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Toolserver

If you are not already aware of it, I urge to join the m:Toolserver. Hats off to you for your vandalism fighting. --AllyUnion (talk) 04:54, 15 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Cleanup

- Thanks for your cleanup efforts with that new WoW account :-) --HappyCamper 15:44, 15 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Block showing user number

WHy do some IP blocks show a user number instead of a name? Rich Farmbrough 23:44, 15 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Stars

Well, I consider it worthwhile. We're talking about their notability at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/56 Aquilae. --Merovingian (t) (c) (e) 03:04, 16 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Precious

By the authority vested in me as, uhm, some random guy on the web, I hereby award you the **WikiMedal for Janitorial Services** for keeping the vandal bots at bay. MarkSweep✍ 07:07, 17 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Rogue Admin

CURPS - YOU ARE A ROUGE ADMIN AND SHOULD BE DESYSOPPED! PS - Keep up the good work →Raul654 09:50, 17 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]

It Looks Like You Beat Me To The Punch

I was going to block User:Bonefuck until 1 Jan 2754, but I guess "infinite" works just as well ;-) Karmafist 05:15, 18 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]

I am in love

...well no, but this blocking of vandalism is amazing.

Molotov (talk)
04:20, 19 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]

checkuser

A a supplement to expanded use of Checkuser (or alternative if it's vetoed by the powers-that-be), how about Wikipedia talk:Requests for adminship#.22Rip.22ping and ToSsing major .28Willy-style.29 vandals? -- Curps 05:40, 19 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks, but I've given up on all that. On that topic: since you already run a block bot, would you like to take over supporting the POPbot blocks? I've given up on popbot too, but it seems like a bit of a waste to just unblock them all again, so if you'd be willing to handle the questions and complaints or know someone who would be, that would be nice. --fvw * 22:22, 19 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Who are you?

Who are you and why did you put this edit on my personal, private scratch page? Rex071404 ^{216.153.214.94} 07:33, 20 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]

laffo, I can't wait to see you add User:Curpsbot-unicodify to your list of Liberal Cabalers--anon editor 00:29, 21 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Wacky username vandalism

Hey, is there anyway to simply block the IP or IP ranges responsible for those usernames? --Madchester 17:55, 22 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, but we can't tell you about it. (insert Defender of the Wiki barnstar here) for blocking all those supertroll accounts. Alphax ^τεχ 18:43, 22 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Unblock Me

Curps, can you please unblock me(User:Superm401 with IP User:68.80.134.151. See explanation at User talk:Superm401 and Wikipedia:Village pump (technical#Usernames with "$ + digit":. I posted at User talk:Superm401 using my own user name, so you can verify that this request is genuine. I was investigating your $-digit display bug, and you or your bot blocked me. :) 152.163.101.11 20:09, 22 October 2005 (UTC)(User:Superm401)[reply]

Sorry

Gah! I can't believe I did that. I'm sorry. :( -- My apologies.

When I pulled up the page history, I had two browsers open, one on your page, and one on Kurps. I guess I got confused and mistook it for a pagemove. It was only after I deleted the page and tried to move it back that I realized it wasn't the case. --HappyCamper 21:26, 22 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Wikipedia:Counter Vandalism Unit

Although I am on a "wiki-vacation", Ill make you an exeption. You have been given a few barnstars for fighting vandalism so far, that is of course less than the level of commendation you should recieve. You are doing one hell of a job in handling the apathy of vandals. Most recent supertroll idiocity is a shining example of your efforts.

I am here to notify you of a Wikipedia Counter Vandalism Unit which you may find useful. --Cool Cat ^Talk 16:00, 23 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Heck, that was fast... 01313 22:24, 23 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Protecting Schnorrer

Good timing, that! I have to leave soon for work... Cheers, --Fire Star 22:17, 24 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Please stop

so far, for most of the edits that i have made today, you have delete and gave some lame exuse. Instead of just delteing everything that i make, how about you edit it instead and make some corrections. You are deafeating the whole purpose of wikipedia if nobody can edit it. -- unsigned message by Jakewater (talk · contribs)

Well, you added your own birthday to July 21. You created 2990s for a stub article with zero content about a decade that won't happen for 1000 years... that article has now been deleted 13 times (although many of the previous creations months ago presumably weren't you). I also deleted Sam foran which you created at 21:20, 24 October 2005... its entire contents were 'Sam Foran is a poopie pie poop cake dukiesh yakish poop head cake cake yummy poop'. -- Curps 02:33, 25 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Please stop #2

Ok, first of all, that was my couisin's birthday, and he is actualy a very popular violinist. The Sam Foran article i did not create, that was probably my little brother, i will make sure that doesnt happen agian. The article i made about the Scopes trial, instead of totaly deleting what i wrote, you could have just edited for me and fixed the mistakes. What i am about to say is not to critize you, i am going to say this to help you in becoming a beter wikipedia user: Think about what you are doing before you do it, and also, instead of deleting everything, think of an alternitive.

