User talk:Linuxbeak/Archive1

Hi

Uh, I have no idea if Im doing this right, but whatver.

I never noticed that you can edit everything on this site until now (I've actually almost never used Wikipedia). Am I really that bad of a person for thinking it's really, really funny that you can post/change whatever you want? I'd keep screwing with this site even if you could ban me for life, if I can get just one or two hours of editing in it would be worth it! But I guess the world would be a better place if we could all resist our innate urges to act like jerks. I'll quit screwing around. Hey, and lighten up a little alright?

Think ideological goals for a better world and a gift economy to benefit yourself through example and encouragement of innovation. ;-) -- Natalinasmpf 16:51, 13 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Sorry to cut in here, but you got to relalise, Linuxbeak is one of our light-handed admins ^_^ Project2501a 16:55, 13 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Yer welcome!

I aim to please! gkhan 23:14, Jun 15, 2005 (UTC)

Aw!

Aw, that is so nice of you! Thank you, Alex! Bishonen | talk 23:15, 15 Jun 2005 (UTC)

You're quite welcome!

I know you'll do great. Make me proud! :-) ~~Shiri — Talk~~ 00:03, Jun 16, 2005 (UTC)

And I add to that: no prob: I have complete faith in you. Happy editing and adminning, Antandrus (talk) 00:41, 16 Jun 2005 (UTC)

You're very welcome.

Thank you for the message on my talk page. It really made my day, since I've been having a crappy one. I have meningitis. Good luck with the adminship! :-) --WikiFan04^{ß 19:41, 15 Jun 2005 (CDT)}

Congrats, and no probs with the support. YOU WILL DO WELL. Grutness...wha? 01:49, 16 Jun 2005 (UTC)

You're welcome. Normally I would have passed on voting on your RfA because I didn't have enough first-hand knowledge of you. Some of the names already supporting you, though, made me want to know more. I went looking, and liked what I saw. I'm sure you'll make a fine admin. SWAdair | Talk 02:29, 16 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Congratulations, you'll be a fine admin. Andre (talk) 20:03, Jun 25, 2005 (UTC)

Thank you for your support

Hi! thank you for your your particularly kind words in support of my admin candidacy. I have now been promoted—I hope that you will always feel that I use the mop and bucket responsibly. JeremyA 05:15, 16 Jun 2005 (UTC)

You're welcome

Congratulations on becoming an administrator, and I had no hesitation in voting for you. You should be proud of your accomplishments on Wikipedia and in the large number of people who voted for you. — Knowledge Seeker দ 08:13, 16 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Quick question on edit counts

Where can I see the division of my edits among the different namespaces? (btw, congrats on your adminship) -- BD2412 ^talk 15:00, 2005 Jun 16 (UTC)

Request

Alex, how are you doing? Busy, right? I read your message and you know that we will always keep in touch. We are friends and if you ever need my advice on something, feel free to ask. I would like you to take a look at the article Guns N Roses, written by another friend of mine. He put in a lot of work into it and nominated it for featured article status. Check it out here: GUNS N ROSES. I know that he will appreciate your opinion. Take care, Tony the Marine

My Rfa

Thank you for supporting me! --Kbdank71 13:28, 17 Jun 2005 (UTC)

User:204.108.96.10

This user is at it again on Template:DaimlerChrysler. You warned him before... --SFoskett 20:23, Jun 17, 2005 (UTC)

RexJudicata block

This is Sannse's stalker. He emailed a novel to complain of your block. I'd just like to say: good work, and do please continue - David Gerard 14:03, 18 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Huh. Turns out it might be a different nutter. In which case, I say good work to Sannse on pissing off the most deserving ;-D - David Gerard 11:56, 19 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Thank you

Dear Linux: Sorry for not answering sooner. I was at home for two weeks, away from the world, recovering from my well documented addiction with pills. But the substitute I got was worse, it raised my blood pressure to 166 at one point and the whole thing was, well scary. Ive been in bed for most of this time. Im going to the doctor to tell him about what happened with this new medicine. I think I used it the way I wasnt supposed to if you know what I mean, but I didnt know of any dangers so I guess it was and wasnt my fault at the same time, that I turned by most successful detox into the most disastrous one as well...lol

That said, Im back at wikipedia (reason I wasnt here was that during this critical time, the least thing I needed were arguments with some other wikipedians so I stayed away from it all. It was my honor to nominate you. I had never nominated anyone else before except my dad a couple times, and I only nominate people who reutine quality works and time at our wikipedia to work for us. So, I guess I know an excellent contributor when I nominate them and I can say the list is really thin. You can consider yourself in a very, very exclusive group of excellent workers that we are glad to have amongst us!

