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Administrator powers
editIf I have misused my magic powers in any way, this is the place to tell me.
Protection
editEvery page I protect is on the wrong version, of course, so to conserve valuable electrons, just leave a link to the page and a number from the list. Thanks.
If I accidentally protected a page to which I have made substantive edits, tell me here. I will unprotect it immediately.
Deletion
editDid I speedy-delete something that wasn't a candidate? Did I delete something for which there was no consensus to delete? Tell me here.
Blocking
editRollback
editDid I use the admin "rollback" feature on one of your edits without warning or explanation? Then I probably thought you were vandalizing, spamming, or otherwise editing in malice, and chances are good that you were: most of my rollbacks are of such edits. If you want to know why I reverted your edit, append your question to the end of this talk page.
rollback of my removal of personal attack
editI'd like to ask you to watch your "trigger finger", so to speak, when using the "rollback admin function. If you want to revert changes, please explain those reversions - save rollback for dealing with known vandalism.
That being said, commenting on the "stupid...stupidity" of a voter is nothing but inflammatory, and a personal attack. I made a judgement on the candidate, and voted at the time accordingly. I do not expect anyone to have to be called names for a vote they cast. Please do not support such behavior, and leave things be. If Blankfaze wants to discuss this with me, he can. -- Netoholic @ 18:17, 2004 Sep 27 (UTC)
- If Blankfaze wants you removing his comments, he can tell you that. Until then, don't arrogate that privilege to yourself before discussing the matter with him. —No-One Jones (m) 18:25, 27 Sep 2004 (UTC)
- This has been discussed with him - User talk:Blankfaze#Comments. Again, I ask you not to get involved, and not to support such behavior. -- Netoholic @ 18:32, 2004 Sep 27 (UTC)
- And his last word on it was, he doesn't want the comment removed—he even rolled back your last attempt to do so. Until I hear further from Blankfaze on the matter, I'll consider your removal of his comment to be deliberate misrepresentation—something to which I try to put a stop wherever and whenever I see it. —No-One Jones (m) 20:04, 27 Sep 2004 (UTC)
- If Blankfaze insults you, he looks bad. If you manipulate discussions in self-serving ways, you look worse; you also create extra trouble by revert-warring in order to keep your tampered-with version of the conversation in place.
CSD
editThanks for the advice. I hadn't read WP:SD. _R_ 10:17, 28 Sep 2004 (UTC)
VfD on User talk:HistoryBuffEr/Archived-Sermons
editI followed the deletion policy page as best I could by attempting to communicate once more with the user, and was rebuffed (along with another user) again. Even after this, I held back until the user posted a new round of uncivil remarks in the article space. I saw no other way forward. Please advise as to alternatives. Gazpacho 05:19, 29 Sep 2004 (UTC) (Talk)
- Try Wikipedia:Dispute resolution. HistoryBuffEr may be behaving badly but forcibly deleting his talk archive isn't going to solve anything. —No-One Jones (m) 14:41, 29 Sep 2004 (UTC)
Message from Haydes
editHey dude stop deleting my stuff ok this is uncalled for. Haydes (sig added)
- If you're talking about my reversion of your edit to Ambi's user page, I didn't delete it; I did, however, move it to the appropriate place. —No-One Jones (m) 12:27, 4 Oct 2004 (UTC)
Wikipedia:Votes for undeletion
editSee Wikipedia:Votes for undeletion. Anthony is challenging your right to make speedy deletions. RickK 00:16, Oct 5, 2004 (UTC)
- No I'm not. I'm only challenging a few speedy deletions which don't appear to fit the criteria for speedy deletions. anthony (see warning) 00:35, 5 Oct 2004 (UTC)
