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Hard Machine

Please don't nominate articles under A1 when they actually do have enough context to determine what they are about. It took me less than 60 seconds to Google for it and convert the page into a stub. In addition, it's poor form to nominate articles when they have existed less than 60 seconds themselves, if they have any potential of being converted into encyclopedic form. Use {{prod}} or AFD if you are unsure; Candidates for Speedy Deletion should only be for the most clearcut cases. Thanks. -- nae'blis 13:20, 24 August 2006 (UTC)

I was pretty sure they had no context when I saw them. (I don't have the minute it takes to Google the relevant articles - I'm on RC patrol and fall behind quickly). As for tagging articles for speedy deletion, I user Vandal Fighter and the edits scroll off the screen after less than 30s and it really isn't possible. MER-C 13:39, 24 August 2006 (UTC)

Don't panic - it's not necessary for you personally to cover everything that comes up on RC Patrol, I'm sure. If you take an extra sixty seconds, you'll save a) the original contributor (who we should assume good faith in) probably more than that amount of time in effort and hassle, and b) every other contributor who comes across that article to improve, delete, or expand it a little hassle in understanding what's going on. A1 is really specialized for when the article doesn't have any context to know what the person is talking about - a brand new, seconds-old article might have another edit in 2-5 minutes that would make everything clear, but this one at least gave the artist's name and genre right off the bat.

None of which is to say that I don't appreciate the work you do with RC Patrol (I'd never have the time for it, myself), but keep the big picture in mind. Thanks! -- nae'blis 20:31, 24 August 2006 (UTC)

N-butyl-cyanoacrylate

Looked like a legit medical glue to me. Okay if I unspeedied it to give it some time to develop? -- Samir धर्म 13:47, 24 August 2006 (UTC)

Fine, go ahead. Let's wait a day or so and if it's still in that sorry state, get rid of it. MER-C 13:52, 24 August 2006 (UTC)

152.163.100.6

Can't we just block him for a 3RR/edit war?--1568 07:43, 25 August 2006 (UTC)

No. It's AOL and needs to be rangeblocked. EddieSegoura edits from AOL, so it's most likely him. Damn. (Time for a long term abuse page?) MER-C 07:44, 25 August 2006 (UTC)

"Time for a long term abuse page?" I think so.--1568 07:55, 25 August 2006 (UTC)

Seems to have stopped for now--1568 07:57, 25 August 2006 (UTC)

As soon as this assault is over, I'll make one. It's not over - WP:AIV is the target. MER-C 07:57, 25 August 2006 (UTC)

I meant to the edits on User:Ex-admin 294. :) --1568 08:06, 25 August 2006 (UTC)

It's the same vandal. All the user accounts have been blocked indefinitely and the AOL IPs for 15 minutes. I'll start it here. MER-C 08:12, 25 August 2006 (UTC)

Well that didn’t last long. Let's hope he doesn’t find his new page.--1568 08:44, 25 August 2006 (UTC)

Half-hour range block should give us some breathing space - AIV is now empty and Devcon down from 1 to 3. Might work on it some more.MER-C 08:51, 25 August 2006 (UTC)

Congrats on the barnstar you deserve it! Keep up the good work.--1568 09:05, 25 August 2006 (UTC)

Thanks. The range block has just expired - gotta go! MER-C 09:16, 25 August 2006 (UTC)

User page sprotected

Hope it's okay. Let me know when you want it lifted -- Samir धर्म 08:26, 25 August 2006 (UTC)

Good job

To MER-C for fine vandal-fighting! -- Samir धर्म 08:51, 25 August 2006 (UTC)

Well deserved. -- Samir धर्म 08:51, 25 August 2006 (UTC)

Eddie seems to have gone now - it's been 7 minutes since the range block expired. Thanks for the barnstar and the timely sprotect. If he doesn't reappear by noon (utc), you can lift it. MER-C 09:23, 25 August 2006 (UTC)

