User talk:Amalthea

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"Südabbrüche" und "Schrofenflanken" -- any idea what these mean in the sense of mountain geology? See User:PumpkinSky/Fritzerkogel. PumpkinSky talk 02:43, 14 July 2012 (UTC)

An idea what they mean, but no idea how to translate them.

• Schrofen are rough, typically steep areas with both grass and rock. I assume the word comes from de:wikt:schroff. He, and I notice we have an article on them: Schrofen.
• A Felsabbruch is I believe simply a cliff, so a Südabbruch would be the south face.

For more reliable info I'll have to ask the Alpinists in the family.
Late to the party, don't know whether this is still relevant. :)
Cheers, Amalthea 07:30, 1 August 2012 (UTC)

Danke, - supports what we found, no need to ask further, - the Main page appearance on 26 July opened new heights, --Gerda Arendt (talk) 08:05, 1 August 2012 (UTC)

Re-create Emanuel Pleitez page now that he's running for mayor of Los Angeles?

Hi! Getting in touch because I was looking for information on Emanuel Pleitez' run for Mayor of LA and you were the administrator of record on his deletion page. Full disclosure: the reason I was looking is that I went to college with him. I don't know if the new run for office has put him over the threshold for "significant coverage in reliable sources that are independent of the subject of the article" from WP:POLITICIAN, but there has been | some reasonable amount of coverage and it's very likely it will produce more going forward. I don't have a dog in the fight as a contributor, but as a user I was looking for an encyclopedic summary of his career and I suspect I will not be the only one, so I thought it was worth bringing up. Thanks! Kstinch (talk) 02:00, 26 July 2012 (UTC)

I don't think that I had been involved with that article until now, but I see it has been recreated two days ago. Generally, if you consider the original consensus for deletion no longer valid because e.g. there are now sufficient reliable sources then you can simply go ahead and recreate it.
Cheers, Amalthea 07:11, 1 August 2012 (UTC)

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Just came around to say Hi :). Regards and Happy Editing! TheGeneralUser (talk) 21:29, 5 August 2012 (UTC)

Amalthea (bot)

Hello Amalthea. Your bot last ran task III around 4.5 hours ago, so the SPI pages are getting pretty stale. I went through every case that has been edited since then and fixed three formatting issues that I though might be confusing the bot, but it still isn't running the task. Hopefully you will have a chance soon to look to see what's wrong. Thanks ​—DoRD (talk)​ 21:16, 16 August 2012 (UTC)

Odd. It recovered a few hours ago, and it seems it chocked on this SPI, but I don't know why yet.
Thanks for the note! Amalthea 08:34, 17 August 2012 (UTC)

Very odd, indeed. I don't see anything in these edits that would have substantially changed things from the bot's point of view. Oh well, life goes on. Cheers! ​—DoRD (talk)​ 12:32, 17 August 2012 (UTC)

Fixed and makes sense now: a change in the API made it break if it couldn't find the last Clerk or CU in the last 25 page revisions. Amalthea 12:17, 23 August 2012 (UTC)

"banned user" IP rvs.

I've noticed you're making reverts of edits made by several IPs, with edit summaries stating they are banned users. With no comment on the merits of the reversions or the editing behaviour of the IPs (though from the limited view I have had they may seem potentially problematic), they don't appear to be banned (though one had a temporary block). It's possible I've missed something, in which case apologies, but I thought I'd point it out. Mutt Lunker (talk) 16:05, 22 August 2012 (UTC)

It's Nimbley6 (see Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Nimbley6 for background), I should have been clearer. I didn't really expect there to be so many anon edits, the named socks are all properly tagged. I'm just about finished though.
Cheers, Amalthea 16:07, 22 August 2012 (UTC)

Alright, the few stable IPs are now marked in the block log for clarity, but I think they are both in dynamic ranges so won't prevent any further disruption.
Feel of course free to undo me whereever you think it appropriate -- I tried my best to check any changed information to be sure I don't re-introduce mistakes, but was rather liberal with removing information since he so notoriously pushes his Scottish independence agenda. Amalthea 16:12, 22 August 2012 (UTC)

Thanks for the clarification. I think the intial couple of IP edits I saw were potentially justifiable but overall I'd agree there would appear to be a chauvinitstic inconsistency in their editing (though nothing necessarily to indicate their view on independence, in the edits I've seen at least (it's perfectly possible for individuals with the (anti-English?) attitude apparent in this editor to be pro-Union)). Mutt Lunker (talk) 17:05, 22 August 2012 (UTC)

