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Sorry I missed you the 1st time around!

Thank you for voting in my RfA, which passed with 194 supporting, 9 opposing, and 4 neutral. Your kindness and constructive criticism is very much appreciated. I look forward to using the tools you have granted me to aid the project. I would like to give special thanks to Tim Vickers, Anthony and Acalamari for their nominations. Thank you again, VanTucky

Thank you from Horologium

Thank you for participating in my RfA, which passed unanimously with the support of 100 editors. Your kindness is very much appreciated. I look forward to using the tools you have granted me to aid the project. I would like to give special thanks to Wizardman, Black Falcon and jc37 for nominating me. — Horologium

New coach needed :(

Riana has semi-retired, so I will need a new coach :(. Coaching page is here Thanks, CWii_{(Talk|Contribs)} 16:25, 4 May 2008 (UTC)

Well, no need to start another section, so...yeah, Riana semi-left (should I say "righted"?) and now I've got no one. (AC page) 21655 18:24, 5 May 2008 (UTC)

full to semi

Hi, could you please downgrade the full protection at Kayanis (Tribe) to semi. The semi will probably suffice to keep the A. Kayani socks at bay, and a fullprotect can always be reinstated if he manages to sneak through. The fullprotect appears to have provoked a new Kayani (name). -- Fullstop (talk) 22:28, 5 May 2008 (UTC)

WP:BAG

Heya, I wanted to let you know, I have nominated you for membership at WP:BAG. It is my opinion, that we could use more of the 'voice of the community', in the bot approvals group, and, those with excellent communications skills such as yourself. If you would, please indicate your acceptance of my nomination here. SQL 06:25, 6 May 2008 (UTC)

BAG advertisements

I'm not sure that all the public postings you've made of this notification were warranted. VP proposals, for example, has never had anything to do with user nominations. I understand that you're excited and want to get the discussion rolling, but for the future please be careful about where you post such things. Thanks. Equazcion •✗/C • 08:54, 6 May 2008 (UTC)

AFAIK, VP among other places was 'standard practice', for BAG noms to be placed in (tho, I think it may have been technical, not proposals. Not sure, I didn't post to VP for mine....) SQL 08:58, 6 May 2008 (UTC)

Actually, I was following rules discussed here and here. MBisanz 09:00, 6 May 2008 (UTC)

I don't see much at those links specifically addressing where to advertise BAG nominations. I could be missing something though, as I just did a quick scan of those discussions. Regardless, VP proposals just seems an inappropriate place to me, and again I've never seen any notice of any type of user nomination there. Such things should be kept to AN, RFA, and the bot policy talk page (as examples), IMO. No harm done though. Equazcion •✗/C • 09:12, 6 May 2008 (UTC)

Well I might've hit the wrong VP per . Maybe that should be part of the developing rules at WP:BOT over how to join BAG, which VPs and Noticeboards are the "right" ones. Since so many people complain BAG is covert in its operations, I figured I'd be as open as possible to set an example. Thanks for the pointer though. MBisanz 09:26, 6 May 2008 (UTC)

Thank you for the typo alert

MBisanz...Thank you very much for the typo alert! I am embarrassed. - LA @ 10:27, 6 May 2008 (UTC)

Kayanis (Tribe)

Can you please unblock editing in Kayanis (Tribe) article. Thanks. Misaq Rabab (talk) 15:24, 6 May 2008 (UTC)

Thanks Misaq Rabab (talk) 15:44, 6 May 2008 (UTC)

Image:Zune30.jpg

Why did you mark it as non-free? Songbird is free software, you can't even tell it's on Windows by that screenshot alone. ViperSnake151 22:45, 6 May 2008 (UTC)

Re:WP:SNOW

Yes, but in my opinion it should be, and I did take it as an interpretation of WP:IAR. Dreamafter (talk) 01:02, 7 May 2008 (UTC)

GWAblock/Onspeedblock

I suggest you withdraw the TFDs on those proxy blocking templates before you make a complete fool out of yourself by being over-eager trying to clean up things you're unfamiliar with. You've never worked WP:OP before, have you? --  Netsnipe  ►  18:27, 7 May 2008 (UTC)

Image question - commons vs. en:wiki

Hey MB, you're at the intersection of image and bot knowledge. We have a small problem with commons image deletion at the CWNB noticeboard. There are some non-PD images that we will need to upload here under FUR while we can still see them at commons. My question here is: how do we avoid detection of duplicate images between en:wiki and commons, we need to re-upload the images to en:wiki as non-free and write the rationales, but whilst we're doing that, is a bot going to come along and detect the dupe and CSD-nom it on en:wiki? Thanks! Franamax (talk) 21:44, 7 May 2008 (UTC)

Regarding

I have posted no such information. The edit I am assuming that this refers to is not a threat to post such information, and I am not in possesion of the information in question.

