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RfCU case

Please see my comments regarding Mike there before releasing any information :) Cheers, Daniel (talk) 01:51, 1 October 2008 (UTC)

Daniel, I've just commented on that on ANI just now ... - Alison ^❤ 01:53, 1 October 2008 (UTC)

Do it Alison. Human life trumps wikipedia rule bullshit, and you know it. Do it. Keeper ǀ 76 02:30, 1 October 2008 (UTC)

Thanks for contacting Mike and getting his explicit approval (he emailed me just before you posted saying you had contacted him). For whatever reason he felt he should be contacted before any release at all was made, and I was simply the messenger; I hope you can appreciate my role was simply that, and not anti-yourself or similar. Daniel (talk) 03:34, 1 October 2008 (UTC)

'sokay, Daniel. I appreciate where you're coming from on this one and yes, that stuff is important. Fortunately, though, I'm in regular contact with Mike and happened to have his cell handy. Of course, this wouldn't be available to just anyone, so ... well, it was kinda lucky, I guess. Mike's take on this was that he was confused by your email as it appeared to him that you were requesting release of privacy-related data to an arbitrary third-party, and he wasn't cool with that. I pointed out that I intended to go to the police, and the police only and he was perfectly fine with my doing that.

Irish Wikipedia

Hello, I see you are active on the Irish Wikipedia. I was considering going there myself eventually - these days I'm learning the Irish language in my spare time (wow, do I ever need a hobby, eh?). Is there any way somebody with little knowledge of the language can become an active contributor there? Master&Expert (talk) 21:12, 21 September 2008 (UTC)

Gawiki technical dictionary

I've been translating an article and a template (and hoping to do more) at gawiki. I was wondering if you know whether gawiki has a technical dictionary of sorts — my conversational Irish is fine, but finding the technical terms for "template", "stub", "sysop", etc. is time-consuming. Stifle (talk) 09:36, 24 September 2008 (UTC)

By the way, I've opened a translation queue for en to ga (or other intersections of languages I speak). Stifle (talk) 10:37, 24 September 2008 (UTC)

I've moved this to the bottom because you seem to have missed it. Understandable, given your popularity ;) Stifle (talk) 11:01, 25 September 2008 (UTC)

I owe you an answer on this one. Will get back to you in the morning .... - Alison ^❤ 09:49, 30 September 2008 (UTC)

Exercising caution

I don't agree I'm pushing a point-of-view, and I've gone into great detail explaining why previously. With you I reckon it was mostly at Talk:Garda Síochána. I haven't asserted Indymedia sources; I reverted for other reasons. I will try to exercise caution, though.

Lapsed Pacifist (talk) 17:22, 7 October 2008 (UTC)

Mattkachu rangeblock

Would rangeblocks that affect the following addresses be viable?

• 141.117.173.117 (talk · contribs)
• 141.117.232.31 (talk · contribs)
• 141.117.173.30 (talk · contribs)

The reason I ask is because this is all block evasion by User:Mattkachu, whom was blocked indefinitely after a checkuser caught him socking to re-add the same hoax information the IPs are adding to Witchcraft, and recently he's been appearing rather often.-Jéské ^{(v^_^v Kacheek!)} 00:16, 8 October 2008 (UTC)

Vietnam on Veropedia

Still has those errors...YellowMonkey (click here to choose Australia's next top model) 06:14, 9 October 2008 (UTC)

I was just thinking of that the other day when I clicked on your userpage and saw all the GA/FA stars. I need to sort that :/ - Alison ^❤ 06:17, 9 October 2008 (UTC)

two emails have been sent

Hi Alison, I sent you two emails, could you please let me know what is your decision. Thanks, Alecca1 —Preceding unsigned comment added by Alecca1 (talk • contribs) 16:07, 9 October 2008 (UTC)

Hi Alison, Sorry about the signature, I'm new. Alecca1 (talk) 19:01, 9 October 2008 (UTC)

Lapsed Pacifist

Hi Alison. I've got most of the Shell to Sea-related articles on my watchlist (after I edited them all for NPOV and weasel words and such). Anyway, User:Lapsed Pacifist continuously reverts all my changes (along with accusations of white-washing, blanking etc). The initial edits were to make the language neutral, and if I have blanked sections, I have a proper reason for doing so. He has an admitted WP:COI (being involved in the campaign), but nothing happened when I brought it up on the COI noticeboard. I've also explained it to him on his talk page (as I see you have) with no result, and I've tried to reason with him on several talk pages, also with no result, so I've given up engaging him. I'm reverting all of his changes at the moment... My question is: as the COI noticeboard didn't have any effect, what's the next step? Thanks! Fin©™ 17:21, 10 October 2008 (UTC)

rollback criteria

Out of interest for a friend, I was wondering what your criteria are to give someone roll back i.e. would you do if they are lovely, mature and block-free, but haven't made a huge number of edits? Sticky Parkin 22:09, 10 October 2008 (UTC)

Apology

Hi. Sorry for any trouble I seem to have caused. I'll be keeping my nose clean from now on Mustycrusty (talk) 09:51, 11 October 2008 (UTC)

Hey there. That's okay. What you did was technically wrong; using multiple accounts to avoid scrutiny, but so long as you stick to one account and not pretend to be someone else, you'll be fine - Alison ^❤ 03:59, 14 October 2008 (UTC)

CU

Are The Real When In Rome (talk · contribs) and When In Rome Original Member Site (talk · contribs) one and the same? Thanks in advance. -Jéské ^{(v^_^v Kacheek!)} 20:16, 11 October 2008 (UTC)

Yes they are. Also Evilcno1 (talk · contribs), spamming the same stuff - Alison ^❤ 06:48, 12 October 2008 (UTC)

