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Dear "Black Kite". This is in reference to the article "Greater Middle East". You recently blocked me for a couple of days for editing article "Greater Middle East". I am not sure why I was blocked, because I am trying to keep the article in context. In fact, I have explained the deletion twice in the TALK section under "Relevance of article". This article has been consistent in context from 2006 until February 2013. For the last few weeks, an attempt is being made to generalize the article to the extent of triviality.
I have opened a dispute resolution for this case which you can see at: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Dispute_resolution_noticeboard#Greater_Middle_East — Preceding unsigned comment added by 99.235.25.103 (talk) 11:06, 15 March 2013 (UTC)
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Please take a moment to review the simple guide and join the discussion. Thank you! --Guy Macon (talk) 06:52, 17 March 2013 (UTC) POV editor and harassmentAs an administrator who is familiar with the WP:LGBT project and related articles, could you please take a look here: [1]? Thank you so much. --Scientiom (talk) 16:35, 17 March 2013 (UTC) Post-merge deletionHi mate! Per your close here (thanks again!), some merger work has now taken place at William V, Prince of Orange, adding material from Government of the Dutch Republic in exile. The material merged is generally that which was highlighted at AFD as being of some use. There has been no challenge to the AFD close, material has now been merged and I think the original article can probably now be deleted. Would you rather we ask another admin to do that or are you happy to take a look? For the sake of technicality, there's also been a (very) brief discussion here. Cheers, Stalwart111 04:15, 18 March 2013 (UTC)
AC/DS comments requestedHi, as an administrator who has recently been active at WP:AE, you may be interested in AGK's request for comments at User talk:Sandstein#Draft of discretionary sanctions update. Sandstein 15:25, 18 March 2013 (UTC) Thank youThanks for taking care of the Acoma Magic sockpuppet. I was adding more evidence when I encountered an edit conflict, and saw that you had already closed the SPI. Much appreciated. - MrX 00:56, 19 March 2013 (UTC) You've got mail!Hello, Black Kite. Please check your email; you've got mail!
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Message added 15:10, 19 March 2013 (UTC). You can remove this notice at any time by removing the {{Talkback}} or {{Tb}} template. It wuz me (as I'm sure you guessed) Elen on the Roads:talk to me 15:10, 19 March 2013 (UTC) ANIPlease, remove the protection as soon as possible. I understand that it is sometimes necessary, but I'd hope blocks would prevent the disruption soon. Thanks. 88.104.27.2 (talk) 23:29, 19 March 2013 (UTC) Off-topic but I just noticed your comment at the top about arb "Articlespace edits in 2012"... Jesus... that's probably the most alarming stat I've ever seen on the wiki. Crazy days. 88.104.27.2 (talk) 23:42, 19 March 2013 (UTC) Scott Burns (voice actor)Hi, you deleted this article back in January as a G4, but I cannot find the original AfD... GiantSnowman 19:58, 20 March 2013 (UTC)
Hi, you closed this nomination as merge into Heljareyga. However, Heljareyga is just a redirect to Heljareyga (album). When I relisted it earlier today, I thought about merging into Týr (band). Could you please have a look. Thanks in advance.--Ymblanter (talk) 15:32, 23 March 2013 (UTC)
I can see where you got the numbers to support that close, but I gotta say that the delete arguments, as a whole, were so ridiculously non-policy-based in that case, that I would have been tempted to ignore the numbers and close per policy. There are simply too many editors who don't understand what WP:BLP actually says, and instead think that anything that makes anyone look bad is unsuitable material. Unfortunately, if poor behavior happens to be documented by reliable sources, it's fair game. Still, the closing statement could have been much worse, although I disagree with deleting the redirect--absent any policy-based reason for deletion, it should be retargeted to the season. Cheers, Jclemens (talk) 02:22, 24 March 2013 (UTC) I made a small/really big mistake in a sock investigation reportI filed a report asking to investigate User:Goo86 as a sock of User:Acoma Magic. Unfortunately I wasn't paying attention and opened it up under User:Acoma magic. I have fixed the particulars within the report, but I can't move the report and am unsure about the technicalities of my mistake. [WP:Sockpuppet investigations/Acoma magic|Could you take a look at it]] and make sure everything is in the right place? Thank you for your time.Coffeepusher (talk) 03:56, 24 March 2013 (UTC)