The edit in question is pointing out that our Right to vanish is a right granted to users that are exercicing their right to leave. This is seperate but related to the priniciple that real world identeties of editors should be protected. In particular note that ] states;

1. Vanishing does not apply to users not leaving.
2. Deletion of information giving real world identity of a user is not vanishing.

Right to vanish is explicitly the right of an editor leaving the project to disasociate himself from the edits he have made while he was active.

In short, I have no problem with a user wishing to disassociate himself from a former username. I feel that this a right that should be extended in all but extreme cases. I do have a problem with an active user invoking the right to vanish in requesting this right. Taemyr (talk) 12:16, 8 May 2008 (UTC)

It seems to me that if the editor wants to get it across that her desires in this case is backed by policy it would be better if the reference was to a policy that applies. Rather than one that explicitly does not apply. So rather than saying I have been known under a previous name, but changed names under the Right to Vanish. Please do not mention that name on my talk page, I would like to keep it private. It should say something like I have been known under a previous username, but do not wish this name to be mentioned. Per applicable policy failure to respect this wish is considered harassments. Taemyr (talk) 21:13, 8 May 2008 (UTC)

Copy Editing

Hi. I saw you listed at WP:1FAPQ#Project resources. Do you still do copy editing? If so, would you have time to give Himura Kenshin a going over? It is currently a GA article and we're working on taking it to FAC. During a peer review, the main problem noted were issues with the prose. Collectonian (talk) 18:12, 8 May 2008 (UTC)

Hmm, haven't done that much recently, but I should be doing more stuff like this. I'll try to take a first pass in +8 hours. MBisanz 18:32, 8 May 2008 (UTC)

Awesome, thanks :) Collectonian (talk) 18:53, 8 May 2008 (UTC)

User:Mentalhead

I see that you put a temporarily blocked template on User:Mentalhead's user page. However, when I tried to check the blog log for the user, it appears to be empty. Also, the user didn't have any warnings placed on the talk page, and the user doesn't appear to be vandalizing. So I'm confused. Was the template placed on the wrong page in error? - Enuja (talk) 20:16, 8 May 2008 (UTC)

Gakhars

Can you please unblock editing of Gakhars article. Thanks. Misaq Rabab (talk) 00:49, 9 May 2008 (UTC)

Request to reconsider banning

While trying to understand how to properly deal with vandalism, I stumbled upon a page of User:Riana. While I'm sure he/she had the best of intentions, Riana apparently did something very unfair to one contributor. Because the contributor in question was rather easily angered, this escalated into him vandalizing Riana's page, and subsequently getting banned.

I read the user's comments, and I agree it's very hard to communicate with him. However, in all honesty, the origin of this problem was a grave mistake by Riana. Here's what happened:

• The user in question, User talk:Shadow Blaze, made an edit to a Star Wars: Galactic Battlegrounds page; his edits were extremely helpful (he typed in several pages worth of useful and unique information)
• Apparently, being inexperienced, he blanked out the page before applying the edits; note that his full update included both his own text, as well as the original content of the page. See here, around 26 October 2007; you can see blank page - reversal - blank page - <new text> - reversal. The <new text> included the original content plus a lot of hand-typed information by Shadow Blaze
• Riana AV bot auto-reverted his edits, including not only the blanking, but the useful edits as well (see see here for the changes that were reverted)
• Shadow Blaze, being an easily angered person, went on rampage changing pages left and right; in no way do I condone what he did, but he certainly did that in what he felt was a just revenge for a random edit reversal by an admin
• No one bothered to explain to Shadow Blaze that his edits were reverted by mistake; no one bothered to put those hand-typed edits back; basically as far as he could see, thousands of words he typed in were just erased by an evil admin for no reason; I'm an admin myself, so I know how AV bots work, but few regular contributors know that
• Shadow Blaze changed the vandalism warning on his own talk page to make a saracstic joke out of it (note that the vandalism warning was really wrong to begin with); he also did some inappropriate (but frankly, not that terrible) changes to other pages
• After some back-and-forth, Shadow Blaze is banned, and his repeated requests to be unblocked are denied in a language that he clearly did not understand