You didn't write the article about the Scopes Trial, you simply added a single phrase. The phrase stated that the jury decided to charge Darrow with contempt, which I reverted with an explanation for the reason (I don't believe it's up to a jury to file charges of contempt of court, so I don't believe that was accurate or correct) [1]. "Totally deleting" a single phrase (with explanation) is a normal part of the editing process. -- Curps 01:43, 26 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Why Do You Keep Blocking My Legitimate Usernames

Hiya Crups. In the past 10 minutes you've permanently blocked two usernames I've created before I've had the chance to use them, Fascism Rules and I Am A Fan Of Nazism. You have not given legitimate reasons for the blocking of these. I did not intend to vandalize anything. Could you please offer an explanation of this behavior? I merely figured that if a neutral encyclopedia tolerates users with explicitly anti-fascist sentiments in their usernames, they should also tolerate users with explicitly pro-fascist sentiments in their usernames. Where does my logic fail? 200.168.39.90 05:06, 25 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]

See Wikipedia:Username regarding potentially offensive or inflammatory usernames. -- Curps 05:21, 25 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Now you've blocked my IP because I created the username The Fascΐst Kids Are Alright. This is a neutral encyclopedia. How is it that you can abide names like NazismIsntCool but not my choices? That doesn't seem fair at all. I've perused Wikipedia:Username and there is no way my usernames can be considered inappropriate if NazismIsntCool is appropriate. So it's OK to be one of kind of idealogue, but not another? Is that the message you're sending? Please refrain from blocking my further attempts to contribute to Wikipedia. 81.215.10.113 05:33, 25 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]

In principle, you could create "SocialismIsntCool" and that probably wouldn't be considered inflammatory per se, although it might be blocked if it was clearly intended as a spoof or attack on the existing user "NazismIsntCool". Your problem is, in general public opinion in the real world, espousing pro-Nazi or pro-fascist sentiment is considered inflammatory and disparaging such sentiments is not considered inflammatory, and the situation on Wikipedia simply reflects that. -- Curps 05:57, 25 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]

But if that's the case, why did you block "AntifascismIsBad"? That was clearly not intended as a spoof or an attack. I would have followed your suggestion exactly, but there is a difference between Socialism is not Antifascism. Anyway, I think tolerating one kind of rhetoric and quashing another in knee-jerk fashion is blatantly POV. 67.180.160.119 06:02, 25 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Username blocks are recorded in the block log, which is visible to all admins (and non-admins). If any other admin thinks the block is unwarranted, they could unblock. If that doesn't happen, well, draw your own conclusion. -- Curps 06:04, 25 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Don't give me that mealy-mouthed argument. You know as well as I do that few people monitor the block log for inappropriate blocks, and fewer still (if anyone) care enough to unblock people even when they were clearly unjustly banned. If you want to put it to forum-wide vote, that's another matter, but this is unilateral, biased, draconian action. Now you've blocked National Socialist. Have I ever given any indication to you that I might be a vandal? Absolutely not. I really wish you would stop this unbidden attempt to keep an individual whose point of view is different from yours from contributing to Wikipedia. 80.189.221.6 06:18, 25 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]

That's incorrect, quite a number of admins monitor the block log. And "National Socialist" is an inflammatory username as per Wikipedia:Username. If you wish to call a "forum-wide" vote to try to change existing practice, that's up to you. -- Curps 06:37, 25 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Fun

Why did you block my six other accounts, including User:fESTERING hEAD wOUND, after I wrote lengthy articles about each of my nine cats named "Fluffy"? Don't delete Fluffy (cat) (disambigtion) again! And letting the d*rn anti-head wound Mafia to run amok is POV. ALL YOUR MICES AR PWNS L33T AAAAARGH!!!!

PS: C, I wish I could be as amusing as some of your other pen pals. Keep up the good work. —Michael Z. 2005-10-25 05:34 Z

Please Explain

So you blocked AntifacsismIsBad prima facie (no pun intended), I see. Now this is ludicrous. You must explain how AntifascismIsBad is unacceptable but NazismIsntCool is. NazismIsntCool states an opposition to a controversial idealogy. AntifascismIsBad does, too. What's the difference? And don't use the "impersonation" argument, because it isn't. I really would like an explanation. 60.50.121.108 05:47, 25 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Ditto Fash-ism!. I demand a cessation of and an explanation for this hypocrisy. 67.180.160.119 05:58, 25 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]

See above. I'm not applying some personal policy, just general Wikipedia practice. If I hadn't blocked them, some other admin would have, fairly rapidly. -- Curps 06:02, 25 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]

You're not "applying some personal policy", huh? I find it highly bemusing that your talk page is rife with debates over the (so-called) "Yom Kippur War" and Nazist/Nazi. It's obvious you have a vested agenda against Nazi fascists, to which I must object. Anti-fascsist hate has been plaguing the civilized world for too long and I'd like it to stop. I think on a global neutral forum such as this, you must be open to people with viewpoints other than yours. 80.189.221.6 06:23, 25 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]

I don't think you actually read those discussions. For instance, the issue with "Nazist" is that it's not an English word. -- Curps 06:37, 25 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]

STOP THE HATE!!!!!!!!!!!

