KalevTait

Welcome

User:Slowking Man/Regi --Slowking Man 03:07, Dec 12, 2004 (UTC)

Mongoose Lemur

Very well done! Thanks! I've made some minor edits, all pretty much of the minor type. You can find species authority on www.redlist.org when looking for their current conservation status, or use "_simple" tagged onto the template (where I put "_parens"). And I'll reiterate the above: Welcome! - UtherSRG 14:57, 12 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Lady Tara

To be honest, I'm not particularly clear. But Lady Tara seems to be a sockpuppet - half of her edits are just attempts to irk CheeseDreams (who, you'll note, I very much don't like). She made a pretty unconscionable personal attack, and the whole exchange on the talk page was nothing but personal needling. If you want to find a sysop to reverse the ban, go ahead, but Lady Tara is pretty clearly a troll. A question - how did this come to your attention? Most of your edits have had to do with articles on primates. john k 02:06, 13 Dec 2004 (UTC)

I came across this from browsing Special:Ipblocklist. Being a new user I was currious what, in general, constituted grounds for being blocked. -KalevTait 13:57, 13 Dec 2004 (UTC)

As an addition, I think it's one thing to make angry personal comments in the midst of a legitimate argument over article content. I would not ban someone in such a case. But this was very clearly not what was going on - Lady Tara, with no apparent precursor, just started insulting CheeseDreams on the latter's talk page. This is pretty clearly trolling, and when that trolling includes homophobic slurs, the user ought to be blocked. john k 02:11, 13 Dec 2004 (UTC)

I think that CheeseDreams probably gets under peoples skins. It is not unconcievible to me that Lady Tara was reacting to something that CheeseDreams had done elsewhere. Her attack on CheeseDreams was certainly not appropriate, but if she is not a sock puppet (which is unknowable), then I think that blocking her without prior warning is not as forgiving as I would like. -KalevTait 13:57, 13 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Apart from being warned on multiple occasions, should Lady Tara be a sock puppet used to commit abuse, then blocking is entirely appropriate. The other account used (the one owning the sock puppet) will still be 100% usable. Also, blocking will reveal Lady Tara's ip address, and simultaneously block the sock-puppet owner committing the abuse. The alleged sock puppet holder has made some really quite horrific personal attacks on numerous users, and really does deserve some formal punishment. See Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/Rienzo.

I should also say, as far as I can tell, my post on your talk page was good intentioned trolling. I think that it is extremly important that anyone doing any policing is extremly clear that their course of action is correct before they do anything. I'm not clear that in this case you were doing so, and so I posted to find out your reaction (and I'm sorry that it also atracted the attention of those looking for a reason to make an attack on you). IMO, your reaction is mixed, and I would like to encourage you to make sure, for yourself, that your actions are correct before you take them. I think that you do this for the most part, but I want to encourage you to keep on top of yourself. -KalevTait 13:57, 13 Dec 2004 (UTC)

No, you're certainly right, and it would appear that I probably overstepped the bounds. I think Lady Tara is pretty clearly a sock puppet - she has almost no edits that are not personal attacks on CheeseDreams. i actually checked her user contributions before blocking, and it pretty much screamed sock puppet to me. But yeah, I need to think before I act more. I've done a couple of quasi-inappropriate things with my sysop powers in fits of anger over the last few days (see again CheeseDreams getting under people's skins), and I need to cool out. I think I may voluntarily withdraw from all sysop activities besides deleting redirect pages for moves for a month or so. john k 16:58, 13 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Editing Jesus-related articles and providing substantial academic evidence questioning historicity of Jesus, and also of the bible, is inevitably going to get under certain people's skin. CheeseDreams 19:50, 16 Jan 2005 (UTC)

Primates category rework

After some good discussion on the talk for WP:PRIM with User:Marskell, I've begun work on cleaning up category:Early hominids. Please come to Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Primates/category rework to weigh in your opinion on what direction to take. - UtherSRG (talk) 13:13, 15 September 2005 (UTC)

Ahom page

Please go ahead and make your proposed changes to the status of Ahom. And thanks for your help. Chaipau 10:36, 7 May 2006 (UTC)

About Holy Blood Holy Grail

Just to make sure... Have my reverts on HBHG been 'correct'? I want to assume as much good faith as possible, but the other party (or parties) don't seem to be willing to discuss their changes. I'm at a little bit of a loss as to what to do if this continues, and just want to make sure I'm not just being biased. Cheers, KalevTait 16:37, 11 May 2006 (UTC)

I support your reverts. --Loremaster 17:26, 11 May 2006 (UTC)

The Mahabharat

Hi,

Yes, the process is essentially that: copying from sacred-texts.com and adding proper formatting. Yann 08:12, 22 May 2006 (UTC)

Wiki-linking from quotes discussion

Hi there. I've added a comment to the discussion here about Wiki-linking from quotes. As someone who has posted to this discussion, I'd appreciate any comments you might have. Thanks. Carcharoth 19:05, 6 June 2006 (UTC)

message

I'm sending this to all the wikiproject:mammals participants. There's a naming guideline up for discussion on the talk page, and the more people get involved the more valid any consensus drawn. Ironholds 19:14, 30 June 2008 (UTC)

Announcement

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Proposed deletion of Peter Meehan (author)

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