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You should know that because you recreated your old account, none of the edits are going to transfer to the new username. Just wanted to let you know. ···日本穣^? · 投稿 · Talk to Nihonjoe 06:01, 22 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

It sort of feels like I should give you a housewarming gift since you moved! ^^ --Kraftlos (Talk | Contrib) 11:56, 22 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Noticed the name change. Continue to have fun editing --KrebMarkt 13:54, 22 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks...cookies always rock :-) -- AnmaFinotera (talk · contribs) 15:39, 22 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

What?? I did NOT recreate the old account?? As soon as you said the change was done, I logged out and have used this name exclusively. I need those edits to transfer!! *cry* Does this mean now that both my old account and my new one are messed up and unrepairable? -- AnmaFinotera (talk · contribs) 15:26, 22 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Why would you think none of the edits are going to transferred Nihon? They may be lagging behind, or it may have stalled out, but they will/can be transferred. (They are attached to the userrid of the new username... A dev may need to do it if it stalled, same thing happened to me on my rename). –xeno^talk 15:36, 22 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Because it appeared that the account had been recreated. The logs showed it was autocreated yesterday, which means she was logged in on another site with her old universal login, then visited a page here, thereby autocreating the account again. When I checked, all the old edits still appeared to be attached to the old account, but it appears they have been transferred now. Perhaps it was a browser cache thing (though I forced a reload and it didn't change at the time). ···日本穣^? · 投稿 · Talk to Nihonjoe 18:37, 22 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

It seems there are still many edits under each: new, old. ···日本穣^? · 投稿 · Talk to Nihonjoe 18:52, 22 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

It's like a long train, the engine and a few of the cars are at the station, the rest will follow (or not, in which a dev will need to shovel some coal in the burner). –xeno^talk 18:56, 22 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Weird...I went and did the requests on a few wikis where I had edits, but I did those all at the same time. This was the first to fulfill it though and I logged out right after seeing the message about it, which logged me out of all the others too. It does seem to have possibly stalled, though, after moving the June 09 ones over. :-( -- AnmaFinotera (talk · contribs) 20:26, 22 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

It's doubtful you did anything to cause this. It is no doubt bugzilla:17313. If the rest of the edits don't catch up within 2 weeks, you should try looking for a dev. –xeno^talk 20:28, 22 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Good to know. To my amusement, no more edits have transferred yet...but my block log did (which really will confuse anyone who sees the blocks from 08 with no edits LOL) -- AnmaFinotera (talk · contribs) 04:58, 23 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Looks like some of the 07 edits have moved, but that's about it. Just over 1k so far... :-( I thought maybe my being off-wiki might help. -- AnmaFinotera (talk · contribs) 06:23, 26 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

You had me rather confused there for a while... and it seems like the edits started to transfer:) G.A.S ^talk 16:47, 22 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Congrats on the rename, don't lose too much hair/sleep/etc. over the (hopefully temporarily) misplaced edits... =) --Dinoguy1000 (talk · contribs) as 67.58.229.153 (talk) 05:06, 23 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I have more edits than you. :-P I liked your old name better, but you gotta do what you gotta do (I've been in the same situation before). Hope it gets better. Mike Allen 05:46, 23 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Disagree, new username is much better, plus you will have a lot fewer people mistaking your gender. 98.82.23.93 (talk) 18:55, 23 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks :-) -- AnmaFinotera (talk · contribs) 13:58, 28 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Just to keep this here....emailed a developer since it seems like it really isn't moving anymore or is doing so in a very random fashion with no seeming rhyme or reason.... -- AnmaFinotera (talk · contribs) 15:49, 30 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

VG reviews template follow up

Just following up on a past discussion. {{VG reviews}} has undergone some changes recently, and the documentation has been expanded. Not all the changes originally discussed were implemented. But the template is a little leaner, and the documentation is much stronger and more in-line with the practices of the VG project.