Mr IwachiwYou should Google this guy; it's fascinating. Sued NYC for $1.6B in damages. Perennial candidate; ran for Mayor on the Green ticket in 2001. Vexatious litigant. For example. --jpgordon::==( o ) 23:59, 25 March 2013 (UTC) your closure of a case where the guy admits he is hounding meConcerning this [2]. I have some questions I really need answered. If someone admits they sometimes check someone's contributions, just to follow them to some place they have never been before, just to argue the opposite of them, then isn't that in violation of the rule? If they know they can get away with it if they only do it now and again, always after arguing with the person somewhere else, is it acceptable? I listed three examples of places he could not have possible found his way to unless he followed me, and he does not deny that. He states he knows the rules, and as long as it isn't constant, he believes he can get away with it. Can you read through what I wrote, and not let him sidetrack the discussion like he always does in such cases? And ANI was the right place to bring this up, since I need an administrator to look at what he has done and what he has said, and tell him he can't do that. Dream Focus 13:41, 26 March 2013 (UTC) Unblock requestKnow anything about this unblock request? ‑Scottywong| confer _ 19:09, 26 March 2013 (UTC)
Lifting the Gibraltar DYK restrictionsA couple of months ago, you opposed a proposal to lift the restrictions on Gibraltar-related DYKs, which were imposed in September 2012. Could you possibly clarify (1) under what conditions you would support a lifting of the restrictions, and (2) when you think it would be appropriate to lift the restrictions? Prioryman (talk) 20:14, 7 April 2013 (UTC) I think this should be unprotected and have given my reasons at ANI. It needs revising or deleting, and I don't see how keeping it protected will help. I can see why you did it but I think it is time now to allow it to be edited. Dougweller (talk) 07:58, 9 April 2013 (UTC) Black Kite, perhaps this shouldn't have been closed that quickly? I've notified the alleged IP miscreants, and am just about to ask Florence if they want any talkpage comments rev-del'd.--Shirt58 (talk) 10:37, 10 April 2013 (UTC)
Please see admin Boing's talk page regarding IP 109, who's on yet another proxy server. I see you blocked him. Thanks. But he'll be back with many more. 76.189.111.2 (talk) 19:32, 13 April 2013 (UTC)
MfD nomination of Wikipedia:Article Incubator/CradlewoodWikipedia:Article Incubator/Cradlewood, a page you substantially contributed to, has been nominated for deletion. Your opinions on the matter are welcome; please participate in the discussion by adding your comments at Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Wikipedia:Article Incubator/Cradlewood and please be sure to sign your comments with four tildes (~~~~). You are free to edit the content of Wikipedia:Article Incubator/Cradlewood during the discussion but should not remove the miscellany for deletion template from the top of the page; such a removal will not end the deletion discussion. Thank you. Tokyogirl79 (。◕‿◕。) 09:47, 22 April 2013 (UTC)
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Having looked through the user's posts on WP:ANI, I'm quite strongly reminded of indefblocked User:Theodore7. 2006 RfAR here. ("Institutional memory" is my middle name.) Well, perhaps the rebarbative manner is typical of true believers in astrology. They probably feel beleaguered here, so in a way it's not surprising. Bishonen | talk 15:15, 27 April 2013 (UTC). AIVThanks and best wishes DBaK (talk) 18:14, 30 April 2013 (UTC) New Article - India IsHi there, I'm working on a new article called "India Is", a series of competitions hosted by Indian Public Diplomacy. Possible for you to review the article? Link: [[3]]. Any feedback would be great. Much thanks. Shivam Sharma 23:48, 30 April 2013 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Shivam.s88 (talk • contribs) You're mentionedAt Wikipedia:Requests for comment/Folken de Fanel, the subject of the RfC has decided that an incident where we disagreed from 2009 is relevant enough to bring up. Feel free to respond as and if you see fit. Cheers, Jclemens-public (talk) 19:06, 1 May 2013 (UTC)
Discussion at Talk:Anastasia_InternationalYou are invited to join the discussion at Talk:Anastasia_International. Entyre (talk) 18:53, 2 May 2013 (UTC) British PakistanisYou honestly think I will discuss further with Andy? Who has already used his usual fallback of implying that I am a racist? Ain't gonna happen, sorry. Darkness Shines (talk) 17:56, 5 May 2013 (UTC)
What the sources actually say
So now you can match sources to the content purportedly supported by them. Enjoy. Uncle G (talk) 21:22, 6 May 2013 (UTC)
A barnstar for you!