Thank you and God bless you! Sincerely yours, Antonio Detox Expert Martin

MARMOT

I think we've got no choice but to send this thing to ArbCom. It's a cookie-cutter example of a ban, and I hate to have to give ArbCom a rather pointless case, but it's looking like this is what we are going to be forced to do, anyway. Your thoughts? Linuxbeak | Talk | Desk 18:27, Jun 20, 2005 (UTC)

Yeah that's what I said on the RFC page. No sense wasting any more time. The RFC just basically accomplished gathering the original evidence and his behavior there makes it even more clear. - Taxman ^Talk 18:33, Jun 20, 2005 (UTC)

Oops, sorry for the duplication, I didn't reallize you'd follow it so fast. And sorry, I won't be available for IRC at least until tomorrow night. - Taxman ^Talk 18:36, Jun 20, 2005 (UTC)

• For the record, 62.253.96.40 (talk · contribs) is obviously the same as MARMOT (talk · contribs), and their behavior appears similar to what is mentioned in the RFC on BeBop. Radiant_>|< 11:24, Jun 21, 2005 (UTC)

Sorry, I missed your message in the welter of new messages waiting for me. I was a little surprised to see myself as an initiator, but I'll add a short piece. Mel Etitis (Μελ Ετητης) 15:12, 21 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Sandbox

You can't block me for merely editing the sandbox. → JarlaxleArtemis 00:43, Jun 21, 2005 (UTC)

WikiCommons

Hi, perhaps you are not aware that somebody has registered commons:User:Linuxbeak on WikiCommons and have been vandalizing. You don't seem to be the kind of person who replaces CIA logos with pornography. The user name has been blocked for 24h, but should this be stretched to an indefinite block? Regards, Thuresson 18:36, 21 Jun 2005 (UTC)

More to come

The user you blocked, 210.1.58.13, used multiple IPs. He will be back. —Sean κ. + 17:31, 22 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Civility even when dealing with vandals

Linuxbeak, this edit was an innapropriate personal attack. Yeah, they may have deserved it, but in order to keep your hands clean, don't give in to that kind of thing in the future. Even calling a user a troll could be a personal attack, so avoid it. Instead just refer to innapropriate behavior, etc. Avoiding any type of abuse or response to trolling is by far the best way. It diffuses the issue instead of escalating it. Thanks - Taxman ^Talk 17:22, Jun 23, 2005 (UTC)

Problems

You asked once User_talk:Boothy443/Archive_3#Concerns i was willing to discuss some issues that i had, well if you are willing to be senceable and have an open mind i am willing to talk. --Boothy443 | comhrÚ 08:47, 24 Jun 2005 (UTC)

• You know what screw it, i quit, when you ppl want to get your act together, let me know, i am taking my work to another project. --195.39.170.102 09:52, 24 Jun 2005 (UTC) same as above since an abusive admin did me in

NOT ME!

I can't help it if AOL gives me this number -- 207.200.116.132. I have gotten blocked for the vandal's activities a number of time, but I assure you I am a responsible editor. Please release the block. WBardwin 20:04, 24 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Excuse me, Linuxbeak, since I see you haven't edited any today, I'm unblocking this IP, hope you don't mind the interference. Sorry, WBardwin, you're free to edit! Bishonen | talk 20:19, 24 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Chess, indeed!

I see that we have been pitted against eachother to do battle! Well, I say, game on! Id like to be white cos I blow the big one on chess, but if you feel that this is unsatisfactory we can flip a coin or something. gkhan 21:19, Jun 24, 2005 (UTC)

Oh, and as for the flipping, this method rules, but I've never gotten any chance to try it! :D gkhan 21:21, Jun 24, 2005 (UTC)

Much belated thanks.

Thanks for your support on my RFA! And, of course, congratulations on your own success! Sadly, a sudden illness and death in my family has taken up a lot of my time and attention since then, which is why I've been pretty erratic. I hope to get back to more active participation soon. Anyway, I wanted to formally say "thanks" and "congrats." Best, FreplySpang (talk) 23:02, 24 Jun 2005 (UTC)

MARMOT

I blocked his most recent IP (but only for an hour since it's an NTL proxy), and I plan to do the same for any others I encounter. — Dan | Talk 14:45, Jun 25, 2005 (UTC)

I blocked 62.253.96.0/24, the range in which all of his IPs have fallen so far, for twenty minutes - maybe he'll get bored in that time. — Dan | Talk 14:55, Jun 25, 2005 (UTC)