If you'd like to make some suggestions and comments, please feel free to do so at the latest thread at the project talk page. (Guyinblack25 ^talk 15:17, 28 April 2010 (UTC))[reply]

Proposed article deletions

Hi there. Despite creating the articles 2010 Biobio earthquakes and 2010 Andaman Islands earthquake myself, I now agree with you that they are non-notable. Like many other Wikipedia editors, I got carried away with earthquakes after Chile and Haiti. However, more recently I saw the light and realised all these earthquake articles were getting a bit silly. On the AfD talk page, I have made a few suggestions of my own, if you want to check this out. Justmeagain83 (talk) 03:58, 29 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Wolf: A Journey Home FAC

Hey. Like the new username. Anyway, I spotted your comments at the above FAC in reply to Charles; do you think it might be worth toning down your rebuttal a bit? He's a decent reviewer, and while seeing an "oppose" at FAC can be galling, he tends to lodge one even when the issues he's highlighted are few, or minor. And that's a perfectly valid choice; more often than not Charles strikes the oppose and ends up supporting when concerns have been tackled, or (and this is crucial) successfully rebutted by the nominator (I used to do this too). If you disagree with him, that's fine, but you're far more likely to convince him you're right with a slightly less combative approach. (Incidentally, I opened a discussion on the copied citations thing not long after I saw his comments, as I've seen the concern raised at a number of FACs recently). Have a good one, Steve ^T • C 14:23, 29 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

He's already replied so a bit too late to rephrase. I don't find much decent about his review at all. His oppose is, quite frankly, ridiculous as a whole. The few real issues he brought up are minor, and the others are just wrong headed (in his reply he has already admitted he is unfamiliar with the area of novel articles). And if his edit count didn't go so far back, I'd think he was User:ItsLassieTime trying to derail another FAC of mine as his oppose made no more sense then his/her last attempt to do just that. *sigh* Sorry, I'm really tired today and grumpy. I do appreciate you talking to him about the cite, and I copied it to the previous sentence to address the issue. I also added another source found at the last minute. Hopefully that will help some. -- AnmaFinotera (talk · contribs) 14:48, 29 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

User:174.3.123.220

I noticed your edit summary here - can you shed some light on this user for me? I'm having to spend a lot of time - too much - double-checking his edits most of which, to my mind, are pointless at best but quite often subtly corrosive. I've seen intimations of some past life but haven't figured out much beyond that. I'd like to figure out how to bring him / her to heel a bit. Thanks for any insights. JohnInDC (talk) 02:02, 30 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

He had a registered account, User:100110100, which was indef blocked in in May 2007 for long term issues with civility, edit warring, personal attacks, and even making death threats if anyone dared revert him.[1] He has apparently been ignoring that block since then, editing as various IPs in that range, for years and just continuing to do most of the same sorts of edits he was doing then at reference desk, to guidelines and policies, etc. User:Father Goose unblocked him in February 2010 after it was confirmed that one such IP was said user, claiming he was reformed. However, said use began seriously wikihounding me with both the IP and the named sock, actions which had started even before the unblock. He also ignored all requests that he properly identify himself when using both the IPs and named accounts in discussions, and eventually Father Goose reblocked the name, but thus far this guy has continued to be allowed to use the IP and he continues to randomly wikihound myself and others. Some of the long history can be read at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/IncidentArchive603#Wikihounding by User:174.3.110.108 And Questionable unblock of same (AKA user:100110100). Since then, Father Goose has refused to take any responsibility for his part in giving this editor the basic go ahead to continue socking all he likes, and, from the last I saw on his talk page, whill simply refuse to have anything to do with it at all.

Unfortunately, when 100110100 started wikihounding me, I was already being actively harrassed by two other users and I lost my cool, so people who already disliked me focused on my reaction instead of the fact that this guy was indef banned for, among many things, threatening to kill people, was unblocked by an admin without discussion, allowed to continue the same disruptive behavior, and despite the username being reindef blocked, continues to use IP socks with full knowledge of several admins to edit various policy pages, guidelines, and harass anyone who dares disagree with him. His most recent attack on me personally was to randomly file a false ANI which was unfortunately ignored after I pointed out he was just wikihounding again.[2] Basically, several admins have noted he is violating WP:SOCK, and even noting he is being disruptive, but they are all ignoring it. Other discussions you may find interesting reading:

