything in the rc... anyways. Ajraddatz (Talk) 03:40, 16 October 2011 (UTC)
Thank you!
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- Thanks, DQ. Hope everything's going well. :-) Hersfold (t/a/c) 00:59, 17 October 2011 (UTC)
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Blocked proxy at 70.42.29.3
Could you take a look at User talk:70.42.29.3. He says it's a secure proxy, not an open one, and he can't log into his account. As this means nothing to me (Oh, Vienna!) I don't want to take any action. If you're sure it's an open proxy, I'll happily decline his unblock appeal --Elen of the Roads (talk) 21:34, 21 October 2011 (UTC)
- If I blocked it, that means I was pretty darn sure, but I'll take a look. Hersfold (t/a/c) 21:50, 21 October 2011 (UTC)
- I get a login screen, but I am not sure how difficult it is to get an account. I'm not comfortable unblocking it, but you may want to run it by OPP just in case. I think I blocked this because there was a suspicious account editing from the IP address, and we noticed the open ports I listed after looking into it further. Hersfold (t/a/c) 21:56, 21 October 2011 (UTC)
- Have posted at OPP. Elen of the Roads (talk) 21:29, 22 October 2011 (UTC)
- I get a login screen, but I am not sure how difficult it is to get an account. I'm not comfortable unblocking it, but you may want to run it by OPP just in case. I think I blocked this because there was a suspicious account editing from the IP address, and we noticed the open ports I listed after looking into it further. Hersfold (t/a/c) 21:56, 21 October 2011 (UTC)
Proposal
This is a notice that your proposal almost two months out has been closed at the village pump. Permalink to closure -- DQ (t) (e) 17:07, 22 October 2011 (UTC)
- I had completely forgotten about that. Thanks for the heads-up. Hersfold (t/a/c) 18:50, 22 October 2011 (UTC)
unsuspend
please unsuspend me again and assume a faith because the account was created by accident and the person who suspended me doesn't reply so please un suspend thanks. Puffin Let's talk! 14:39, 23 October 2011 (UTC)
- Can you explain to me how you accidentally reopen, reserve, and close a request that had already been closed half an hour previously? It also doesn't look as though you were the one who created the account, unless I'm mistaken... I'm willing to consider this, as it's been a year, however "it was an accident" doesn't really seem to fit. Hersfold (t/a/c) 18:50, 23 October 2011 (UTC)
- Well, you see, if I do recall correctly, I clicked a button by accident and then tried to fix it and I think I just left it, I can't remember if I actually created the account or not. Puffin Let's talk! 07:48, 24 October 2011 (UTC)
- Ok, I'll reactivate your account, but please take some time to review the ACC guide again, and remember that if a button is there, you can click on it and it will do something. If you have clicked something by accident, ask a tool admin or another user for help with fixing it. See you around. Hersfold (t/a/c) 22:48, 24 October 2011 (UTC)
WP:ACC question
Hello Hersfold, I recently reserved an account on WP:ACC, however it was too similar to an existing local account. It says to check the "Ignore spoofing checks" box on the Account Creation page, however I can't seem to find that field. Do you think you can help me? Thanks -- Luke (Talk) 21:28, 25 October 2011 (UTC)
- It requires the account creator user right. ΔT The only constant 21:38, 25 October 2011 (UTC)
- Ah that's why. -- Luke (Talk) 21:44, 25 October 2011 (UTC)
- The ACC system is usually good about identifying these and automatically deferring them to "account creators". Until you have that right (which we usually don't grant until you hit the six accounts/day limit and have demonstrated some clue) please avoid reserving these; if the system failed to identify one where that's a problem, defer it to account creators manually. Hersfold (t/a/c) 23:15, 25 October 2011 (UTC)
- Ah that's why. -- Luke (Talk) 21:44, 25 October 2011 (UTC)
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