Binary edit

Sorry about the edit. I'm new to Wikipedia and I intended to write an additional section about how text can be encoded in binary. As an example, I wanted to upload an image of the current Wikipedia page in binary. I must have hit the wrong key by mistake and then my computer froze up on me. It was not my intent to vandalize at all. Apologies for any misunderstanding. If you think that addition might be a worthwhile idea, let me know. Meantime, I'm going to figure out the ropes around here. Thanks! --Wikipop 13:30, 25 August 2006 (UTC)

A more appropriate place would be ASCII, however keep it to a couple of words or so. You might insert an example section that contains a table like this:

Characters	W	i	k	i	p	e	d	i	a	!
Hexadecimal	0x57	0x69	0x6B	0x69	0x70	0x65	0x64	0x69	0x61	0x21

Your computer probably spewed at the large amount of text added (220 kB). My browser lags when vandals add huge amounts of text to a page. Editing help is available here. (I've blanked your talk page - insertions of 100kB without edit summaries generally are vandalism). MER-C 13:42, 25 August 2006 (UTC)

Eddie

Your thoughts requested at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents#Dealing with EddieSegoura. —Bunchofgrapes (talk) 15:21, 25 August 2006 (UTC)

One a related note, would you consider deleting User:MER-C/Eddie Segoura? I think it is going to do more harm than good -- either piss him off or please him, neither of which is useful. —Bunchofgrapes (talk) 20:53, 25 August 2006 (UTC)

I've saved a copy to my hard disk and it's up for speedy deletion. MER-C 03:53, 26 August 2006 (UTC)

Thank you! I appreciate that. —Bunchofgrapes (talk) 03:58, 26 August 2006 (UTC)

By the way, do you think such pages should appear on countervandalism.org? MER-C 05:35, 26 August 2006 (UTC)

No opinion. —Bunchofgrapes (talk) 19:22, 26 August 2006 (UTC)

SPREAD Distribution

Hi there! I would appreciate your not nominating for deletion the "SPREAD Distribution" page. I am writing this small page because I have seen a small music theater in Chicago which has an impressive acoustic sound! (I'm a musician myself), and I was told the acoustics had been designed by this small company in Spain that specialises in this field. I then discovered that there is a whole concept behind the acoustics of rooms, theaters and halls, and this company has been very friendly letting me learn the basics, which I'm now including on Wikipedia for other people who are interested in the same as me. I am also an architect and I have seen software they have created to help us architects make better-sounding buildings and to make them sustainable ecologically. Anyway... If you'd like to ask me any other questions, or you can even try contacting them to see how they reply to you. They are very friendly. I simply think it's fair to mention a company that makes software for architects and who seem to be admired in Acoustic circles... Thank you!

Alex Himly —Preceding unsigned comment added by Alexhimly (talk • contribs)

You can attempt to save it by voicing your opinion in the deletion debate over here. We have guidelines on what articles should be in Wikipedia and you'll see them as they get mentioned in the deletion debate. MER-C 06:59, 26 August 2006 (UTC)

reversion on my discussion

I am friends with the person who you reverted the edit of my userpage, please dont give her any demerits or whatever for the changes she made to my userpage. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Crd721 (talk • contribs)

But how can I tell? Such userpage edits are suspicious without an appropriate edit summary. I've reverted myself, please remind your friend to use edit summaries. MER-C 08:45, 26 August 2006 (UTC)

Thanks

For getting the vandalism on my user page. You're a star! Natgoo 10:40, 26 August 2006 (UTC)

You're welcome. MER-C 11:01, 26 August 2006 (UTC)

RFA thanks

Thanks so much for your support on my RFA, which closed successfully this morning with a result of (64/3/3). I will be stepping lightly at first trying to make sure I don't mess up too badly using the tools. Any further advice/guidance will be gratefully accepted. I hope I will live up to your trust! NawlinWiki 11:13, 26 August 2006 (UTC) talk contribs Glad to be of help - AOL vandalism has been coming thick and fast lately. MER-C 11:17, 26 August 2006 (UTC)

countervandalism.org

What is that? I tried the website and it does not respond. Anomo 15:26, 26 August 2006 (UTC)