Personally, I think he is a disturbed person and I find it appalling that any user who makes death threats and has that kind of history is allowed to continue to edit using IP socks. However, as no admin seems to be willing to actually start blocking these IP socks, I don't bother reporting to AIV like they should be, and I gave up an ANI though he is continuing to randomly stalk me even after renaming my account. -- AnmaFinotera (talk · contribs) 02:25, 30 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks. That's informative, and, well, a bit discouraging. This person's edits are, as I said, largely pointless but often he degrades the articles and I feel compelled to follow behind, cleaning up the silly stuff. But I may also be inviting a pile of trouble by complaining about him. Thanks again for the background. JohnInDC (talk) 10:49, 30 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

No problem and agreed. I think unfortunately nothing will be done unless more people complain, especially as he is indef blocked. It seems to me that if WP:SOCK and WP:BAN are going to be policies, and are being strongly enforced with other editors, that it should be enforced with this guy as well. While most of his edits are just pointless and, as noted, often degrading to an article and just his implementing his personal preferences, his continued incivility and harassment of other editors (per the reason he was blocked) is not acceptable. I see he has also started wikihounding you too (sorry, it is a sucky thing to have happen to an editor). And his continued socking while indef blocked and his use of changing IPs is against both policies. It seems to me that it is way past time admins either say "okay, you are unblocked (again), use your username and identify yourself when working as an IP) or start actually blocking this guy every time he shows up.-- AnmaFinotera (talk · contribs) 15:55, 30 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Hey Anma

Sorry I haven't dropped by yet since you switched user names. Hope all is well ... been busy fighting off a new Disney vandal, and no it ain't him. I've been keeping in touch with PMDrive, and I look forward to his return in the future. Take care! --McDoobAU93 (talk) 16:10, 30 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I wonder what it is with Disney that seems to bring out the vandal silliness :-P Glad to hear on PMDrive and look forward to his return too. :-) -- AnmaFinotera (talk · contribs) 16:18, 30 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

2010 Napa County earthquake

This should be now be nominated for deletion as the earthquake has now been confirmed by the USGS to be false. Justmeagain83 (talk) 00:28, 1 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Hi, it's zhang again

i was wondering if there was a way to report someone for ignoring someone? i mean if contact is necessary but the person refuses to talk. donald duck, who was previously zhang he, refuses to contact me in any way and i'm always reverting his edits or fixing some of the information but it ends up getting reverted. he refuses to talk, he either removesm y comment on his page or ignores it. what should i do? Plus, he takes me personally, he will not see my edits as fixing, rather than antagonizingBread Ninja (talk) 20:22, 1 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

There isn't much you can do other than try Dispute resolution like mediation or Wikipedia:Editor assistance. -- AnmaFinotera (talk · contribs) 21:01, 1 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

isn't there some kind of intervention of some sort?Bread Ninja (talk) 21:27, 1 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Uhm!

I think one of your little accomplishment things at the top of the page is broken. The one that I can only figure is for making List of Tokyo Mew Mew episodes featured only links to List of Tokyo Mew episodes~ Audiosmurf ^♪/♫ 21:35, 1 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

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 :There isn't much you can do other than try [[WP:DP|Dispute resolution]] like [[WP:MEDIATE|mediation]] or [[Wikipedia:Editor assistance]]. -- [[User:AnmaFinotera|<span style='font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; color:#5342FF'>AnmaFinotera</span>]]&nbsp;([[User talk:AnmaFinotera|talk]]&nbsp;'''·''' [[Special:Contributions/AnmaFinotera|contribs]]) 21:01, 1 May 2010 (UTC)
 ::isn't there some kind of intervention of some sort?[[User:Bread Ninja|Bread Ninja]] ([[User talk:Bread Ninja|talk]]) 21:27, 1 May 2010 (UTC)
+== Uhm! ==
+I think one of your little accomplishment things at the top of the page is broken.  The one that I can only figure is for making [[List of Tokyo Mew Mew episodes]] featured only links to [[List of Tokyo Mew episodes]]~ [[User: Audiosmurf|<b><font color="darkblue">Audiosmurf</font></b>]] [[User_Talk:Audiosmurf|<font color="#000000"><sup><small>'''♪'''</small></sup></font>]]/[[Special:Contributions/Audiosmurf|<font color="black"><small>'''♫'''</small></font>]] 21:35, 1 May 2010 (UTC)