Dio thingy
editYou're right, it is Italian - but what does it mean? Deb 22:13, 6 Oct 2004 (UTC)
- I don't know—my Italian is fragmentary at best. It's apparently the national anthem of Corsica, though. —No-One Jones (m) 22:17, 6 Oct 2004 (UTC)
What is it you need help translating? I am Italian and I am semi-fluent.172.130.196.212 06:31, 11 Oct 2004 (UTC)
Dio vi Salve Regina. If you can translate it, bravo. —No-One Jones (m) 14:47, 11 Oct 2004 (UTC)
Thanks for the vandalism revert on Sodium chloride. I obviously need to work on my speed. I finished my revert only moments later than you did. Again thanks. [[User:MacGyverMagic|Mgm|(talk)]] 12:17, Oct 8, 2004 (UTC)
My references - prettify category link
editAbout my user page - thank you. ClockworkTroll 21:45, 12 Oct 2004 (UTC)
rollback
editAdmin nomination
editThanks for the vote in favour of my nomination! Incidently, I've shamelessly nicked your archive box for my talk page :-) - Ta bu shi da yu 02:18, 15 Oct 2004 (UTC)
9/11
editWhy did you protect the 9-11 page?--198 01:04, 16 Oct 2004 (UTC)
Thanks
editGlad you caught that boo-boo of mine on the copyvio page. I didn't know that was from a mirror site. Best, Lucky 6.9 02:06, 19 Oct 2004 (UTC)
Thanks
editThanks for taking care of the Henry Kissinger article. Stargoat 18:12, 19 Oct 2004 (UTC)
- You're welcome, and have you considered adding this latest incident to the evidence in Michael Snow's pending arbcom case? Something needs to be done about VV right quick-like. —No-One Jones (m) 21:30, 19 Oct 2004 (UTC)
Wikipedia:Most vandalized pages
editHi Mirv,
You might find Wikipedia:Most vandalized pages useful for your part in the rollback patrol (keep up the good work!). -- ChrisO 18:30, 19 Oct 2004 (UTC)
The "anger" header in History of the United States (1865-1918) was inserted by Sam Spade and not me, in case you weren't aware. He placed it above one of my postings to make it look like the heading was mine. 172 18:53, 19 Oct 2004 (UTC)
sex messages
editHello. What is your criteria for removing my messages? Thanks. --Cantus 00:43, Oct 20, 2004 (UTC)
- See Template talk:Sex. —No-One Jones (m) 00:51, 20 Oct 2004 (UTC)
Edit War
editHello Mirv, I tried to reason with Gzornenplatz on his talk page but he "won't play ball," so I'm forced to revert him.--198 01:11, 20 Oct 2004 (UTC)
Pol Pot and friends
editIt's been over a week, so I'm unprotecting Pol Pot. Cross your fingers. – Quadell (talk) (help)[[]] 02:11, Oct 20, 2004 (UTC)
Ditto with Arab-Israeli conflict. – Quadell (talk) (help)[[]] 16:48, Oct 23, 2004 (UTC)
September 11, 2001 attacks
editI have again requested that this page is unprotected. See Wikipedia:Requests for page protection for my reasoning. jguk 06:10, 20 Oct 2004 (UTC)
Thanks
editHey thanks for fixing my user page when it was vandalized. Apparently they don't like it when i revert their idiocy. Paulr 19:46, 20 Oct 2004 (UTC)
Thanks, I've done the same
editThanks, I've refactored some of your now out of place comments as well. Jayjg 18:06, 21 Oct 2004 (UTC)
hey mirv, I just wanted to say thanks for the edits you made to my page, I'm still new here and it was nice having a helping hand.... --GNU4Eva 01:30, 22 Oct 2004 (UTC)
- You're welcome. If you have any more questions or difficulties, feel free to ask me, or check out Wikipedia:Welcome, newcomers. —No-One Jones (m) 01:35, 22 Oct 2004 (UTC)
What is it about schema-root.org pages that you don't like?
editI'd be interested in an explanation of why you did these reverts: In each case you removed the external link to a schema-root.org page about the same subject. Every schema-root.org pages contains a current news feed for the page topic. It seemed to me that they contributed to Wikipedia by providing real value to anyone researching the particular subject.