Please stop blocking my good-faith attempts to contribute to Wikipedia. In keeping with your consistent practice, you have blocked me before I even had a chance to make an edit. How is "The Far Right Is Far Out" offensive or inflammatory? What is wrong with you? Why do you interpret such harmless names as inflammatory remarks? Do you have some sort of complex? It's not like I tried calling myself I Hope Your Grandparents Were Gassed To Death In An Auschwitz Oven. 148.235.66.115 06:40, 25 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]

OK, please enlighten me: how do I call a forum-wide vote to call into question your dubious practices? 148.235.66.115 06:40, 25 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]

You could take a look at Wikipedia:Request for comments. -- Curps 06:46, 25 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Vandalism Bovinae

On the page Bovinae there is a vandalism I guess, have a look there, -jkb- 08:28, 25 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]

block

User:Bluemoose would like you to unblock him, see [2]. Sam Spade 18:47, 25 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]

The underlying IP is now unblocked. I didn't block him per se, I blocked the newly created User:Bluebot, because it doesn't seem to have been discussed at Wikipedia:Bots or its talk page, because we had the sock User:Blue Moon Cocktail Bar earlier today, and because of the trouble we had with spoof vandalbots like User:Uncle Ed's major work 'bot. He unblocked User:Bluebot himself, perhaps he could have gone ahead and unblocked the underlying IP as well. -- Curps 18:57, 25 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks, I know you didnt mean to block me, I tried to unblock the IP but I couldn't find any record of it being blocked, also it might be a good idea to enable an email so people can contact you if you block them by accident. p.s. I know the bot hadn't been discussed, but it also hadn't been used. thanks Martin 19:05, 25 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]

When you go to Special:Ipblocklist, you may need to scroll past the default 100 entries, eg: view 500 entries, by clicking in the "View (previous 100) (next 100) (20 | 50 | 100 | 250 | 500)." line. As for blocking an account before it's used, well, that's occasionally done intentionally, given the vandal silliness recently. For instance, two recent spoof Uncle G bots: User:Uncle G's NEW Major Work Bot and User:Uncle G's 2nd Major Work Bot. -- Curps 19:21, 25 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]

It's cool, you don't need to explain yourself. Good job on all those other blocks! thanks Martin 22:20, 25 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Impostor

Curps, when blocking a new incarnation of the Doppelganger vandal, please do not put "spoof of So-and-so" in the summary, and do not delete the user and talk pages. Place the {{impostor}} templates in both the user and talk pages, and please don't write "cloned spoof page" in the edit summary. Thanks. Don Diego ^(Talk) 19:55, 25 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]

OK, I'll use the impostor templates and the phrasing "impostor" instead of "spoof". -- Curps 22:39, 25 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]

RfC

I endorsed the anonymous guy's statement on the RfC. I find it a black hypocrisy to selectively target ideological usernames based on personal political preference. Peace And Love 22:10, 25 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Welcome to Wikipedia, and thanks for posting to my RfC and my talk page only 3 minutes and 8 minutes, respectively, after registering your account. I'd post a welcome message with useful links to your talk page, but you seem to already know your way around here. I'm glad you were able to pick a suitable non-inflammatory username. -- Curps 22:37, 25 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Redundant Unicode chart templates

I wonder if you would be OK if I tagged (or even all) some of these for deletion. I have been tweaking "Wikipedia:Naming conventions (Unicode) (draft)" which I think is pretty excellent, and in parallel I have noticed that there seem to be obsolete versions of each table template, specifying the actual font (see here for a full list). I don't think we actually need these now, so should we delete the redundant ones or REDIRECT? HTH HAND —Phil | Talk 15:46, 26 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Suggestion for your bot

Just noticed one thing that could possibly be refined in your bot. See this [3] edit. It changed [[Brandenburg_%28disambiguation%29|Brandenburg (disambiguation)]] into [[Brandenburg (disambiguation)|Brandenburg (disambiguation)]]. Would have made more sense if it just changed it to [[Brandenburg (disambiguation)]]. chowells 18:14, 26 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Actually, it was already changed to do that. That was one of the earlier edits. -- Curps 18:29, 26 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Block of WorldTraveller

I use wikipedia both at home and at school, and my home IP has been banned. I'm writing this while on the school computers. Apparently you have blocked someone named "Worldtraveller" and because of this my home IP has been blocked. I don't know why this is, but please fix this. --Hurricane Angel 19:43, 27 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]

01 ! Reverts

Hi Curps, thanks for reverting those pages that 01 ! moved today. It was funny, the moment I noticed he was vandalizing pages, I added a note to his page. Apparently I wasn't the only one -- two other people also warned him at the same time! Anways... you saved me some trouble fixing some pages :). --mdd4696 23:15, 27 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Block of Francs2000

Hi, just to let you know that the doppelganger was created by me, to prevent someone else from doing it. I just had to unblock my own IP. -- Francs 2000 11:12, 28 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Block

Mostly just to be safe. I've seen some strange reports of IP's that got double blocked actually being able to edit, so -- one block is enough, I noticed that you'd already blocked so I figured I'd just lift it to be on the safe side. · Katefan0^(scribble) 19:26, 28 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]

BTW, since those are all anagrams of your name, have you considered just preemptively blocking any other strange anagrams of your name? (Oh, I also blocked Skrof.) Must say your block script is impressive. · Katefan0^(scribble) 19:27, 28 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Ah, well that quite changes things doesn't it! I hadn't realized that. The pertinent bit here being as long as the two blocks are of equal length. Learn something new every day. Thanks. I'll re-block if you haven't already. · Katefan0^(scribble) 19:33, 28 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]