Again, I'm not saying that any admin did anything wrong intentionally. But in my opinion, great injustice was done to Shadow Blaze. Instead of a warm welcome and an apology for the removal of his edits, he got a rubber-stamp vandalism warning just because he accidentally blanked a page before saving the page with the proper text. All his edits were destroyed, and no explanation for that was given (the correct explanation would have been "Riana used an anti-vandal bot that is not perfect, and Riana didn't bother to manually check the history of the changes that the bot reverted).

I have no relationship with Shadow Blaze whatsoever, never seen or heard of him until today. But I request your kind attention in fixing this injustice. I recommend that despite inappropriate behavior on the part of Shadow Blaze, you apologize to him for the loss of his edits from 21 October, 2007. And explain to him that the whole debacle was started from a misunderstanding due to the AV bot reacting too fast to recent changes. I know that you probably will never get an apology from Shadow Blaze himself for his wrongful "revenge" behavior, but the point of being an admin is being able to apologize for one's and one's colleagues mistakes, even when the other side isn't willing to apologize for theirs.

I belive that it is the admins' duty to speak the language of the contributors, not the other way round. Blaming a contributor because he did not understand some legalistic language of wikipedia policies is not right. If there's any way at all to keep communication with the contributor going, it is, IMO, the responsibility of an admin to do so. We cannot assume every contributor is capable of a court-of-law level of argument.

Sincere regards. Mmoroz (talk) 01:55, 9 May 2008 (UTC) (I'm an admin of a small gaming wikia.)

(copying your reply verbatim)

Please take your request to WP:ANI or email it to "unblock-en-l@lists.wikimedia.org" MBisanz 07:10, 9 May 2008 (UTC)

Thank you for your message. I only wanted to bring to your attention what I perceived as an injustice in which you unwittingly played a part. It is up to you whether or not you agree, and what action, if any, you wish to take. My feeble attempt to fix one small injustice ends here: I have neither time nor interest to take any further action. This is off my conscience now. Best of luck in your work. Mmoroz (talk) 11:04, 9 May 2008 (UTC)

P.S. I read some more about various wikipedia issues, and realized that I was far too idealistic. Please ignore my earlier appeals to admin duties, etc. I now understand that wikipedia admins don't have the time to hand-hold easily angered users, or else no useful work would ever be done on wikipedia. I come from a background of a very small wikia community, and the complexities of wikipedia are far beyond anything I could imagine. Again, sorry for making rather presumptuous comments earlier. Feel free to remove this whole thread -- I would, but not sure whether I'm supposed to be deleting resolved issues from other people's talk pages. All best, Mmoroz (talk) 11:43, 9 May 2008 (UTC)

RE:IP-block-exempt

Well, ignoring the whole WP:AGF rant that I could give, I shall answer you. When the accountcreator rights was created, I went to give my alternate account that right and saw the new user right IP-block-exempt. From what I read about it, it was a right that my admin account already has, which is editing through an IP block, thus giving it to my alternate account was not a problem at all. Now I edit at a university often, and I figured that that IP may be blocked one of these days and being able to edit through my alternate account would be nice even if the IP was blocked. Now I have no clue how it "looks rather questionable for an admin to be giving another known account of their's a right that would permit it to evade autoblocking." Its a known account of mine, so if it does stupid stuff you know where to look. It is nothing that my admin account cant do. I mean if I am missing something here, please do enlighten me, but from what I understand, it is the same thing as editing with my admin account. Also, MBisanz, I see you around a lot and respect your opinion here, but in the future, just ask me for an explanation, the little undertone that I am doing something on wrong kind of offended me. Hope this explains, and jeez if it really matters Ill remove it. It isnt that important to me. « Gonzo fan2007 (talk ♦ contribs) @ 04:10, 9 May 2008 (UTC)

I still really don't get your reasoning. If I had abusive socks and my IP was autoblocked, would I not be able to still edit through my admin account? And I don't get this comment "And if someone isn't currently hitting a rangeblock, keeping them unflagged will keep the userright's list smaller and more monitorable." I still really don't see why its that big of a deal, but if your this crazy about it, then feel free to remove it. I don't care. « Gonzo fan2007 (talk ♦ contribs) @ 04:30, 9 May 2008 (UTC)