04:31, 12 Oct 2004 (hist) m Indigenous peoples (Reverted edits by 66.31.89.49 to last version by Robbot) (top)
04:31, 12 Oct 2004 (hist) m Middle East (Reverted edits by 66.31.89.49 to last version by Mirv)
04:31, 12 Oct 2004 (hist) m Judith Miller (Reverted edits by 66.31.89.49 to last version by DMG413)
04:31, 12 Oct 2004 (hist) m Asia (Reverted edits by 66.31.89.49 to last version by BRG) (top)
04:31, 12 Oct 2004 (hist) m Abdul Aziz al-Hakim (Reverted edits by 66.31.89.49 to last version by D6) (top)
04:31, 12 Oct 2004 (hist) m Military (Reverted edits by 66.31.89.49 to last version by Mormegil)
04:31, 12 Oct 2004 (hist) m Corporation (Reverted edits by 66.31.89.49 to last version by Pedant17) (top)
04:31, 12 Oct 2004 (hist) m Private military contractor (Reverted edits by 66.31.89.49 to last version by Bontenbal) (top)
04:31, 12 Oct 2004 (hist) m TRW (Reverted edits by 66.31.89.49 to last version by 217.205.250.130) (top)
04:31, 12 Oct 2004 (hist) m BAE SYSTEMS (Reverted edits by 66.31.89.49 to last version by Rlandmann) (top)
04:31, 12 Oct 2004 (hist) m Boeing (Reverted edits by 66.31.89.49 to last version by JohnWest) (top)
04:31, 12 Oct 2004 (hist) m Carlyle Group (Reverted edits by 66.31.89.49 to last version by 12.74.28.247)
04:31, 12 Oct 2004 (hist) m DynCorp (Reverted edits by 66.31.89.49 to last version by Frighter) (top)
04:31, 12 Oct 2004 (hist) m Finmeccanica S.p.A. (Reverted edits by 66.31.89.49 to last version by N328KF) (top)
04:31, 12 Oct 2004 (hist) m General Dynamics (Reverted edits by 66.31.89.49 to last version by Itai) (top)
04:31, 12 Oct 2004 (hist) m A.M. Rosenthal (Reverted edits by 66.31.89.49 to last version by Gzornenplatz) (top)
04:31, 12 Oct 2004 (hist) m General Electric (Reverted edits by 66.31.89.49 to last version by Robbot)
04:31, 12 Oct 2004 (hist) m Northrop Grumman (Reverted edits by 66.31.89.49 to last version by Riddley) (top)
You did all of these within one minute? How could you have possibly taken time to look at the content of each link? John Tinker 19:00, 22 Oct 2004 (UTC)
- I did all of them within one minute because I am a sysop and have the ability to revert pages very quickly when I think it necessary. I thought it necessary because Wikipedia often attracts linkspammers trying to raise their site's Google rank, and when I see a user adding numerous links to an insignificant website, I suspect linkspamming. If that was not your intent, I apologize, but please be aware that Wikipedia is not a collection of external links or a vehicle for advertising and self-promotion. —No-One Jones (m) 19:15, 22 Oct 2004 (UTC)
- FWIW, I agree with the removal of the scheme-root links. Not an authoritative source, and I still think it is link-spamming and self-promotion. -- Netoholic @ 19:31, 2004 Oct 22 (UTC)
- Not an authorative source? Could you please explain what makes for an authorative source? Schema-root.org is largely about news headlines and research sources. John Tinker
- FWIW, I agree with the removal of the scheme-root links. Not an authoritative source, and I still think it is link-spamming and self-promotion. -- Netoholic @ 19:31, 2004 Oct 22 (UTC)
- Having reviewed your explanations and site carefully, I would not object if you were to link from a page or two. The site is aboveboard, non-profit, a useful directory, and links back to several Wikimedia projects—all of which convince me that your intentions are good and you're not here to spam. Try placing a link or two and see what kind of reaction you get. —No-One Jones (m) 20:15, 22 Oct 2004 (UTC)
- Ok, I will do that. And thank you for your thoughtful reply. John Tinker
Protection of Jesus
editWhy'd you protect the page? It's just one guy who is moving it and a few of us reverting him. Andre (talk) 16:46, Oct 23, 2004 (UTC)
Rex IP
editAh, OK. Thanks. :) [[User:Neutrality|Neutrality (hopefully!)]] 19:24, Oct 23, 2004 (UTC)
Thanks for your comments
editIt will take much more for him to learn his lesson though. The proof that he has learned his lesson will come when he makes the edits you suggested himself. I can't be expected to collate all their propaganda for them. Your suggestions are good ones though.--Alberuni 04:16, 24 Oct 2004 (UTC)
Mirv, FYI, I'm basing my votes on the following policies:
- A distinction is made between militants and non-combatants.