In this case it's probably both (e.g. "Scotland is a constituent country of the UK" → "Scotland is currently part of the UK"). :) Amalthea 17:14, 22 August 2012 (UTC)

Yep, fair enough. Mutt Lunker (talk) 17:18, 22 August 2012 (UTC)

Reminder

You have not yet followed-through on this commitment. --Walter Görlitz (talk) 16:12, 26 August 2012 (UTC)

I have, but via mail -- if the intention was to retire a real-name account I thought to minimize the explicit on-wiki connections. I haven't heard back yet and I see he has made one edit since, so I'll follow up. Amalthea 16:16, 26 August 2012 (UTC)

NoCal SPI

Sorry, I just noticed your request. I've sent the evidence, though I am unsure if it matters at this point (except perhaps to ask for a sleeper check). Thanks, nableezy - 16:32, 27 August 2012 (UTC)

Great contribution to wikipedia!

Congratulations. You have just erased many thousands of bits only because they were done by a person labeled "banned" by a slav-leftist group ruled by user:Joy and others. Do you ever think that may be you are being used by them? You should think before damaging wikipedia....if you really care -like me- about an impartial and honest encyclopedia. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 98.77.38.94 (talk • contribs) 19:43, 27 August 2012‎ (UTC)

Get yourself unbanned and we talk. Amalthea 19:45, 27 August 2012 (UTC)

How? How can I get rid of this ban?.....not even Jimbo is able to control the nationalistic/political/ethnic groups that are 'slowly but steadily' (these are his own words) damaging wikipedia's reliability. B.D. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 98.77.40.82 (talk) 20:12, 27 August 2012 (UTC)

You can appeal to Jimbo, but it's unlikely that he'll act on it. Other options are appealing to the community (Discussion at WP:AN) and ArbCom (see details at WP:BAN#Appeals and discussions). While not a requirement, with your history of ban evasion you will typically be asked to respect your block for a significant period of time. Amalthea 20:25, 27 August 2012 (UTC)

Thanks for your suggestions. But I am afraid my case is "desperate". I was initially banned from the Italian wiki because 2 relatives from Italy came to live for a full summer in my Florida house and used my same address to write on wikipedia. Before their visit, I had collaborated with wiki for nearly 2 years without any problem. But they wrote on the same subjects with me from my house and a check up showed that we had the same IP, of course: we were all 3 temporarily blocked. I was enraged and "just indicated" that I could denounce the italian admin who did the block....and suddenly I received an "infinite ban" because of this. This was my initial "crime", and I could do nothing against it: I was not even allowed to defend myself, because continuously banned every time I tried to post something about me (I remember having offered to talk to italian admins even by phone together with my 2 relatives, so that they could realize that we were 3 different persons!). Then the nationalistic croats (ruled by user:Joy, with others like user:DIREKTOR) discovered that I had been banned in the Italian wiki and quickly banned me from all wikipedia......... Anyway, thanks again. Sincerely, Bruno. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 98.77.39.49 (talk) 21:21, 27 August 2012 (UTC)

I'm not sure that matches what I've read earlier today at this ancient checkuser and your ban discussion here, you were banned due to abuse of multiple accounts on this project. And I still see you talking to yourself, presumingly to pretend that the accounts are used by different people (1, 2, 3). That is plain inappropriate in this community project.
Still, no situation is too desperate. First step would be to believably assert that you accept community norms and any prior problems will not reoccur. Everyone can be unbanned eventually, every editor can be welcomed back if the community believes he is here to help. Until you can convince the community of that however I am tasked to enforce your ban.
Amalthea 21:41, 27 August 2012 (UTC)

I told you my case is desperate. Nationalistic slavs like user:AlasdairGreen27 have built in group a perfect ban scenario for me, as they have done with other Italians with provocations of every kind. Try to write something against their beloved Tito and -if you write with an anonymous IP- you'll see what they'll do to you. You'll finish talking to yourself, because they can talk in group while you're alone....and probably your anonymous IP will be banned because forced to react in a wrong way (like I did) as they want. Additionally let me pinpoint that, for example, even the commentaries (well referenced) from president Truman about 400,000 murders done by Tito to get control of Jugoslavia cannot be posted on en.wikipedia! I and others have tried unsuccessfully for years....Furthermore, they will never accept my return, I am sure about it. Anyway, I know that there are other ways to go on writing on wikipedia. Friends and relatives can help me soon or later with my erased posts, for example, or I can move and start from scratch (after some months/years without posting on wiki). Sincerely, thanks again. B.D. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 98.77.103.229 (talk) 22:39, 27 August 2012 (UTC)