I agree, particularly since the MO seems to be to make one edit, then switch accounts and make another edit. · Katefan0^(scribble) 19:36, 28 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]

You've got some "admirers"

Hey Curps, there are some dopplegangers no doubt itching to make trouble for you, they popped up at around 19:36, 29 October 2005. Just thought i'd let you know, I blocked three. Karmafist 21:25, 29 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]

New users

If you're around you had better check the new user log. Time to get the block bot running again I think. the wub "?!" 22:03, 29 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]

article moves

Thank you for adding User:Reader72s crap to Wikipedia again. -- Mkill 22:57, 29 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]

I merely reverted your improper page moves. Articles that need to be improved should be edited in place, not "kidnapped" into your user space, especially since there are many other editors who have edited these articles. -- Curps 23:07, 29 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Ok, I put them on AfD. There are too many nice people on Wikipedia with a too high crap tolerance. Now their time is wasted further. By the way, the articles are not bad quality translations from Japanese, the author is a native Spanish speaker. At least research into the history of some bad articles before posing as Wikipedia police. -- Mkill 23:20, 29 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Edit articles in place or nominate for AfD. Thanks for your cooperation. -- Curps 00:41, 30 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Thank You

Curps, Thank you for your help with the article I began (Klooga concentration camp). I hadn't been able redirect the page from the typo "Klooga concentraion camp". I greatly appreciate your promptness and helpfulness! ExRat 06:25, 30 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Vandalbots and such

Hey Curps! I blocked a handfull of possible vandalbots just today, and I was wondering if they would have been caught by the algorithm that you are using for blocking them? If you get a chance, could you take a look at my block log? Here's my block log for your convenience: [4]. Thanks for your help! --HappyCamper 14:57, 30 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]

thank you!

Thanks for blocking the two vandal accounts that were also impersonating me. --Ixfd64 22:02, 30 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]

You might want to fix the superfluous & in the Goleta Slough article

You might want to check the article carefully for the superfluous ampersand, which was reintroduced when you fixed the problem I caused by my attempt to conform to the ISO 8859-1 Character standard.—GraemeMcRae^talk 22:49, 30 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Much better. Thanks.—GraemeMcRae^talk 23:01, 30 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]

POPBot

You may want to check out the history of Mammal. A vandal using open proxies, including ones that were previously indef blocked according to the evidence from the POPBot, has been using these IPs. — BRIAN0918 • 2005-10-31 20:59

Noob123, Torchris

Well, the first one screams vandal, the 2nd one started with Tor, so maybe I went too far with that one. — BRIAN0918 • 2005-11-1 08:23

Doppelganger accounts

I was trying to follow the instructions at Wikipedia:Doppelganger to keep imposters from registering variations of my username, but after about the seventh account that I registered, either you or your bot apparently blocked the accounts permanently and blocked my IP address for 24 hours. (I'm using a different computer now.) Anyhow, I suppose it's OK that the doppelgangers are blocked, but there are several (at least 136) more variations of my username that vandals could potentially use to impersonate me. Do I need to register those as doppelgangers too? And, if so, how can I do it without having my IP blocked? --TantalumTelluride 18:34, 2 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]

delete history

Can you delete my user page's history and my talk page's history and my user contribution's history? I want to delete this account. thanks(Jessica Liao 03:11, 3 November 2005 (UTC))[reply]

OK for the first two, but there's not way to delete user contribution history (contributions to deleted pages go away, but contributions to still-existing pages remain). -- Curps 04:16, 3 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Innocent block

Hi, I would just like to let you know that a recent block you made on a user with the IP 202.156.6.54 resulted in me being blocked as well. I sent an email to Rob, who unblocked the IP for me as I could not contact you.

Hope you may help look into this. Different admins have blocked my IP range three times for the past 6 days, as has happened before.--Huaiwei 09:34, 3 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Removal of silsor's "RfA"

Curps, I think Kim Bruning's request was very reasonable, considering we seem closer to a consensus to keep this in WP:RfA than to remove/move it. This nomination runs out in just over four days. I think silsor, and most people interested in this discussion, deserve to have it left on the RfA page unless consensus changes or a steward decides otherwise. Owen× ☎ 16:15, 3 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]

It's not up to a steward to make a simple editing decision like this, that's reaching way, way too high in the hierarchy. KimBruning's edit summary of "don't remove this unless you are a steward" was entirely out of line. I wouldn't pursue an edit war over it, but I'm considering filing a "request to eat the delicious jelly-filled donuts on my kitchen table". -- Curps 16:39, 3 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Support! - I think you've earned those donuts. Let me summon a bureaucrat to promote us some coffee. Owen× ☎ 16:48, 3 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]

User:Wikipedia Signpost

Curps, thanks for blocking User:Wikipedia Signpost, but I've unblocked it now — I created it after Ral's suggestion (and I'm also involved with the Signpost), so it's legitimate. I was kind of wondering how long it would take to be blocked... I probably should have left a message from my account on there. Thanks anyways for your vigilance. :-) Flcelloguy | A note? | Desk | W_S 23:19, 3 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks again for blocking it, even though it was created by Flcelloguy. Ral315 (talk) 01:37, 4 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks

Thanks, that's the 4th imposter of me, and a person who has created dozens of sockpuppets. See the history of Iraqi insurgency. — BRIAN0918 • 2005-11-4 02:26