Fortunately, I've dealt with people like him before. :-)— Dan | Talk 14:58, Jun 25, 2005 (UTC)

These range blocks seem to have been effective, so I reinstated them for 24h, and I'll keep an eye on my e-mail in case they affect anyone else. — Dan | Talk 16:01, Jun 25, 2005 (UTC)

The blocks on NTL are affecting me, but NTL have several proxies to choose from so it's not difficult for me to work around, but then again it won't be that hard for MARMOT to work around either... Davelong 19:36, 25 Jun 2005 (UTC)

I've unblocked the NTL proxy 62.255.32.12 since having it blocked was stopping me editing. It really is an enormous problem the way that the block system is set up at the moment with ISPs that have transparent proxies. I sympathise with you trying to deal with a user who is a persistent vandal and who does not easily get bored. David Newton 23:50, 25 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Renomination

Thank you for removing your renomination, Linuxbeak. I know you intended it in all good faith, but I like to think you understand my point about the flaws in the process. -- Cecropia | explains it all ® 17:10, 25 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Deleted page

I was editing your page while it was deleted, and so unintentionally re-created it. I will re-delete it. Guettarda 17:15, 25 Jun 2005 (UTC)

WP:RFA

I have posted a response to your comment on my renomination. -- Francs2000 | Talk 17:21, 25 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Weyes

Do you think it would be useful to lock the vote page and provide a secondary "new votes here" page until this guy gtes bored? As is, no one can vote - if you tried to edit the page you'd almost certainly get an edit conflict. Might that be useful, or would Marmot just turn to the "new votes" page? Or does a bureaucrat have to approve that? Guettarda 18:19, 25 Jun 2005 (UTC)

looks like it has quieted down for a while anyway. What is NTL, btw? Guettarda 18:44, 25 Jun 2005 (UTC)

An Internet Service Provider? --cesarb 20:06, 25 Jun 2005 (UTC)

---

Well, then can you summarize it for me? All I know is it had something to do with his creation of the Admins can't vote proposal. To be blocked for that seems so wildly unacceptable it makes my head spin. But there may be more to it, of course, for all I know. Does the user make any uncontroversially good edits, or only stirs things up? Everyking 23:48, 25 Jun 2005 (UTC)

RFA page

The anon appears to be Maltesedog. The nom will go down anyway, why bother getting into a revert war? Just oppose them for not realising the difference between logged-in edits and anon edits. Guettarda 17:14, 26 Jun 2005 (UTC)

My RfA

Hello, I know this may be a bit late, but I just wanted to say thanks for your participation in my RfA! You (Talk) 18:05, Jun 26, 2005 (UTC)

Archiving MARMON entries

Hi, I left the old subsection on WP:AN/I because there were newer subsections for the same user, so it's more or less all part of the same incident. They will all go away when the newest subsection ages out (late this evening, provided no new posts have been made in it by then). Noel (talk) 20:18, 26 Jun 2005 (UTC)

PS: I don't usually check other User_talk: pages (so that I don't have to monitor a whole long list of User_Talk: pages - one for each person with whom I am having a "conversation"), so please leave any messages for me on my talk page (above); if you leave a message for me here I probably will not see it. I know not everyone uses this style (they would rather keep all the text of a thread in one place), but I simply can't monitor all the User_talk: pages I leave messages on. Thanks!

Let's Play Chess!

Wassup beak,

Let's get a game going. Click here to play.

Your move! R Lee E June 29, 2005 19:12 (UTC)

WP:VIP

Nice. I'm hopeful that the new format will make it a bit easier to organize vandalism reporting. -- Gnoitall 28 June 2005 21:17 (UTC)

Thanks

If you can block the user, that would be great. Did not appreciate his fictional account of my biography. Kennethtennyson 29 June 2005 00:59 (UTC)

Oh, well

I'm not really in an edit war with him. If you read what 172.196.101.9 wrote on his revision of kalaripayyattu, it isn't so much of an encyclopedic version of history as a personal attack against me. Regardless, what he wrote is without a doubt vandalism on my own page and on the kalaripayattu website. Kennethtennyson 29 June 2005 01:16 (UTC)