Yeah, I mean I understand the admin socking thing with recent events taken into account, but you can be the first to block me if you ever see a disruptive edit from any of my accounts :) Hah, personally I didn't know how recent that right started, and that there are only 4 accounts that have it. Im going to remove it, Ill probably never need anyway. Thanks for the chat ;-) Cheers, « Gonzo fan2007 (talk ♦ contribs) @ 04:46, 9 May 2008 (UTC)

Playing with scalpels

Sorry :} -- Avi (talk) 05:16, 9 May 2008 (UTC)

Applications/Enforcement of Username Policy

Hi MBisanz, could you please explain to me why you blocked Atlantichurricanecenter. --SmokeyJoe (talk) 09:09, 9 May 2008 (UTC)

Thanks. I am wishing that we could do these things more nicely, but counterbalanced with not macking administration more difficult. I imaging that asking for every such block to be peronally explained might be too burdonsome, especially considering that many such accounts are test accounts, alternative accounts or even vandalism-only accounts. However a few will be newbie good faith. What would you think of having a more gently written template, even going so far as to allude to a likelihood of the template slapper having made a mistake, and offering the user the "right" to have their case discussed, probably at WP:RFCN. --SmokeyJoe (talk) 01:10, 10 May 2008 (UTC)

Coren bot

Please can you get Coren Bot to stop taggin my new Burmese articles as copies. Its driving me up the wall getting bot messages twice a minute. I've devised a way to get two articles a minute onto here, Burma at present which has 38,000 places so far I am about 1/38 the way through. I'm still certain the articles could be generated automatically from maplandia though ♦Blofeld of SPECTRE♦ 13:34, 9 May 2008 (UTC)

LOL. Thanks for your help anyway. According to Sadamelik I became public enemy #1 with 82 articles coren attacked. Quite suiting for a leading bald evil villain huh? Well I'm making steady progress through countries. I'm just about to start the Districts of Laos. Once this is done district templates with towns and villages etc will be drawn up like I have done for Template:Chipwi Township in Burma etc. If you take a look at the Chipw template, there are 18 townships like that in Kachin State alone. Then there are 14 states/divisions of Burma many of them larger than this!! And that just Burma! I started developing some areas of Africa in detail too like Togo and Central Africa Republic. Structually district/provincial articles are extremely important to building geographical content on here and enhancing coverage and focus evenly globally. I remain confident that it is possible but will require serious manpower or botpower to achieve. ♦Blofeld of SPECTRE♦ 16:00, 9 May 2008 (UTC)

I hope we can find something eventually too. Basically I wish I had the ability to bot ten articles like Tsawlang a minute and get every country covered like so. Given time I'm certain more info will become available and wikipedia will become outrageously developed beyond belief! ♦Blofeld of SPECTRE♦ 16:05, 9 May 2008 (UTC)

We can use Maplandia as a source for these things. This is a TOP PRIORITY, and I hope you can write ourselves a bot. I don't know anything about such things but I would love to be able to stop mass creating stubs. I'm an Editorofthewiki 21:40, 12 May 2008 (UTC)

PIO's back

Hi Matt, just to let you know that PIO is back, editing today as 151.67.84.100. He's got a rotating IP set up, having previously been seen (for example) as 151.67.85.112, 151.67.84.93 and 151.67.84.199. Not sure there's much we can do about it, given that it's a dynamic IP, but I thought I'd let you know. Many thanks, AlasdairGreen27 (talk) 16:09, 9 May 2008 (UTC)

RFA

Thanks; I'm flattered. But so far I haven't needed the tools, and I really don't have time - given the other things I want to do for Misplaced Pages - to add admin tasks to what I'm working on. If things change, I'll get back to you. -- John Broughton (♫♫) 17:46, 9 May 2008 (UTC)

Re:userpage

The assaults appear to have stopped. If you look here you can see there were two editors that continued to place the tag. These two users were in a now closed case of confirmed sock puppeting so it was really just one user trying to place the tag. I am not terribly concerned with editing my user page as I am with being a target terribly disturbing rants like this one which also appears on Plate King's talk page who happens to be blocked also in connection with the socks who were tagging me. Libro0 (talk) 01:35, 10 May 2008 (UTC)

Appreciated. Libro0 (talk) 01:38, 10 May 2008 (UTC)