Satoshi_Nakamotoundelete request re Satoshi Nakamoto. Given bitcoins subsequent meteoric rise in popularity since the deletion, I think it should be re-considered. Bitcoin is the hotest new development on the internet this decade and the man who did it gets deleted from wikipedia, seemingly largely because he's using a Nom de Plume and so not much is known biographically. The works of the mind are 90% of your experience on the Internet, so it can not diminish recognition of the technical accomplishment that the author chose to use a Nom de Plume, and not reveal his True Name. There are many significant technical and literary works that were published under Nom de Plumes or anonymously, including for example some of he founding documents of the USA. The page as I recall what it said contained plenty of interesting information, and the question of "who is satoshi nakamoto" is even the subject of an upcoming documentary film, dozens of prominent media articles, and the question will likely remain of historical interest in perpetuity. I presume you realize the bitcoin currency has a coins in circulation in excess of $1billion as of may 2013. The innovations in bitcoin relative to the state of the cryptographic art are significant, and the implementation itself has been recognized as a work of security coding in its own right. This is not a trivial implementation, and the cryptographic ideas that were invented by Nakamoto and incorporated into it are new, innovative and significant. I hope I put this in the right place, finding wikipedia process for undelete request a confusing maze of cross links exceedingly confusing. Adam2us (talk) 16:16, 6 May 2013 (UTC)
thats true, however it seemed rather shorter than I remember. And much of the justification for merging int bitcoin page seemed to be downplaying the relevance of bitcoin. I am not sure what tipped it, but there were quite a few poo-poos of bitcoin. Bitcoin's rise to $1b market cap and VCs queueing up to invest in it has shown that was way premature. There is some more information on https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Satoshi_Nakamoto and I think there is more info in different locations that perhaps could be collected if a reference to the reinstatement was to be posted on the bitcointalk forum. For example was some discussion of whether Nakamoto was aware of related systems predating bitcoin. He cited Wei Dai's B-money but not Nick Szabo's bit-gold. However Wei and myself had both received emails from Nakamoto and confirmed this publicly that Nakamoto claimed not to be aware of B-money before I provided him the reference in response to him sending me the abstract to his paper. Szabo himself http://unenumerated.blogspot.com/2011/05/bitcoin-what-took-ye-so-long.html and Gwern http://www.gwern.net/Bitcoin%20is%20Worse%20is%20Better wrote some quite detailed and well researched information about the related systems that predated bitcoin. Probably some of that is wikipedia referencable grade. Adam2us (talk) 23:19, 8 May 2013 (UTC) Alan Weiss[5] Thanks. 88.210.112.33 (talk) 22:11, 7 May 2013 (UTC) Anastasia articleKudos to you for trying to separate the wheat from the chaff in the Anastasia article. Here is freely available US government records on Anastasia legally obtained: https://anonfiles.com/file/aef320abb7a0a30961a713a610b989d3 — Preceding unsigned comment added by Entyre (talk • contribs) 19:16, 8 May 2013 (UTC) Deletion of Ben Duscher articleYou decided to delete this article although point 3 of the following criteria appeared to be met. Could you please provide your reasoning as I plan a deletion review. Athletes who compete in Australian rules football are presumed notable if they meet any of the criteria below Has appeared in a match of the Australian Football League. Before 1990, appeared in a match of the Victorian Football League. Is known, and has received significant coverage in reliable sources, for major individual achievements in a state football league. Best wishesNimbusWeb (talk) 00:02, 10 May 2013 (UTC) This is my second request for information as to how a consensus was reached in relation to point 3 of the criteria above.There could have been a mistake, miscommunication, or misunderstanding, and a full review may not be needed. NimbusWeb (talk) 08:39, 11 May 2013 (UTC) Deletion review for Ben DuscherAn editor has asked