It's Essjay's wiki on vandalism, which serves as a gateway for the numerous vandalism IRC channels around here. I just did a traceroute and am rather astounded at what I saw (apart from 40% packet loss at each router in the USA) - it's hosted on the same server as a porn site! MER-C 03:21, 27 August 2006 (UTC)

Porn site? Bomis? Anomo 03:55, 27 August 2006 (UTC)

Something more blatant than that: [1]. And from Perth, Australia, it is somewhat slow but responsive. And Essjay has been absent for two weeks(!)- I wonder how he is coping with the withdrawal symptoms. MER-C 05:38, 27 August 2006 (UTC)

Aluminium Flouride

Hi, I notice that you've tagged Aluminium fluoride for infobox conversion, but I can't figure out which infobox you want it to be converted to. It looks like it's up to date with the current chembox.

Thanks. RainbowCrane | Talk 18:53, 26 August 2006 (UTC)

I thought it was substed. Can't seem to find the original. MER-C 03:24, 27 August 2006 (UTC)

Reverting prod tag removal

With regard to this edit: That looked like a clear contesting of the proposed deletion. As such, the prod tag removal should not have been reverted. Regards, Awyong Jeffrey Mordecai Salleh 21:48, 26 August 2006 (UTC)

Jeff Campitelli

Not meeting WP:music is not reason enough to speedy delete. It should go through AfD. Justinmeister 01:26, 27 August 2006 (UTC)

I didn't think is asserted notability and would be deleted under CSD A7. MER-C 03:26, 27 August 2006 (UTC)

Pinball

Pinball - Subject to long and bloated. Wikis also says the page is too big. Want to remove "pinball firsts" and two smaller sections related to pinball machine video simulations, which should not be covered here. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 65.8.238.79 (talk • contribs)

It just so happened that that very page got hit by vandals a minute or two earlier and your large deletion was very suspicious. If you delete large amounts of content, provide an explanation in the edit summary. Thanks. MER-C 06:01, 27 August 2006 (UTC)

My talk page

Thank you :) He's blocked now ;) - GIen 06:23, 27 August 2006 (UTC)

You're welcome. MER-C 06:24, 27 August 2006 (UTC)

too quick

some of your reverts are too quick to be labeled as "vandalism" when it is clearly merely a browser "save page" malfunction. try waiting a minute or two, and let the person fix it themselves. easy enough to be kind enough to let them sort themselves out. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 152.163.100.8 (talk • contribs)

If I don't revert it, someone will in a similar time frame. The goal of RC patrol is to perform those reverts as quickly as possible (and 99% of the time it is vandalism). MER-C 06:48, 27 August 2006 (UTC)

whenever it's happened to me, 100% of the time it was being booted off AOL and/or a simple form submission error that caused the problems. same thing with being blocked -- it's never my articles but the shared IPs snags everyone else.  :( —Preceding unsigned comment added by 152.163.100.8 (talk • contribs)

I hate AOL too, but for a different reason. I suggest you change ISPs. MER-C 07:10, 27 August 2006 (UTC)

Ralph Woods

While I wholeheartedly agree with your speedy nomination for this article, the article for this one's lover, Pierre Fitch, was deleted on the same grounds (CSD A7); now there is quite the debate occurring at its deletion review. It might be better to just let this one play out as an AfD; but the call is yours. Quite frankly, I'm tired of having to stop and clean up this crap instead of working on real articles.—Chidom ^talk  07:28, 27 August 2006 (UTC)

I'll let this one play out. I too am sick of cleaning up after poor (spammy) articles that can be deleted on sight but can't be speedied and end up with a five day deletion debate. MER-C 07:50, 27 August 2006 (UTC)