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IP exempt

There's a log? Thanks for telling me!  :-) Sam Korn 21:03, 10 May 2008 (UTC)

Re: Ahem

I left a note on the talk page explaining things and re-reverted. Hopefully that will help some, although I'll keep an eye on the article for a time. Hersfold 00:28, 11 May 2008 (UTC)

ANI thread pertaining to participants in the Yarrow mediation

David in DC opened this thread: WP:ANI#Harrassment by User:John celona regarding allegations of sockpuppetry that John has made about David and jkp212. I thought you should know about it in case you didn't already. Aleta 04:15, 11 May 2008 (UTC)

Misplaced Pages:Lectures time

Yeah, we're posting on time for once (40 minutes early). Todays lecture is by Vassyana (an expert mediator), who will be talking about how to deal with conflicts, whether you are a mediator or not. Hope to see you there! --Kim Bruning (talk) 14:15, 11 May 2008 (UTC)

Kayani (tribe)

The Tariqsaeed007 has been adding the same unreferenced material as Javd20706 when you protected this page on 29 April 2008. May be they are same person with different user name. Can you please again protect the page. Thanks. Misaq Rabab (talk) 14:50, 11 May 2008 (UTC)

Template:Oldprodfull

Hello again, MBisanz ...

I would like to add {{Oldprodfull}} to the very end of the table at Misplaced Pages:Template messages/Deletion#Deletion tools, but I'm reluctant to be that bold ... any suggestions?

Happy Editing! — 72.75.78.69 (talk · contribs) _{17:16, 11 May 2008 (UTC)}

Thnx for adding it ... I'm in one of those transition phases between cycles, and didn't trust my own judgment, so I figured it would be better to let Some Other Editor be WP:BOLD regarding this edit. :-) Happy Editing! — 72.75.78.69 (talk · contribs) _{10:05, 12 May 2008 (UTC)}

Just to say hai

Tinucherian has smiled at you! Smiles promote WikiLove and hopefully this one has made your day better. Spread the WikiLove by smiling at someone else, whether it be someone you have had disagreements with in the past or a good friend or a possibly new friend. Cheers, and happy editing!
Smile at others by adding {{subst:Smile}} to their talk page with a friendly message.

Have a great day ! -- TinuCherian - 10:19, 12 May 2008 (UTC)

Thanks

I was just going to leave it, it was no harm done but i saw more and more page move vandalism and i just felt i couldn't just sit here and watch anymore. Just trying to do my bit to help out and deal with the menace. Thanks and Happy Wikipeding. Roadrunnerz45 11:37, 12 May 2008 (UTC)

Chat

Could you add {{pp-protect|small=yes}} and the disclaimer seen here to the page? Cheers, Paul Yeratz (talk) 12:45, 12 May 2008 (UTC)

{{pp-protected}}, even. Paul Yeratz (talk) 12:56, 12 May 2008 (UTC)

Rfb participation thanks

Hello, Matthew (did I get it right this time ;) ).

I wanted to personally thank you for taking part in the project-wide discussions regarding my candidacy for bureaucratship. After bureaucratic discussion, the bureaucrats decided that there was sufficient significant and varied opposition to my candidacy, and thus no consensus to promote. Although personally disappointed, I both understand and respect their decision, especially in light of historical conservatism the project has had when selecting its bureaucrats. I also wanted to thank you for your detailed and provocative questions that helped people better understand both the issues and my opinions on them. If you have any further suggestions or comments as to how you think I could help the project, please let me know. Once again, thank you for your support, and good luck with the BAG! -- Avi (talk) 18:17, 12 May 2008 (UTC)

User:SimpsonsFan08

Hello I have a question Why was User:SimpsonsFan08 bloced indefinitly if he has already had a 71 hour block?  :) Save The Humans:) 20:11, 12 May 2008 (UTC)

but Wasnt that what the first block was for?  :) Save The Humans:) 20:17, 12 May 2008 (UTC)

Ok. Thanks. Just thought it was one incident.  :) Save The Humans:) 20:20, 12 May 2008 (UTC)

Check this out: see the date of last unblock request. Then look at this. Enigma 20:07, 13 May 2008 (UTC)

Then there's also the fact that both liked to welcome people, and this and that, which explains why Save The Humans is interested. Enigma 20:12, 13 May 2008 (UTC)

bump. ;) Enigma 20:47, 14 May 2008 (UTC)