for a deletion review of Ben Duscher. Because you closed the deletion discussion for this page, speedily deleted it, or otherwise were interested in the page, you might want to participate in the deletion review. The-Pope (talk) 01:08, 12 May 2013 (UTC) India IsHi, I'm currently writing an article on 'India Is', an initiative of Indian Public Diplomacy Division of the Ministry of External Affairs of India. Since I've participated in the India Is competitions twice, I thought I'll put it on wiki too. Would be great if you could review the same. I've tried to add as many reference links as possible. Thank you. Look forward to your feedback. link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Articles_for_creation/India_Is Shivam Sharma 12:29, 13 May 2013 (UTC) Sigh...And now I will have to wait for the block timer to run out before I can clear his page... Well done, Wikipedia. I surrender to you... — Preceding unsigned comment added by 38.114.202.32 (talk) 23:40, 13 May 2013 (UTC)
Hello. There is currently a discussion at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents regarding an issue with which you may have been involved. The thread is Use of RevisionDelete on The Name of the Doctor. Thank you. Phillip A (talk) 17:48, 14 May 2013 (UTC) The Exoneration of Mike Sholars
Please take action. :)Hello, Black Kite. You have new messages at
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Message added 20:41, 15 May 2013 (UTC). You can remove this notice at any time by removing the {{Talkback}} or {{Tb}} template. QwortyHi Black Kite, I was about to close the Qworty thread but you beat me to it. I felt obliged to add my closing commentary to it; I hope you don't mind. Obviously it agrees with yours; I reached a slightly different conclusion about the site ban and I would have left that for AN, but there is plenty of support for that as well. Thanks, Drmies (talk) 13:15, 19 May 2013 (UTC)
Blah, you closed Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Energetically modified cement (2nd nomination) while I was editing, causing me to modify it after you closed it=p Transcendence (talk) 21:09, 20 May 2013 (UTC)
Explain pleaseCan you tell me why you chose to archive this while the question from WaltCip remained unanswered by BWilkins? Gruesome Foursome (talk) 11:48, 23 May 2013 (UTC)
Bodu Bala SenaHiya, Thanks for your help. Anon user is "outing" me again, and also changing the text to what I've posted on the talk page. Is it also possible to get my User page protected? They've been posting their garbage about me there too, and reverting my removals. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Haminoon (talk • contribs) 10:15, 27 May 2013 (UTC)
The Aldren StaffYou recently deleted the page I created, The Aldren Staff. I was wondering if you could clarify the reasoning, for I am not familiar with either G11s or PRODs. I was removing the unambiguous advertising as you deleted the page. Ben Shipman (talk) 20:30, 27 May 2013 (UTC) Regarding disputehello. I saw what you wrote. Yes I agree it's a triviality, and that's part of my point. And I already discussed this (at length too) on the article talk page. The IP user doesn't care. So what do I do? I just don't like the fact that it was HIS last revert that remained just before your block protection. But the point though is that there's no "consensus" for his trivial whining about this matter, and there arguably doesn't need to be, as my modification is not some earth-shaking or horrible thing. But valid and sourced and standard. So again, what do I do here? Gabby Merger (talk) 01:22, 30 May 2013 (UTC)
RulesI know them. Film Fan 08:10, 1 June 2013 (UTC)
Request for assistanceSince I know you are well versed and this is a rather lengthy discussion can you please close Wikipedia:Non-free_content_review#Savez_izvi.C4.91a.C4.8Da_Bosne_i_Hercegovine as an uninvolved administrator? Werieth (talk) 13:16, 6 June 2013 (UTC) I wish you would take a second look at this. My (obviously involved) observation is that most of the "keep" responses did not deal with the issues with the supposed sources. The only extensive source (the book) isn't independent, and the news "sources" all appear to be derived from press releases or (in a couple of cases) are by one or another of the grandmothers themselves. Mangoe (talk) 12:35, 10 June 2013 (UTC) A barnstar for you!