Micro-vandals

Do you need more "troops" to revert the micro-vandalism, or have you guys got it under control? Daniel.Bryant 09:27, 27 August 2006 (UTC)

Yes I do - I'm barely keeping up. What I need is a range block! MER-C 09:30, 27 August 2006 (UTC)

I think it's over (or is the idiot behind it just filling up the tabs in the browser again?) MER-C 09:36, 27 August 2006 (UTC)

re: Thanks

And the same to you for reverting my talk. :) --james^(talk) 09:52, 27 August 2006 (UTC)

Bad news and good news regarding Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Veronica Castellana

First the bad news: I speedied Veronica Castellana as CSD A7, which was the correct thing to do; but I also speedied RN MARKET and LNC STAT, which was the wrong thing to do considering neither of them were biographies. For this I have to say I made a mistake.

Now the good news: As a result of my silly improper speedies, I've had more time to review the creator's contribs and have bundled all his other advertising creations in a even bigger, better, badder AfD. See Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Legal Nurse Investigator. Awyong Jeffrey Mordecai Salleh 10:01, 27 August 2006 (UTC)

Never mind - if I were an admin, I would have hit the delete button too. At least something good came of it. MER-C 10:16, 27 August 2006 (UTC)

Castlerea

Why did you remove my edit from Castlerea, It's not vandalism. Putting it back up again. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 194.165.173.221 (talk • contribs)

You truncated the article. And since Wikipedia has been undergoing non-stop vandalism for the last three hours, I don't really have time to explain in the edit summary. MER-C 10:03, 27 August 2006 (UTC)

Blue aadvark

Please provide a few IPs or articles vandalised abakharev 10:16, 27 August 2006 (UTC)

He vandalised my user page and created User:卍 卍 卍 JEWSDIDWTC.COM 卍 卍 卍 and User:JEWSDIDWTC is an invalid nick on Freenode.... Unfortunately it is the entire IP range, as the block log and checkuser evidence has it. MER-C 10:21, 27 August 2006 (UTC)

• Thanks, It is blocked by FireFox fortunately abakharev 10:55, 27 August 2006 (UTC)

revert on JW's pages

Hey ! I just retranscript from my talk's page his answer and comment this... Alithien 10:20, 27 August 2006 (UTC)

It's extremely suspicious when an IP masquerades as a real user. In fact, there is a vandal who did exactly that and got banned for it. MER-C 10:24, 27 August 2006 (UTC)

Speedy tagging

MER-C, please consider whether it's appropriate to tag articles for speedy when they are already being considered for deletion at AfD. The article I have in mind is Matthew Edge, the AfD for which already has one genuine participant advocating keeping the article. --bainer (talk) 10:31, 27 August 2006 (UTC)

Speedy delete is a valid course of action in AFD. If you vote speedy delete under CSD and don't tag the article, then the deletion isn't very speedy at all. MER-C 10:46, 27 August 2006 (UTC)

You're entitled to express your opinion on the AfD. But when someone has already expressed a legitimate argument for keeping the article (as opposed to, say, the author of a vanity article saying it should be kept) then you shouldn't tag it for speedy. Articles can't be speedily deleted once someone has made such an argument, and tagging will only get in the way of admins cleaning out CAT:CSD. --bainer (talk) 11:03, 27 August 2006 (UTC)

Fair enough. But pages that meet CSD should get deleted regardless of whether or not they are on AFD. MER-C 12:36, 27 August 2006 (UTC)

Conversation

Why won't you talk to me? -anon

Because you are being incivil, accusing me of various things I don't do and come here after I gave you a vandalism warning which strongly suggests you are a vandal. Goodbye. MER-C 13:28, 27 August 2006 (UTC)

I came here after you gave me a vandalism warning because you gave me a vandalism warning for no apparent reason. -anon