Thanks From Romliker

Thanks for granting my unblock ... it was supposed to expire on the 11th, then the 12th and now the thirteenth ... I suspected that he was renewing the block each time it expired (Romliker (talk) 21:13, 12 May 2008 (UTC))

Well thanks anyways (Romliker (talk) 21:16, 12 May 2008 (UTC))

Misplaced Pages:Bot_requests#Archive_bot_for_Wikipedia:Editor_review

Could you please comment on how to program an archival bot for Misplaced Pages:Editor review that is both feasible and advisable? My inclination is to keep the current system, i.e. alphabetical order, with the date of the first edit to the page noted. I am willing to sacrifice either of these points if it makes the bot operator's job easier. In other words, we could forget about alphabetical order and archive by month, or we could simply not bother to note the date of each individual request. I am posting this message to several users active at Editor Review to solicit opinions. Shalom (Hello • Peace) 03:53, 13 May 2008 (UTC)

That template

It's a template intended for non-admins who are vandal fighters and would like to post a notice to vandals after a level 4 warning. All the non-admins can do is report, and sometimes admins who check out the vandal report fail to close when they misunderstand the history. An extra warning notice would help them to see at a glance how much vandalism has been going on. Those errors should not happen, but during a heavy vandal fighting period, I saw far too many errors like that happen.

I'd have to look back through my edit history to find all of the discussions that went on over that template. A very slight majority favored it (including a clear majority of non-admins who participated in the discussions), but those who opposed it were pretty vehement in their opposition, citing past discussions over proposed templates which I personally don't think were the same thing. So it remains in my userspace. Doczilla _STOMP! 08:06, 13 May 2008 (UTC)

Thanks for asking. Doczilla _STOMP! 08:09, 13 May 2008 (UTC)

secret pages from indef blocked user

Can you delete the following pages made by User:ShakespearesZombie right before you blocked him? He was attempting to create "secret pages" for other editors to find, or something.

• User:ShakespearesZombie/??
• User:ShakespearesZombie/££
• User:ShakespearesZombie/*~@&%$
• User:ShakespearesZombie/Secret_page
• User_talk:72.71.79.13 (created by him)
• User:ShakespearesZombie/Signatures
• User:ShakespearesZombie/Fire
• User:ShakespearesZombie/Gallery
• User:ShakespearesZombie/Vandalism

I think that's all --Enric Naval (talk) 08:54, 13 May 2008 (UTC)

Not at all :) --Enric Naval (talk) 09:01, 13 May 2008 (UTC)

GeoBot

There is now a new proposal for a Bot to be programmed but using Maplandia this time rather than falling rain. It uses google maps which are a reliable source and the site claims to be the most comprehenive and up to date location gazetteer on the web and I acknowledge that they are too. Given the extreme simplicity of the article creating procedure I am certain the process could be speedied up ten times faster and bot the content of whole countries onto wikipedia. What my goal to be eventually is to have a full world gazetteer evenly across the planet (2 million articles) but to have half decent encyclopedia articles on all of them. This for me is a MUST to lay as a foundation towards achieving this ♦Blofeld of SPECTRE♦

Yes if you visit Maplandia gazetteer you'll see how it is comprehensively organized and given the way places are organized on there by region and district getting abot to gneerate articles reading this organization is very achievable I think. The problem is there seems to be a distinct lack of advanced computer programmers who can do such a thing on here. ♦Blofeld of SPECTRE♦ 15:42, 13 May 2008 (UTC)

WBOSITG's RfA

Hello MBisanz, I'd like to take this opportunity to thank you for your participation in my RfA which was passed with a final tally of 114/10/4. I'm both shocked and honoured to gain so much support from users whom I admire and trust, and I hope I can avoid breaking that backing by being the best administrator I possibly can. I will take on board the opposition's comments and I hope to improve over the coming months and years. Once again, thank you! weburiedoursecretsinthegarden 20:28, 13 May 2008 (UTC)

Checkuser

Where is the Checkuser page for User:ShakespearesZombie. I can't find it. - DiligentTerrier (and friends) 20:45, 13 May 2008 (UTC)