Wrote this on the discussion page of kalaripayattu: All you need to do is look at the first paragraph of encyclopedia brittanica online about kung fu and martial arts and their respective histories. The person reverting the article today is the same person: 172.196.101.9, 172.197.72.35, Martinmarginela who has been involved in vandalizing my site and the kalaripayattu website (placing fake biographies involving gay biographies). The current version was written by him/her and really isn't a history so much as a personal attack against me. Open up any encyclopedia on martial arts history, read encyclopedia brittanica's account of kung fu history on-line or martial arts history on-line, or read Zarilli's book online about kalaripayattu on his website. Everything that I have been writing is fact. Better yet, read Fire Star and her history of martial arts as she seems to be another administrator. This might sound crazy, but their are some elements out their that are extremely partisan in regards to Indian history. This is quite similar to the debate proposed by P.N. Oak on whether or not the Taj Mahal is a Hindu temple vs. a Muslim temple. It is similar in that there really is no debate and most scholars agree that the Taj Mahal is a Muslim temple and P.N. Oak has been discredited as a historian. Kennethtennyson 29 June 2005 01:49 (UTC)

Thanks

Thanks for the revert on my personal page. Personally, I think that the person who is haveing an edit war with me is the same person who is constantly pasting messages on my personal page with sprinklings of profanity. Kennethtennyson 30 June 2005 22:28 (UTC)

Just FYI

I writing this because you also go involved in Kalaripayattu article issues.

On 21 June 2005 I was following the edits of 68.14.62.73 (talk · contribs) and other proxy ip used by same and found an anti-india bias, user also started personal attacks on other wikipedians calling Hindutva, pro-BJP etc. (Later after my repeated request he wrote his name as Kennethtennyson (talk · contribs)).

Authors of Xiangqi, Buddhism, Sino-Indian War were able to resolve issues thru the talk pages. But sadly maintainers of Kalaripayattu did not, may be he did not have enough to prove his side.

AFIK, Regarding history of Kalaripayattu, Since years, even before BJP, I have heard the theory that Buddhist monks taken it to China. Also this was supported by a Japanese karate teacher I know. But about Bodhidharma's connection to Kalaripayattu is something I hear new.

-Bijee 1 July 2005 01:06 (UTC)

Oh, please. I don't know about that IP number, but in regards to those pages, I've been trying to correct the pro-Indian bias that was on these pages and revert the pro-Indian bias changes that you made, Bijee. Not only that, I've actually contributed to other websites that dealt with Indian history strictly and Chinese history strictly without having any problems as I am interested in both. I've only run into you on a few pages. Let's see... You stated on the "TEA" page that the Cantonese word "Cha" is an Indo aryan term when that is false. Then you stated that Chinese chess was unequivocally derived from Indian chess (chaturanga) because Indian chess is "older than christ himself." Let's see.... all I did on the Xiangqi(chinese chess) page was add the phrase " Chinese chess might have been derived from an earlier Chinese game Liubou along with a theory that Chinese chess could have come from Chaturanga (the indian chess game)". How is that Biased? Oh, on the buddhism page, I stated that Buddhism originated in Nepal (which is supported by many textbooks given the fact that the Buddha was born there.) Hmmm... have you actually read the discussion page for the Sino-Indian war and all of the edits that various Indian writers have added? Other editors before me have had a stroke just trying to convince the Indian writers on those pages that they should take a NPOV. Oh, and for kalaripayattu... let's see - the original article that I and other editors before me disagreed with basically stated... "kung fu and all martial arts in the world derived from kalaripayattu because bodhidharma brought it to China from India with Chan Buddhism." Don't you think that sounds like a stretch of the imagination? All I did was revert these articles to a NPOV that you call biased. Just because it doesn't support your POV doesn't mean it is biased, Bijee. Kennethtennyson 2 July 2005 03:02 (UTC)

Chess championship again

Hi, Linux, sorry to bother you but we still have to play a game for WP:ChsC. You up for it or what? gkhan July 1, 2005 10:20 (UTC)

I'll take white thank ~you very much. And, oh yeah, I'm gonna beat you silly. ~~

Friendly Chat

Hey, my friend, how you been? You know, my article "Military history of Puerto Rico" was featured in the main page on June 30, and let me tell you, the experience was bitter sweet. I've decided not to work on anymore featured articles and certianly do not wish to have one on the main page again. Let me tell you why. When you work on an article for featureded status, the scrutiny is great and you have people who help you or critize you, that really know what they're doing and want to help. Your article then becomes a great article and is elevated to featured status. Before your article can be featured on the main page, it must pass the scrutiny of Raul, who makes the final touches. Then comes the part that I learned not to like. The article appears on the main page and is constently vandalized or edited by people (not all) that have absolutely no knowledge of the written subject or want to post their point of views. You have to spent almost 24 hours watching your article and protecting it from vandals. Take a look at the "history" of the article on today's main page and you'll see what I mean. I believe that an article that has already been voted as a featured article has already passed the reliability test but, should be open to futhur improvements. However, if that article is going to be posted on the main page, it should receive a temporary 24 hour protection, since it will be read by countless people and is subject to innumerous acts of vandalism which may distract or discourage well intended readers. Let me know what you think about what I wrote. Your friend Tony the Marine 1 July 2005 19:29 (UTC)