- A distinction is made between innocents targeted on purpose (e.g. bombing a civilian bus) vs. human shields vs. bystanders harmed by mistake in a police action aimed to prevent further terrorist attacks. In a court of law, a lot of difference is made between intentional victims of violence and those who died unintentionally. So should be in an encyclopedia.
- The information found in other WP articles is not duplicated.
- Hate-speech links are removed.
Sorry I didn't make it clear earlier. If you find these hypocritical, please let me know how I can correct/improve them. ←Humus sapiens←Talk 05:36, 24 Oct 2004 (UTC)
- All of these are reasons to fix articles, not delete them. —No-One Jones (m) 14:35, 24 Oct 2004 (UTC)
- I'd love to believe it after I see at least one of the articles in question fixed. Please let me know. ←Humus sapiens←Talk 08:21, 1 Nov 2004 (UTC)
Insertion of opinions from Likudnik propaganda sites?
edit"You've proved your point about Jayjg's insertions of opinions from Likudnik propaganda sites into articles on humanitarian organizations"? How so? If you mean NGO monitor, I didn't even find that site, other editors did, and Alberuni himself inserted at least one of those criticisms, not me. And why do you consider it a "Likudnik propaganda site"? Jayjg 07:06, 24 Oct 2004 (UTC)
- I consider it a Likudnik propaganda site because it's run by one of Sharon's cronies. If you weren't the one who spammed its opinions all over the articles on Palestinian NGOs, I apologize. —No-One Jones (m) 14:25, 24 Oct 2004 (UTC)
- Um, how do you define "Sharon's cronies"? Oh, and Gold no longer works for the Israeli government, he works for the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs, an independent, non-profit institute for policy research and education founded in 1976. Jayjg 20:49, 24 Oct 2004 (UTC)
- He was an adviser to Ariel Sharon for some time. Hence "crony". He was also Netanyahu's foreign affairs adviser. Hence "Likudnik". He may work for JCPA now, but his views have not changed. —No-One Jones (m) 20:59, 24 Oct 2004 (UTC)
- Hmm. Somehow I don't think the word "crony" passes the Wikipedia NPOV test, though I suspect there are some here who would argue it would. ;-) Regardless, your claims go much farther, specifically that he runs a "Likdunik propaganda site". The JCPA has been around a lot longer than Dore Gold, as has NGO Watch; on what basis do you support your claim, aside from the fact that the current president used to be a member of the Likud government? Donald Gregg is a former advisor to Pres. Bush Sr., and also his former Ambassador to Seoul. He's now the head of the Korea Society; does that mean that the Korea Society [1] is a "Republican propaganda site" run by "one of Bush's cronies"? Jayjg 21:34, 24 Oct 2004 (UTC)
- The agendas of the organizations with which Dore Gold is associated are readily apparent; does the Korea Society push a relentlessly pro-US agenda? And I wasn't suggesting using "crony" in the article, as I'm sure you understand. —No-One Jones (m) 21:40, 24 Oct 2004 (UTC)
- Well, to begin with there is a difference between a "pro-Israel" or "pro-US" agenda and a "Likudnik" or "Republican" agenda. And from what I can tell the Korea Society believes everything it does is in America's best interests; is that "a relentlessly pro-US agenda"? The agenda and focus of the JCPA is much broader than pushing a "pro-Israel" agenda, which you would note if you looked through its various publications and activities. And of course I understand that you wouldn't use the word "crony" in an article, as from what I've seen all of your edits are admirably NPOV. However, there are others in this debate who would not hesitate to use the word and defend it as simply "the truth". Regardless, I feel your characterization of NGO Monitor to be surprisingly POV, given your NPOV edits. On another note, I'm dismayed at your calling me a "hypocrite", when I'm pretty certain VfDs don't work in the way you described them; you still haven't responded there. Jayjg 21:53, 24 Oct 2004 (UTC)