Also, anyone who is a new account and edits at Iraqi insurgency should be indef banned as a sockpuppet of the original person who was avoding 3RR and has since created dozens of sockpuppets. — BRIAN0918 • 2005-11-4 03:07
- I would have rather kept it unprotected so at least the person doesnt vandalize another page instead, one that we might not all notice. — BRIAN0918 • 2005-11-4 03:19

Wikipedia sandwich

This user contacted me via e-mail, asking me to unblock them. Your message when blocking was "please contact an administrator for verification purposes, as described on this page". I presumed the primary reason for blocking them was their potentially confusing username? -- user:zanimum

Tag team terror

Nice work with willy earlier today. --Cool Cat ^Talk 17:34, 4 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Urgent vandal

Diacrit (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · nuke contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log) (blocked) - persistent user who creates numerous user names to remove Template:Foreignchar from various articles. Created user names include: User:Jeaijij, User:Agraman, User:Oagafauou, User:Qesecaue, User:Uefot, User:Huaelo, User:Bifo, User:Timoa, User:Feoouubiao, User:Eooaqinol, User:Xeuuces, and that's only ones I have caught on recent changes page. Most of them have only 1 edit. And the list keeps growing every second! Just look at new user log. Renata3 22:29, 4 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]

I see you reverting this vandal today. Please see the sockpuppet list from yesterday at User_talk:Who#On-going_vandalism. And as you know, there are much more today, like user:-Chippy-. Is there a possibility to block the IP? Renata3 12:11, 5 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]

I see it's still around and you are still blocking & reverting it. Thank YOU. I have read your upset thoughts on notice board... Well, I cannot say much. Just wish you strength and persistance. Prove them all wrong! Don't let them brake you :) Renata3 05:59, 7 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]

(Firefly episode)

You only use extra modifiers when ambiguity is present in the first modifier. Things like Serenity (Firefly episode) or Ariel (Firefly episode) get this treatment, because there are other things with the same name in Firefly. Safe (Firefly) doesn't, because there's no ambiguity within Firefly. Our Mrs. Reynolds is not the name of anything else, so it gets no parenthesis. Why decrease memory and title aesthetic when it is not necessary? --Apostrophe 01:39, 5 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]

I sincerely doubt that. Personally, I'd prefer title aesthetic over the hypothetical and easily-fixable mistake of linking to the wrong article. --Apostrophe 01:54, 5 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Impersonator alert

I just saw Friday blocked a user called User:Pablo Agosto for one hour for vandalism. That Pablo Agosto is spanich for User:Paul August. I told Friday about this but looks like she logged out. Asking you instead for the permanent block. Thanks --JAranda | watz sup 04:45, 5 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Could u unblock the Ip number that was with User:ARANDA56 thats a Doppelganger account I created and now wont let me edit. Thanks --JAranda | watz sup 18:07, 5 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Re: Jaranda and Arando56 I created those as dogglegaggers to avoid impersonations which I know many people do. Thanks --JAranda | watz sup 20:08, 5 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Doppelganger blocked

User:Fantastic Door on Wheels is NOT a Willy on Wheels sockpuppet, and is my doppelganger account - see user page for User:Fantastic Door on Wheels. Please unblock it if you can. Thanks. --Fantastic Door (talk) 13:57, 5 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]

We need more information. -- Curps 19:16, 5 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Which you have now provided [5]. -- Curps 19:47, 5 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]

82.42.151.164

Very interesting indeed. I'm curious to know what DG has to say. Sometimes WP:AGF collides with common sense. Antandrus (talk) 18:42, 5 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]

See [6] -- Curps 19:47, 5 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]

LOL. I wonder if I'll have one of those "I'm so innocent it was my brother using my keyboard while I was on the phone" e-mails now. Antandrus (talk) 19:49, 5 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Blocked

Could you look into 213.42.2.21 thru .29 being blocked and see if I my account can be allowed to edit. About half-an-hour to do an edit. Why no e-mail? Marskell 18:51, 5 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]

9 out of 10 at the moment:

You have attempted to edit a page, either by clicking the "edit this page" tab or by following a red link.

Your IP address is 213.42.2.26. Please include this address, along with your username, in any queries you make.

Your user name or IP address has been blocked by Curps.

The reason given is: Autoblocked because your IP address has been recently used by "Fuckjapan". The reason given for Fuckjapan's block is: "user...".

You can email Curps or one of the other administrators to discuss the block. You may also edit your user talk page if you wish. If you believe that our blocking policy was violated, you may discuss the block publicly on the WikiEN-l mailing list. Note that you may not use the "email this user" feature unless you have a Wikipedia account and a valid email address registered in your user preferences.

If you would like to know when the block will expire, please see the block list.

If you need to see the wiki text of an article, you may wish to use the Export pages feature.