Vandal warnings

Please give users a {{test4}} warning (as well as test1-3) before reporting them to AIV. Thanks, Prodego ^talk 13:31, 27 August 2006 (UTC)

A {{bv}} serves exactly the same purpose as a test4. In fact, as the template says, I can go straight to AIV after the blatant vandal template has been placed. MER-C 13:37, 27 August 2006 (UTC)

Reply TO Your Message

I am sorry for that and it was because i am new to the wikipedia and am not that fluent with its tools (unaware of their usage would be the right word) I did nt want to do that .......but it was a mistake Hussain 13:43, 27 August 2006 (UTC)

OK then, I'll get rid of it. Thanks for informing me. MER-C 13:47, 27 August 2006 (UTC)

Doctorwho usernames?

Hiyas MER-C. I was just coming to see if I can get a clarification. AFAICT those two usernames, while annoying to look at, don't run afoul of WP:USERNAME...but I might just be missing the relevant guideline. Can you expand? Syrthiss 14:07, 27 August 2006 (UTC)

I think they might be sleeper sockpuppets of Blu Aardvark. He has a tendency to create such usernames en-masse, some of them are listed at User:MER-C/Blu Aardvark RFCU. And they imitate a well-known TV character. MER-C 14:10, 27 August 2006 (UTC)

Ah, good catch then. I'll whack em with an indefblock. You want to list them at the rfcu page or should I? Syrthiss 14:13, 27 August 2006 (UTC)

You can - it's most likely an open proxy since he was range blocked again today. It's past my bedtime. MER-C 14:18, 27 August 2006 (UTC)

Will do. Cheers. Syrthiss 14:21, 27 August 2006 (UTC)

Revert message

Hi, what are you using to roll back vandalism? I see other people using it, apparently some javascript tool...the thing that bothers me is the "Please do not compromise the integrity of pages" message. Who is responsible for creating that, and can it be changed? Adam Bishop 15:56, 27 August 2006 (UTC)

Oh, nevermind, I found it. Adam Bishop 17:49, 27 August 2006 (UTC)

Thanks

Thanks for keeping my user page clean. Apparently I can't even get sleep now without vandals prying at me. Cheers. Canadian-Bacon ^(contribs) 17:13, 27 August 2006 (UTC)

You're welcome. MER-C 02:45, 28 August 2006 (UTC)

Emma Cooper (AfD discussion)

Thanks for your hard work doing RC patrol. I bumped Emma Cooper from speedy to AFD: Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Emma Cooper. —Quarl ^(talk) 2006-08-27 22:52Z

What has happened to Wikipedia?

First I give a compliment on a friends talk page and am accused of vandalism> Next I rebut on his talk page and am accused of vandalism again (by my friend nonetheless [the power has gone to his head]). Now I try and clean my slate and experiment with manually removing the warnings (unaware that it is against regulations), and I am threatened with a block? This is utterly ridiculous. Wikipedia has degraded into a hierarchy where those who have too much time on their hands hold higher status than those who just don't see the fun in pouring over recent changes for hours on end. I just wanted to let you know that it is truely shameful that this has happened to Wikipedia. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.48.55.207 (talk • contribs)

Is this you? [2] First of all, removing vandal warnings is a big no-no. Second of all, it looks like the guy who reverted you in the first place thought it was an inappropriate comment. The standard procedure is that we determine what you did wrong, look at your talk page and apply the next level warning up. In your case, a third level warning was applied today, therefore I apply the fourth level warning, which threatens a block. I think you should take this up with the original reverter, but in a more appropriate way. MER-C 05:49, 28 August 2006 (UTC)

Yua Aida

MER-C, please go back and read WP:CSD criteria A7. As long as an article asserts notability it cannot be speedy deleted under this criteria. If the subject of the article is non-notable thyen please use Prod or [{WP:AFD|AfD]] instead. A good example is the article Yua Aida which clearly makes an assertion of notability through the Filmography section. This is not the first time I've asked you to be more careful in tagging for speedy deletion. You do great work here in Wikipedia, but the incorrect speedy tagging is something you need to work on. Thanks, Gwernol 06:01, 28 August 2006 (UTC)