- I consider it a Likudnik propaganda site because it's run by one of Sharon's cronies. If you weren't the one who spammed its opinions all over the articles on Palestinian NGOs, I apologize. —No-One Jones (m) 14:25, 24 Oct 2004 (UTC)
- Don't blame me for your incessant POV pushing. --Alberuni 07:09, 24 Oct 2004 (UTC)
- Of course not; rather, I blame you for your own incessant POV pushing. ;-) Jayjg 20:49, 24 Oct 2004 (UTC)
Thanks for fixing up 1982 Invasion of Lebanon; I must've edited across the name change. --style 11:59, 2004 Oct 24 (UTC)
User:Irate
editUser:Irate called me an idiot, would that be considered a personal attack and what if anything could you do about it?
--198 05:04, 25 Oct 2004 (UTC)
- The best advice I've heard about personal attacks on Wikipedia is this: Ignore them. Sticks and stones, etc. As to what I can do about it: I can wag my finger at him, but that's about it; I'm not allowed to do much more than that. —No-One Jones (m) 05:08, 25 Oct 2004 (UTC)
- Alright well I just told him nicely to stop and I think it might work.--198 05:11, 25 Oct 2004 (UTC)
Fort Edmonton
editHello. I see that you have edited the Fort Edmonton page to say that the picture was of a Hudson's Bay Company post near Fort Edmonton. Fort Edmonton was actually the name of the HBC fort. The city of Edmonton grew around this fort. I have reverted your edit, since it was inacurate. If you would like further details, I have also included a link on the page to the Fort Edmonton section of the Canadian Encyclopedia.
- Thanks for fixing that. I must have misunderstood my source. —No-One Jones (m) 05:28, 25 Oct 2004 (UTC)
- No problem. Your edit forced me to take a closer look at the article itself. I added the picture without spending too much time reading the article. I should have cleaned it up a bit when I added the picture. I expect that this would have been less confusing for you. -- JamesTeterenko 15:59, 25 Oct 2004 (UTC)
When I saw your change, I noticed that there was very little information about the history of the fort and it didn't even mention HBC (the article was mostly about the current Fort Edmonton Park). So, I have modified it a little bit to include some historical information. I'll probably clean it up some more when I have a bit of time to research it.
-- JamesTeterenko 05:27, 25 Oct 2004 (UTC)
Stamps
editUSPS stamp use policy is here: http://www.usps.com/communications/organization/noncommlicensing.htm. Stamps made after 1977 are copyrighted, but they encourage non-commercial and educational use--we're supposed to get permission, which we haven't, so it's a gray area, but in general, I've always felt it's an okay use of a U.S. government product. jengod 18:48, Oct 25, 2004 (UTC)
NO
editRickK blocked me illegally either serve the warrent or BAN ME!--···---··· 04:13, 27 Oct 2004 (UTC)
Maria Fidelis RC Convent
editWhy did you un-CSD Maria Fidelis RC Convent? It contains just one line of text saying it's in London - exactly the sort of scenario described in Wikipedia talk:Deletion policy/schools. DamienG 02:01, Oct 28, 2004 (UTC)
Collaboration project
editCould you consider voting for Partisans (Yugoslvia) as a collaboration project?AndyL 21:29, 29 Oct 2004 (UTC)
Feldspar comment
editFeldspar is ceaselessly reverting me without dialog at Dedham, Massachusetts please take note of that. 216.153.214.94 05:01, 31 Oct 2004 (UTC)
- If you have a dispute with Antaeus Feldspar over article content, try resolving it through normal means: the talk page, a request for comment, mediation, etc. Paying him back (if that's your intent) by deleting his comments just makes you look bad, and if you persist, will probably get you blocked. It's definitely not going to help create a better encyclopedia. —No-One Jones (m) 05:29, 31 Oct 2004 (UTC)
- 216.153.214.94, a.k.a. our old friend Rex071404, is reverting me without dialog at:
- Narbonic
- The Prisoner
- Mighty Jack
- and Johann Beringer. Note how on this one I fixed a category tag, and Rex unfixed it simply because it was a change that I made.