Marskell 19:04, 5 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Or just hope it goes away. It sucks. Like rain--sometimes it's poring (trying to edit is useless) and sometimes you get a brief window where nothing is falling (right now, apparently). My ISP won't do shit having contacted them before. I've had the problem for months, only particularly impossible to edit the last two days. So it goes. I waste too much time here anyway. Marskell 22:24, 5 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Hmm

I noticed you blocked User:Piper- because their name resembles the 0-edit user User:Piper. Since you came to this conclusion, I thought I'd alert you of another account you should block: User:Tom-, as an impersonation of User:Tom. Thanks. --24.224.153.40 22:22, 5 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]

I've unblocked User:Piper-, thanks for pointing that out. -- Curps 23:24, 5 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]

85.97.139.130

Hi Curps, sorry about the jiggerypokery. 85.97.139.130 is User:Cool Cat but it seems his machine has been compromised. The unblock was a test. It should probably stay blocked until he reinstalls. silsor 22:27, 5 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]

He's running another test for which we'll unblock. --Tony Sidaway ^Talk 22:47, 5 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]

I don't know what the hell is going on, according to the etheral feed there is no one there, yet edits do happen. Maybe you have a suggestion? --Cool Cat ^Talk 08:53, 6 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Unicodify bot

Hi, is the code of your bot available? I would like to try it out on the Dutch wikipedia. Thanks, – gpvos (talk) 23:44, 5 November 2005 (UTC)

Re: Block

I removed the block initially because it was, in fact, the IP address of a known and trusted vandalism remover. However, discussion in the IRC channel indicates that Cool Cat has suffered some sort of attack, meaning that his IP address now also generates vandalism.

While the discussion is ongoing, and until Cool Cat can isolate the problem and remove it, I don't think there'll be any objections to blocking further vandals - I ought to have reblocked, and I should have advised you. My apologies. Rob Church ^Talk 00:35, 6 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]

I think its sorted now. --Cool Cat ^Talk 17:17, 6 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]

A couple of things

Why are you not contacterble by email? "! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! !" is not a helpful reason for blocking.Geni 07:39, 6 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]

As an admin who uses block useing email is really optional.Geni 07:55, 6 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Oh yeah, I second this. Some of your block messages (as seen on #wikipedia-en-vandalism) are really useless. Alphax ^τεχ 13:19, 6 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for blocking my impersonators

Thanks. Job e 6 18:57, 6 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Würzburg radar

There is no consensus on this issue. See Wikipedia talk:Naming conventions (use English). It would seem to me that the best solution is to leave the article under Primary Author as we do for CE AE disputes. In this case the primary author spelt it "Wuerzburg radar" and many Engish refrences spell it Wuezburg radar as does the primary source for this article. --Philip Baird Shearer 18:58, 6 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]

You have moved it back. Persumably while I was trying to leave a message on this talk page which seems to be rather busy at at the moment. Someone has now locked the page by editing it with a second edit using a new user name "P.B.S." Please remove that locking edit and move the page back, as it must be clear to you that you do not have a consensus for the move. If you wish to move it lets do it throught the regular method of using WP:RM for "controversial moves". I feel that it is up to you to achive a consensus for the move to a new name rather than for me to achive a consensus to move it back. Philip Baird Shearer 19:10, 6 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]

By Primary author I mean:

See WP:MOS#National varieties of English "If all else fails, consider following the spelling style preferred by the first major contributor (that is, not a stub) to the article."

and WP:UE "American spellings need not be respelled to British standards nor vice-versa; for example, either Colour or Color is acceptable."

I would seem to me that if this was applied to ~~funny foreign squggles~~ diacritics there would be a lot less of this type of argument.

By Primary source mean see: Würzburg radar#References

But in the mean time please move it back and put in a WP:RM for the move if you want one--Philip Baird Shearer 19:27, 6 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]

There is no "healthy majority" which could be called a consensus or even a "rough consensus" with the very low figure used by WP:RM which many feel is too low!

We do not need to stick to one style any more than we need to have one spelling version. I am VERY leary of your argument "The city is at Würzburg, and ...", that is why I got involved in the debate in the first place. I wrote an article on the Battle of Zurich (one and two) and someone changed it because of the current spelling of Zurich, yet most military books I have read on the Napoleonic Wars spell it Zurich. I have not attempted to move it back (yet) because I decided to try to get a consensus on this issue, and have been trying to do so for a year.

Which google are you using? Because on both google.co.uk and google.co.com "Würzburg radar" and "Wuersburg radar" wrap into one without the ususal ablity to put "Wuersburg radar" -Würzburg an both return only abut 4,000 pages. "Würzburg radar" also returns pages like this www.combinedops.com/Bruneval.htm which has only "Wursburg radar" on it!

"and I assert that for routine non-famous names pages can be moved to the diacritic version without further ado." is hardly the words of someone seeking to build a consensus. I have suggested a compromise on Wikipedia talk:Naming conventions (use English)#An attempt to build a consensus have a look and see what you think. --Philip Baird Shearer 20:49, 6 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Blocking users

I'm trying to (slowly) learn the things I need to understand to get better at this admin stuff. I noticed that you gave Aranda56 an infinite block but I don't really see why. Also, this user Prini made two user page moves. Should I have blocked him or is the warni9ng OK? Thanks. CambridgeBayWeather (talk) 20:12, 6 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]

I didn't block Aranda56, just impostors of him (like Aranda56%). -- Curps 20:34, 6 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]

I see it now, Aranda56", but when I clicked the link it leads to Aranda56 and that's what confused me. Thanks. CambridgeBayWeather (talk) 20:38, 6 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Bad links

Would Curpsbot-unicodify be able to fix some or all of the problems listed under "Encoded characters" on Wikipedia:Bad links? -- Beland 23:05, 6 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Hi,