My RfA

Hi MBisanz; I wanted to say thank you for supporting my request for adminship, which passed with 100 supports, 0 opposes and 1 neutral. I wanted to get round everybody individually, even though it's considered by some to be spam (which... I suppose it is! but anyway. :)). It means a lot to me that the community has placed its trust in my ability to use the extra buttons, and I only hope I can live up to its expectations. If you need anything, or notice something that bothers you, don't hesitate to let me know. Thanks again, PeterSymonds | talk 22:03, 13 May 2008 (UTC)

Argh

Protection conflicts are so annoying, aren't they? :) Acalamari 20:46, 14 May 2008 (UTC)

Ah well, I restored your time anyway: I don't want the appearance of a wheel war on that article. :) Acalamari 20:50, 14 May 2008 (UTC)

Bates method

Hello MBisanz. I saw you were involved in mediating a previous dispute at Bates method. The article has improved a lot since then, imho; however, the top has been heavily tagged since March. See this discussion. If you have time to look at this and contribute your opinion, it would be appreciated. Note the dispute about the external links which stemmed from this. Also, the short Eye exercises article is worth looking at. PSWG1920 (talk) 00:47, 15 May 2008 (UTC)

MickMacNee

Hi Matt. I saw this and think you went well overboard here. Quite apart from the whole don't-template-the-regulars thing, the wisest way to solve a situation involving a personal attack is not by threats but by reasoned discussion. An indefinite block is a massive over-reaction in the first -- or even second -- instance. The text was plainly not intended to be a personal attack and intentions are very important. While I totally agree that the post was out of order, I strongly feel the reaction was disproportionate. Sam Korn 08:55, 15 May 2008 (UTC)

I wasn't aware of this precise history. In light of it, I would probably have just removed the comment and posted a comment on his talk page mentioning this and warning to ensure that it doesn't happen again. I am concerned about how often blocking (or a threat of blocking) is the first resort when there is a problem like this. Sam Korn 12:00, 15 May 2008 (UTC)

I am quite sure an apology isn't necessary! Sam Korn 08:10, 16 May 2008 (UTC)

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User:Red4tribe evading block via sockpuppetry (again)

Hi. I believe that User:Red4tribe is evading his two week ban by reverting at Italian Empire whilst logged out. The Red Hat of Pat Ferrick 02:23, 16 May 2008 (UTC)

No orange bar?

Well, I can fix that problem :p Nakon 07:57, 16 May 2008 (UTC)

{{checkuserblock}} on Betacommand

MBisanz, unless I'm missing something, your block on Betacommand is not a "checkuser block" in the sense of that template. It is a normal block made (as far as I know) on your own authority as a normal admin, and has no more and no less authority than any other. It is based on a checkuser result (which I don't dispute). But that's a different thing. Authoritative checkuser blocks are those that are made by a checkuser on the basis of confidential CU information whose import is not apparent to normal admins. This doesn't seem to be the case here. Please remove that template, as it implies a level of permanence and authority to your block which it doesn't merit. Fut.Perf. ☼ 08:18, 16 May 2008 (UTC)

I assert no permanence or additional authority beyond my normal administrator discretion. However, a Checkuser did provide additional data beyond what would normally be indicated and per that information I have used the template. Please contact a checkuser for more details. MBisanz 08:32, 16 May 2008 (UTC)

Huh ??

Did something happen that dis-includes me from being a part of this mediation process ? I could not help but notice that there was no space allowed for me to present my point of view as there was for the others. I would like to continue to be included as a matter of courtesy even though I stated that I I am very likely to go along with the consensus of the others. I did not notice that I had lost my space to participate in the pre discusion until after I made that statement before I noticed that I was not included. So please re-include me if you will and I will try to keep up. If I fail to do so please feel free to bypass me on an issue to issue basis. I would just like to feel included as much as possible unless it is highly impracticable . :Albion moonlight (talk) 08:58, 16 May 2008 (UTC)

I went over to the aforementioned section to try and determine if I had missed the boat by not including myself. I stopped when I realized that I know nothing about the color coding, so I am still concluding that I was not included as opposed to the possible scenario that I did not include myself.

Albion moonlight (talk) 09:35, 16 May 2008 (UTC)

User:Future Perfect at Sunrise's selective steps toward the elimination of sockpuppetry

Hello. Re User:Future Perfect at Sunrise's pleas to ublock User:Betacommand, I thought you might be interested in checking my and User:Elampon's talk-pages and FPaS sockpuppetry accusations. I would still be indefinetly blocked just because I uttered a question. Regards. ktr (talk) 10:53, 16 May 2008 (UTC)