Board vote

Is there any way I can vote for board members if I don't have 400 edits? --WikiFan04^{ß 22:21, 1 Jul 2005 (EDT)}

Revenge of the Sith Cast editting

12.144.5.2 has been changing the Cast list for Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith, adding credits that do not appear on the film. I have warned him/her, but he/she keeps adding nonsense credits as Luke Skywalker: unknown child.

Please monitor this unnecessary editting. Copperchair 2 July 2005 05:50 (UTC)

WikiChes et al up for vfd

Well, if you feel like saving them, I guess I should be notified that Wikipedia:Sandbox/Chess, Wikipedia:Sandbox/Game of Go, Wikipedia:Sandbox/Hangman and Wikipedia:Sandbox/Checkers are up for vfd. I feel strongly inclined to save them all, but I don't know about you. -- Natalinasmpf 4 July 2005 16:12 (UTC)

Civil air patrol

Would you have any objects to CAP being the main page featured article? →Raul654 July 5, 2005 01:18 (UTC)

Response from Fonzie Fan

As if Fonzie Fan was as serious as a heart attack before today. If someone wants to use the sandbox for editing experiments, I'll yield.

Content Dispute

What content dispute do you see in Eddie Murphy being on the List of Irish-Americans? Eddie Murphy is not an Irish-American, so he does not belong on a list of Irish-Americans. Unsigned comment by anonymous editor

Would it be acceptable if Lapsed or I or someone put on Eddie Murphy's page that he is an Irish-American?

Vandalism

Thanks for catching the vandal on my userpage - second time he's done that this week. Seems to dislike his edits being chased down, for some reason. Shimgray 6 July 2005 16:15 (UTC)

(Sorry about the duplication - been having edit problems) Whilst I've your attention, could I just check something? I can look directly at the edit history and see the content of the vandalism [1], but attempts to look at the diffs involved with the edit cause a grand collapse and a fatal-error message. Since you're almost certainly running a different setup to me, can you try loading either diff and see what happens? I suspect it's a bug caused by page sizes, but don't want to report it if it's just showing for me. Shimgray 6 July 2005 16:28 (UTC)

Aha. I was vaguely aware of CDVF, but didn't realise it had a feature to show the size of any given edit. Handy. I'm not an admin, but familiar with rollback - didn't know it was capable of being used even with a dead page, though. Thanks again. Shimgray 22:44, 10 July 2005 (UTC)

Wow! Democracy in action guys! I think reasoned agruement is out the window, as claims that the word was recently invented by a Linux nerd seems to take precidence over any logicial claim that it's an English term over 500 years old. Oh well...

Template:Impostor

What's the point of adding a category to it? --cesarb 6 July 2005 22:02 (UTC)

Arcade Infobox Notes/Ports

I've started a poll regarding the final decision (hopefully) of the Notes and Ports fields of Template:Infobox Arcade Game. Since you've been involved prior discussion on the WikiProject, your vote would be helpful. Poiuyt Man ^talk 7 July 2005 17:14 (UTC)

Cleanup Crew

How do I join?? Redwolf24 8 July 2005 08:14 (UTC)

congrats

I wanted to be the first to let you know that your featured article, Civil Air Patrol, will be featured on Wiki's main page on July 12, 2005. I am very happy for you and of your acomplishments. Tony the Marine 22:03, 10 July 2005 (UTC)

Congratulations. Ghost Freeman ^{T | E} / _C 15:53, 12 July 2005 (UTC)

Regarding WP:VIP

Question: It's becoming cluttered. What do we do? --Penwhale | Blast the Penwhale 13:00, 11 July 2005 (UTC)

Hope you don't mind, but I got stuck in and removed old entries. However, in hindsight, I'm worried I removed too much :-/. Perhaps some guidelines on clearing out old alerts should be written? Dan100 (Talk) 11:51, July 27, 2005 (UTC)

BTW, perhaps WP:VIP could be split into sub-pages (perhaps VIP/IPs and VIP/Registered users, for a start), to keep the page manageable while also being a relative long-term record. Dan100 (Talk) 12:01, July 27, 2005 (UTC)