- He's also VfD'ed two articles purely because I happened to have worked on them and voted Keep on a third because I nominated the VfD: Wikipedia:Votes for deletion/Godzilla vs SpaceGodzilla, Wikipedia:Votes for deletion/Mothers against videogame addiction and violence, and Wikipedia:Votes for deletion/Dynamic-Animation. He also shows his colors when he repays all the patience SWAdair had with his antics by opposing SWAdair's adminship just so that he can get in a jab at me. The idea that he should be so blatantly showing bad faith with all these edits and I should be assuming good faith of his edits at Dedham, Massachusetts is laughable. -- Antaeus Feldspar 05:44, 31 Oct 2004 (UTC)
Read his talk page. He deletes my comments to him there. 216.153.214.94 05:35, 31 Oct 2004 (UTC)
- Has he done that anywhere else? Social conventions allow users a certain amount of latitude in handling their own talk pages; this includes deleting messages as they see fit. (I've explained this before, I think: [3], [4].) However, this freedom doesn't extend beyond one's own talk page; deleting comments from someone else's talk page is definitely not on. If he's done that, he should not have, but that's not an excuse for your misbehavior. —No-One Jones (m) 05:45, 31 Oct 2004 (UTC)
The issue of talk page deletion is not being tit-for-tatted. Rather, it's his repeated rv's at Dedham, Massachusetts. The talk page deletions are only mentioned to point out that Feldspar has forclosed all avenues of communications. 216.153.214.94 05:51, 31 Oct 2004 (UTC)
If ceaseless reverting (over a span of more than a month) without dialog counts as "abusing", then yes, he has. 216.153.214.94 06:07, 31 Oct 2004 (UTC)
- From what I can see you haven't used the article talk page in over a month either, so we have a pot-and-kettle situation here. Try offering a compromise that takes both of your concerns into account. Right now I don't see any difference between your behavior and his. —No-One Jones (m) 06:16, 31 Oct 2004 (UTC)
Then why are you not also admonishing him? 216.153.214.94 06:16, 31 Oct 2004 (UTC)
- Because he's not the one making mindless tit-for-tat reversions which are no better than vandalism. At least on Dedham, Massachusetts, he's given reasons for his edits, which is more than you can say for The Prisoner, Narbonic, Mighty Jack, or Johann Beringer. Right now your behavior in other articles is considerably worse than his, ergo I am trying to deal with you first. —No-One Jones (m) 06:20, 31 Oct 2004 (UTC)
Hi. "User:Neo-Comm" keeps on removing huge chunks of info on History of the United States (1988-present) while refusing to support this on talk. Someone needs to protect the page, but I cannot do so, having been the one reverting his changes. 172 06:04, 31 Oct 2004 (UTC)
Rex (in costume as 216)
editThanks for reverting Rex's change to my Talk page. When I saw you'd reverted something of his, I thought maybe you'd deleted some nastiness; I was prepared to thank you for your kind intentions but to say that I wanted to preserve all the comments made on my Talk page. Your actual revert was, of course, completely in keeping with that principle.
Here in New York City (and in Dedham), Halloween will be over in a couple hours. Maybe Rex will decide that costume time is over. JamesMLane 02:45, 1 Nov 2004 (UTC)