Sorry I've been neglecting the unicodify bot for a while, I've been busy with other bot-related activities and didn't have time to review its edits. I fired it up again and am running it on your list. Note though that the bot will currently skip any page that contains the <math> tag as well as template pages. -- Curps 02:13, 7 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Awesome. -- Beland 06:58, 7 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Email

Greetings! Thanks for all the work you're doing to stop vandalism. However, I notice you don't have an email address set: I've gotten a couple messages both at the Wikipedia contact address and through Wikipedia email from people who were caught in your blocks mentioning that they tried to contact you and couldn't. Since you do a lot of blocking, would you mind setting an email address in your preferences so that you can handle the collateral damage yourself? I know you've said elsewhere that you don't use email; would you consider using a throwaway account solely for Wikipedia purposes -- or at least mentioning on your userpage some way by which mistakenly blocked users can contact you? Thanks, Mindspillage (spill yours?) 03:48, 7 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Sperm Whale

Hi. Would you be able to run your bot through Sperm Whale? Thanks. --Hottentot

Well, by default the bot doesn't change – and — so it wouldn't do anything, because not everyone approves of changing those (too hard to tell – from hyphen in the edit window. I could set a flag so that it changes them regardless... is that what you're requesting? -- Curps 05:33, 7 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]

No, it's just that a lot of the links have underscores in them. --Hottentot

Poll: Micronation Infobox

An info box template has recently been created by myself and O^O for use in Wikipedia articles about micronations and other unrecognised entities, to address longstanding concerns and edit wars that have resulted from the inappropriate use of the standard country infobox in these types of articles.

This new info box has so far been successfully incorporated into the following articles: Sealand, Republic of Rose Island, Independent State of Aramoana, Empire of Atlantium, Avram and Province of Bumbunga, and it is intended to incorporate it into most of the other articles in the micronation category in due course.

However, one editor, Samboy has suggested that the micronation infobox should be excluded from Empire of Atlantium on the grounds that the article is "not notable" and because only 22% of micronation articles in Wikipedia currently have the info box (ie because the info box project is not yet complete).

As someone who has contributed to similar discussions in the past, I thought this might interest you. I have instituted a poll on this subject here, and invite you to review it if you are so inclined.

Thanks. --Gene_poole 06:03, 7 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]

My personal issue with Gene Poole's action is that there is a conflict of interest here. One of the first micronations he added this infobox to is, conveniently enough, his own micronation. And, while he sets up a poll about whether we should add the template to the article, he did not mention the poll in WP:RFC, which is the best way to make the poll visible to people who have never been involved in the issue. Instead, he posts the existence of the poll on the user pages of a number of users who he feels are symphathetic to his micronation. User:Tony Sidaway has felt that this kind of campaigning is dishonest. Samboy 07:26, 7 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Email contact

Hi, I just got an email from somebody you blocked who had set up an account that looked like an IP address in order to test whether it could be done. When she tried to log back on she could not, because her IP address had been autoblocked. Unfortunately she could not email you to request it be cleared. Looking upwards on this page, it seems that I'm the sixth person in the last two weeks who has noticed that your lack of an email address is a problem when you are placing so many blocks. silsor 06:43, 7 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Vandalism blocked

I put a 24 hour blcok on IP address 210.213.151.42. Vaoverland 07:54, 7 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Wikimedia position

You stated that it might be a good idea to consider a full-time paid position in the Wikimedia foundation that deals with ISPs' Abuse departments to counteract vandalism for the next fundraising drive. I can't find the edit where you made the proposal at most detail. Do you mind finding that diff, or better, start a Open letter to the board about that? Titoxd^(?!?) 17:40, 7 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]

That is something that our legal dept needs to handle. If and when we hire somebody to handle that sort of thing is an open matter. Of more immediate importance is the hiring of another developer and then an experienced executive assistant to take over from Danny Wool so he can concentrate on grant writing (he is currently our interim executive assistant). A letter to the board will be much less effective than participating in the budgeting process for next year. See meta:Finance Department. --mav 19:42, 7 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Hm. I'm not saying those are not important, but it definitely is something that needs to be done sooner than later. [This is the diff in which he described in detail his proposal. Titoxd^(?!?) 17:22, 8 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Blocking and email

Hey Curps -

Could you put your email in your user prefs and set your account to accept email? This is really needed for anybody who blocks other users and IPs since every so often the block hits people who are innocent bystanders and sometimes the blocks are mistaken (we are all human here :). Such a person contacted me to lift a block you placed on a user name that looked like an IP. He was not aware of a policy against that and the block also blocks his real account. Thanks! :) --mav 19:32, 7 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]

?

