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Archive

thank you

thank you i did not know that we coulnd't add external links. well you know what im saying. that really helped me that you.

Recent revert

Hi. You recently reverted an edit of mine at the Linux article. I don't feel strongly about this particular edit, but next time when you revert someone's edit please provide an edit summary with an explanation or bring it up on the talk page. 80.233.255.7 00:22, 13 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I'm sorry, I thought that was vandalism. Linux isn't generally considered a family of operating systems. --Yamla 00:32, 13 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Simtropolis

Recently, I have listed Simtropolis at AfD. Can you semi-protect the AfD page to keep it from being spammed by IPs and single purpose accounts with WP:ILIKEIT votes. The site is already asking its members to come and save the article. ([1]). The last 2 AfDs were closed as keep and no consensus because of the large amount of ILIKEIT votes coming from members of the site. It would be nice if this AfD was actually based on our policies and guidelines instead of off site canvassing. --Malevious Userpage •Talk Page• Contributions 15:42, 13 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Will do. --Yamla 16:10, 13 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Actually, I'm going to run this past WP:ANI first because I'm not sure if the page should be semi-protected or if we should just stick a warning on it. --Yamla 16:11, 13 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Alright :) --Malevious Userpage •Talk Page• Contributions 16:12, 13 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]


i am so sorry

i am so sorry for those edits i hope that im not breaking the law i didnt mean too all i ever do is read wikipedia articles please do not edit all of my hard work. 7:15 pm monday 13 August 2007 by user 82.13.19.121

Re: TOR proxies

Oh, ok. Darn it. I guess the only option would then be to send them over to the Chinese Wiki? Hersfold (t/a/c) 15:13, 14 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I'm actually not sure what the best alternative is. Our official policy (not just for the English Wikipedia) is to block proxies. The best solution is that the Chinese government tears down their firewall and stops filtering the Internet but that seems unlikely in the short term. It's a huge problem. --Yamla 15:15, 14 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]
It appears that Mike Rosoft (talk · contribs · blocks · protections · deletions · page moves · rights · RfA) has also converted many TOR proxies to soft blocks in recent days - would you check this out as well? Scobell302 20:31, 14 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]
I'll leave a note. --Yamla 20:50, 14 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • On WP:PROXY talk page there seems to be a consensus that softblocking Tor and similar proxies should be an option (if not general policy); in addition, there is an opinion from Jimbo Wales in support of Tor proxies being softblocked.

    There's one possible concern: a vandal (or another disruptive user) may - after his address is blocked from editing and registration of accounts - ask a friend to register an account for him and send him the password, and then use it to edit through a proxy (which otherwise can't be used to edit or register an account, either). Perhaps some mechanism to prevent that could be created? (For example: the third kind of blocked IP addresses which can't be used by unregistered and new users - corresponding to semiprotected pages. Also, "new user" should be defined by something else than just time elapsed from registration; currently, semiprotection can be easily bypassed by vandals.) - Mike Rosoft 14:01, 15 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Verdict

Hi Yamla, I have noticed recently that Verdict still seems intent on vandalising professional wrestling pages. Seeing as this has been going on for a while (six months at least), would it be necessary to create a long term abuse page on him? Davnel03 16:47, 14 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, almost certainly. Are you volunteering?  ;-) I think my next free weekend is the middle of September. Not that I'm really complaining. --Yamla 16:53, 14 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]
I'll start it off, but you are going to have to somehow help as you have since most of his edits. Davnel03 16:56, 14 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Heres the page. I'll inform WP:PW. Davnel03 17:17, 14 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks! I've added it to my watchlist and I will attempt to add to it when able. --Yamla 17:29, 14 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Yamla,

I am trying to add our link to the local towns in our area that we service. However, I posted a request to add these links and only one person has gotten back to me. How long does it normally take to be responded to? And if this is something that you can do...these are the towns that I want to add an external link to provided we are the local newspaper (main newspaper) for these towns and have setup town specific pages on our site.

The towns are: 1) Acushnet, MA 2) Dartmouth, MA 3) Fairhaven, MA 4) Freetown, MA 5) Lakeville, MA 6) Rochester, MA 7) Somerset, MA 8) Swansea, MA 9) Wareham, MA 10) Westport, MA

I did get a response on one (Fall River, MA) and he asked me if it was appropriate to have our link on there. I would say yes. I have gone on many other town pages and their local newspaper is posted under their external link because it is their local news and inforamtion site. Can you please help with this or is there someone that maintains that town pages?

Also, I have posted a request to add article information on a few other sites. Can you please see if these are appropriate as well. For these, I also believe that our information/link is very relevant and appropriate. If you could please review that would be great! Here are the pages:

1) Blessed Sacrament Page 2) New Bedford, MA Page 3) Passionada Page 4) Buzzards Bay Page 5) John Manjiro Page - a user undid the spam on my article because they thought it was appropriate (which I believe too). However, should I somewhere in that Wikipedia page add some of the article information to make the reference link valid?

Thanks so much! I appreicate it! --Tracys49 13:34, 15 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

West Virginia Legislature photos

I did a little research, and it turns out that it takes more than confirmation from one senator to make these PD. We would need something from the Legislature sent to us. youngamerican (wtf?) 14:11, 15 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

The copyrights, it seems, belong to the WV Legislature's Office of Reference and Information and they do not expressly release their photos under a free license. youngamerican (wtf?) 14:21, 15 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Warning newbies

Hi. Just a quick question for you. Is this guy just spamming talk pages, or doing something legal? User: AlexFR. Have a look at his recent edits. Thanks. --Escape Orbit 21:03, 15 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I'll take a look. --Yamla 21:16, 15 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]
It was an account being used solely for spam and has been blocked indefinitely. --Yamla 21:21, 15 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Question

Hey, Yamla what's up? Question: How do you renominate and article that failed GA status? Just wondering. --  ThinkBlue  (Hit BLUE) 18:43, 16 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

over the top, eh?

I think your actions were unhelpful and disruptive. You abused your admin. powers even though you knew I am not the problem. Take your abusive protection off of my talk page fortwith, without delay. Mumun 無文 19:42, 16 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

No reply is requested. Please do not contact me for any reason whatsoever. You may have 40,000 edits, but I think you should strongly consider a wikibreak and leave honest editors ALONE!!! Please reflect upon your actions Mumun 無文 19:48, 16 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

This editor had his page protected due to continued unblock abuse. See contribution log for details. --Yamla 20:02, 16 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]
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