Thanks for stubbing India Against Corruption. WP:EW has again erupted with the entry of User:Sitush and see this [6]. Please lockdown the page for another fortnight to your stub. If you have the time please also similarly stub and then lock the rival group's page Aam Aadmi Party where I have set out how that article is contrary to Wikipedia policies in considerable detail. AcorruptionfreeIndia (talk) 04:43, 12 June 2013 (UTC)
I noticed the AN post related to the person stalking this user cross-wiki. One of the accounts, User:Qźwa Sobkowska, used on several wikis for attacks, is also globally locked. The other acct I found in March was User:Kuba Jasiak. I think I'll start a list of suspected socks at User:Pacynka Sobkowskiego, which looks to be the oldest acct. INeverCry 16:39, 13 June 2013 (UTC) Hi Black Kite, thanks for cleaning! :-) Actually, all of the above accounts are socks of User:Stepa. In pl:wiki pl:Stepa is blocked infinitely. Since 2010 he created dozens of illegal socks. It is his typical action after block of his sock, to add extremely vulgar comments and pictures in blocking admin account in other wiki projects, e.g. User:Karol007 (an admin and CU in pl:wiki) was attacked here or in Wikinews (just an exemplary diff, more attacks are to be found in history). Regards, Michał Sobkowski (talk) 11:27, 14 June 2013 (UTC) Bodu Bala SenaFYI: Sockpuppet investigations Mbrahmana. Joshua Jonathan -Let's talk! 03:54, 14 June 2013 (UTC) HiUser EricaL2003 is back and doing the same huge edits to the Paris Hilton article that got her blocked the last time. I let you be the judge of what needs to be done.--BabbaQ (talk) 01:42, 17 June 2013 (UTC) A cup of coffee for you!
Exide (band) & sock puppet concernsHi there - I see you were the administrator who deleted the discussion of the Exide (band) page after this discussion: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Exide_(band). user:Stainedclasssinner - who previously removed multiple AFD templates for the Exide related articles, including one more than once after being instructed not to - has now recreated the page Exide (band). I am also suspicious the user may be using the account user:DokkenRocker100 as a sock-puppet, as the two seem to very frequently edit the same pages - their edit histories show a lot of concenrtation on Exide-related articles and bands that had been linked to Exide (e.g. both have edited Skull Fist a lot, a page which one of them at some stage added something along the lines of "the band is part of the New Wave of Tradtional Metal along with bands like Exide" to, a line I found on several other articles that the two accounts had been editing). Both users have the distinctive misspelling "knowligable" on their userpage, too. When I first noticed the pair I looked back over their editing habits and noticed that the now-blocked user user:Thrashgod500 had also regularly edited articles about Skull Fist and Exide - two very niche, obscure bands especially the latter (Exide has almost no web presence beyond their own self-created social media accounts). The date that account was blocked? The date the "DokkenRocker100" account was created. Even after Thrashgod500 was blocked from editing, Stainedclasssinner gave Thrashgod500 a barnstar for their contributions to heavy metal on Wikipedia. There's something fishy going on, tying those three accounts together. If I recall, deleting administrators should be contacted about deleted pages (that would be you) but sock-puppets are dealt with on a specific area of Wikipedia; since the two issues are intertwined, it made more sense to contact you first though. If possible, could you take over investigating this issue and resolving it for me? I have blanked the page for Exide (band) but beyond that am unsure what I can do, really. I haven't been involved in this sort of thing often - I'm just an editor at heart, I don't pretend to be anything more - and unsure what is considered correct course of action when it comes to rule-breaking and accusations and things. When I enter a discussion on an article I get somewhat invested in seeing the right thing happen to it which is why I'm not walking away from the issue, but this is definitely an area where you would probably be more equipped to handle it than I am. Hit me up if you need anything from me on this matter. |