Can you unblock User:207.156.196.242? Everytime I try to edit with my account, they tell me I'm not allowed to edit. (Kyla 21:50, 8 November 2005 (UTC))[reply]

Then I guess it should work when I edit in school. That's the school's IP address. (Kyla 21:59, 8 November 2005 (UTC))[reply]

O0wenX

Cool! My first impostor! I guess that's a rite of passage, of sorts... Thanks for the quick block! Owen× ☎ 01:30, 9 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Doppelganger on User:Bratsche. (with a full stop)

Umm, I had the obviously not-so-great idea of creating a couple of doppelganger accounts so I didn't get my name slandered. However, they were promptly block by your (user...) bot. I've been unblocked, but this is just to let you know. I think I'll leave the usernames up to you from now on... Cheers, Bratsche^{talk | Esperanza} 21:45, 9 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]

delete history

Can you delete my user page and talk page's history? I don't want to use it anymore. I'm getting too addicted to Wikipedia. (Kyla 23:13, 9 November 2005 (UTC))[reply]

Thank you for blocking the Wik sockpuppets on Empire of Atlantium

Thank you for blocking the Wik sockpuppets on Empire of Atlantium. Whenever Wik shows up again, Gene Poole gets upset and has a hard time acting in a civil manner. Samboy 05:24, 10 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Requesting an Unblock

I am posting this message on behalf of a friend of mine (User:Callisto`) who would like to get his account Callisto` and IP 60.224.52.28 unblocked. He says that he would contest the block himself however is unable to edit this page. The block says he is an imposter of a user User:Callisto although no user nor talk page exists for this user. He said to make a note on the talk page of Curps.

I can assure you that User:Callisto` is not attempting to impersonate any other member. Callisto is his online alias and this can be verified at his Battlefield 2 stats profile and HLFallout.net staff account profile. To my knowledge he has no history of vandalism on Wikipedia. There also appears to be no record of him being warned before being blocked.

Thanks in advance for your prompt attention to this matter,

Juice 12:52, 11 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]

The original User:Callisto has only a single edit, dating back to over a year ago ([7]), so the above request rings true. Owen× ☎ 13:52, 11 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]

delete talk page's history

Can you delete my talk page's history? Apparently people aren't getting the message that I am not coming on Wikipedia. (Kyla 02:18, 12 November 2005 (UTC))[reply]

User page of es.wikipedia vandalized

Your user page in the spanish wiki was vandalized by the ip 201.127.33.199 and I reverted the edit.
Cheers, 213.194.160.36 02:22, 12 November 2005 (UTC) (aka es:Usuario:Flextron)[reply]

Unicodify source

I'm wondering if you'd make the source of your Unicodify bot available? I'm interested in running it on a different wikipedia to change all the interwiki links to proper Unicode characters. Thanks. DHN 08:39, 12 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]

SUPER COOL!

The vandalbot was replacing the sandbox header with the content; I am simply adding it below. --SPUI (talk) 21:17, 12 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]

delete accounts

Can you delete Kyla and Jessica Liao? Someone is bothering me and I can't get him to not chat with me. I am using my computer's IP address b/c I don't want to use those. (69.117.27.68 00:02, 13 November 2005 (UTC))[reply]

The user pages and their talk pages have been deleted, however unfortunately there's no way to delete accounts or their contribution history. -- Curps 00:36, 13 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Then how come people can still leave me comments if my user pages and talk pages are deleted? (69.117.27.68 01:03, 13 November 2005 (UTC))[reply]

The pages' contents and history got deleted, but there's nothing stopping anyone from re-creating User:Kyla or User talk:Kyla just by editing them. There's nothing stopping anyone from editing and creating User:Asdfsgasdfasdsfa either, even if there's no such user as "Asdfsgasdfasdsfa" and no such page ever existed before. That's just the way the software works. I could put a {{deletedpage}} template on them and then protect them, but that's a bit extreme. Right now there's no content at an of the four pages (user and talk), so it doesn't seem to be a problem at the moment. -- Curps 01:14, 13 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Can you put a deletedpage template on Kyla and Jessica Liao? (69.117.27.68 04:17, 13 November 2005 (UTC))[reply]

Well, that template's only supposed to be used when someone is persistently recreating a page that got deleted according to Wikipedia:Articles for deletion (for instance, a hoax or nonsense page). Right now, nobody has recreated either of those two user pages or their talk pages, so it doesn't really apply yet. The template's not really supposed to be used in this situation (talk pages). So maybe we can wait and see. -- Curps 07:17, 13 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]

User:DHN-bot

Yes, I have requested for bot status for it. DHN 04:39, 13 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you

Vandalism

Hey I just wanted to say thanks for cleaning up the vandalism on my talk page so fast.

Theyab 13:43, 13 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Re block

Next time you block an anon IP - READ THE INFORMATION ON THE IP TALK PAGE FIRST!!!!!! I am sick of having loads of disgruntled wiki users email me because they know I'll unblock 202.180.83.6 (since it also blocks me). It's for that reason - among others - that that particular page asks for blocks to be limited to one hour and asks that I be informed before any block is made on that IP. PLEASE do that if you ever need to block it again! Grutness...wha? 00:29, 14 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Sorry...

...but Lucky 6.9 blocked me, although I was sticking to one name and respecting the 3RR. In that case I will have to revert to using throwaway usernames. Ylevisuba 03:16, 14 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]

See my reply on your talk page. The best thing might be to contact User:Linuxbeak, to arrange for him to make an announcement so that you wouldn't be blocked when using a single username. -- Curps 03:26, 14 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Your history of repeated blocks

Is quite troubling, you should consider toning down your blocking and page move habits before some one starts to think you're a bot--Etyheryery 03:27, 14 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]

How dare you!

How dare you help those scammers accuse me of using socks. What the heck is that? Rex071404^{(all logic is premise based)} 04:21, 14 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]