I'll try to be a bit more careful next time, although I tend to have a deletionist leaning. MER-C 07:19, 28 August 2006 (UTC)

You may want to revert my revert

Hello. I just wanted to let you know that I reverted User:Matthew Carroll quite a ways back, to the last good edit I could find. You had recently tagged it for speedy deletion as the userpage of a nonexistent user, but I found him listed by Listuser. Granted, there are no contributions listed by that user, but it is possible that all of his edits were to pages that have since been deleted. If there is something I'm missing here, please feel free to revert my revert. SWAdair 07:55, 28 August 2006 (UTC)

I thought I didn't see anything in the logs and the user contributions link seemed to be missing, hence CSD U2. Oh well. MER-C 08:00, 28 August 2006 (UTC)

I had a heck of a time finding his entry in the logs. Listuser is so quirky it sometimes borders on counter-intuitive. You can go looking for something and miss it without ever knowing it. It took me a while to find him and I'm used to listuser's quirks. Trust me, I'm not surprised at all that you didn't find him. SWAdair 08:09, 28 August 2006 (UTC)

Comments by Blocked User

Comments by blocked user removed. As a blocked user, you are not entitled to edit Wikipedia.

Just a few clarifications, you are listed under Wikipedia:List of banned users as being under an indef ban by the community. I do admit your vandalism is funny, but it must be reverted netherless. I expect the userpages of your sockpuppets to disappear, have a look at this.

For the record, Template:Sockpuppet says "it is suspected that this user might be a sockpuppet or impersonator of" SOCKPUPPETEER.

I expect that page to be deleted or transwikied sometime in the next month. It seems that shafting vandal pages is the in thing around here. As for the rouge admins, there isn't a real argument for desysopping any of them except maybe Kelly Martin.

As for the sleeper accounts, I might have made a mistake on those. They looked very suspicious. Hence my suggestive language - "think" and "might".

The reason why I play whack-a-vandal is because vandals can be quite funny and brighten up my day. And the pages in the area of my interest are very static.

Thanks for sharing your thoughts - it's nice to see things from the other perspective. MER-C 09:52, 29 August 2006 (UTC)

While sometimes it is amusing, he has been harmful to other editors. Notice this http://aardvarksplumbline.blogspot.com/ and text search for "Blu Aardvark". Obviously because of Blu Aardvark people cannot make names with Aardvark in them. An innocent person made "The Aardvark" now is angry at wikipedia because of a vandal. Anomo 06:35, 30 August 2006 (UTC)

The AOL one is obviously The Airport Vandal based on the page it's an AOL vandal. Anomo 02:44, 30 August 2006 (UTC)

Per the policy on blocked editors editing Wikipedia, I've blanked his comments. alphaChimp ^laudare 04:13, 30 August 2006 (UTC)

Tagging of vandal userpages

There is a discussion at WP:AN that this is a bad idea per WP:DENY, and we're going to delete some of these pages (as it is not clear what good they do other than glorify vandals). Please join the discussion. thank you, Kusma (討論) 13:37, 29 August 2006 (UTC)

User being a vandal again

I found and reverted edits by [[3]] at this page: [4]. Just thought I should point this out, since I noticed the user has been a vandal on many occasions. RobJ1981 04:18, 30 August 2006 (UTC)

Thank you

Thank you for participating in my recent MfD nominations.--Andeh 12:45, 30 August 2006 (UTC)

Yeah, it's nice to see some spam deleted. Keep them coming! MER-C 12:48, 30 August 2006 (UTC)

Reading spam makes my heard hurt, think i'll search for more another time.--Andeh 12:52, 30 August 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for fixing my userpage, much appreciated. Ale_Jrb 13:51, 30 August 2006 (UTC)