CU 2

Шїкіредїа_іѕ_соммциіѕм (talk · contribs) - claims to have an army of sockpuppets via abusing SUL. -Jéské ^{(v^_^v Kacheek!)} 00:16, 12 October 2008 (UTC)

Blocked about another dozen just now. Good catch - Alison ^❤ 06:45, 12 October 2008 (UTC)

Being careful

Alison, you're not outdoing yourself on the impartiality front here. You write on my talk page that I'm edit-warring, and seemingly mine alone. I don't see any similar warning on 9x5's page, nor Djegan's, nor Snappy56's, nor Garda40's. Why not? I've read WP:COI, and remain cautious. I certainly dispute that I'm campaigning aggresively, unlike say, editors who whitewash, delete relevant links, create sockpuppets, etc. As for editing user talk pages, what gives? I ask a user if they're a sockpuppet. They delete the question. You block the user for being a sockpuppet. What's the problem? If editors refuse to back up their edits on talk pages, how can you call that consensus? Have you even read the relevant talk pages recently? You certainly haven't contributed to them; Talk:Garda Síochána comes to mind as one instance where I'm still waiting for a response from you. I've had an Rfc before, I was happy with how it went (see http://wiki.riteme.site/wiki/Wikipedia:Requests_for_comment/Lapsed_Pacifist).

Lapsed Pacifist (talk) 15:22, 12 October 2008 (UTC)

And how is this:

Your choice of topics

Mustycrusty (talk, contributions) edited only Shell to Sea-related articles, but caught a lot of flak for vandalism and disappeared on the 20th of September. Three days later, you arrive, and edit S2S-related articles almost exclusively, but with a little more subtlety. Well, not that much more, in fairness. Anything you'd like to say on the matter?

Lapsed Pacifist (talk) 10:19, 7 October 2008 (UTC)

LP: After reviewing your history on Wikipedia which shows a pattern of unreasonable and sometimes aggressive behaviour and as suggested by guidelines I won't be engaging you in conversation. Might I remind you of WP:ETIQ, WP:AGF, WP:NEWBIE, WP:NVC, WP:NPA, WP:NOTBATTLEGROUND, I will shortly be removing this post from my talk page Greenlightgo (talk) 13:12, 7 October 2008 (UTC)

That's a less than satisfactory answer. I disagree with your assessment of my history on Wikipedia, but that's by the way, because yours is fast becoming far more interesting to me. Have you realised that 40% of your edits are reversions of my edits? Have you ever edited under another username? Surely you understand why my curiosity has been piqued?

Lapsed Pacifist (talk) 13:20, 7 October 2008 (UTC)

so offensive to you? I ask a sockpuppet are they a sockpuppet. You then block them for being a sockpuppet. What's the big deal?

Lapsed Pacifist (talk) 15:50, 12 October 2008 (UTC)

I'm not sure of the correct ettiquette, but...

Yo Alison, I see you handled some of the checkusering of Aldrich Hanssen (talk · contribs). I know there are official procedures to go through and it's bad form to fish and so on, but if you could have a look at some of the contributors to the Non-voting and Omniarchy articles I suspect there may be socks of the same individual lurking. Lá shona duit, the skomorokh 16:27, 12 October 2008 (UTC)

Agus leatsa freisin :) I took a quick peek and he doesn't seem to be around at all right now, sorry - Alison ^❤ 03:52, 14 October 2008 (UTC)

Could you look at this?

We currently have consensus, on the Kevin Barry article, based on the discussion here. This article is currently subject to Wikipedia:Requests_for_arbitration/The_Troubles#Final_remedies_for_AE_case, as laid out during a previous WP:AE case that closed October 05, 2008. This places all editors on a WP:1RR and notice of it has been posted on the article talk page here. Since it introduction one editor has tried to avoid sanctions by using different IP addresses. I have listed some which I consider to be the same editor. A review of the Article history here will show a pattern of persistent disruption since August 2007.

This editor 89.100.135.172 began editing in August 2007 followed by 87.198.141.22 in addition to this WP:SPA User:Dannylookup [1] always making the same edit. 87.198.141.22 then blanked the page a number of times. 87.198.141.98 started and also 87.198.141.98 blanked the page. Then 87.198.228.246 started, followed by 83.70.118.185 either inserting the same information of blanking the page. This was followed by 213.79.35.224 this IP. Then another IP 87.198.252.66 doing the exact same thing. Likewise this IP 87.232.1.94, and this 87.198.252.179 and this 86.43.66.206 and now this 87.198.228.214

Choice edits: [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8] edit summary? [9] [10] [11] [12] [13] [14] [15] [16]

Thanks. --Domer48_'fenian' 18:51, 13 October 2008 (UTC)

Domer-I'm away from my computer right now but I'll get to this latr today. On the phone here - Alison ^❤ 19:09, 13 October 2008 (UTC)

No worries, thanks, --Domer48_'fenian' 19:48, 13 October 2008 (UTC)

Domer - I took a look over there and noticed that Foz has fully protected the page now as being subject to a content dispute. I left a comment on the talk page as to their behaviour as I see it. I'm not entirely sure it's a 'content dispute', per se, and not just some single disruptor who's warring against clear consensus. I'll check in with Foz later tonight - Alison ^❤ 03:58, 14 October 2008 (UTC)

User:RafaelRGarcia

Hey Alison. I've blocked User:RafaelRGarcia twice in the last two days for BLP violations and edit warring. Now it seems he may have been socking from User:128.253.170.108. Since this may be quickly getting out of hand, could you take a look if you have time? Thanks, Gwen Gale (talk) 19:16, 13 October 2008 (UTC)

Gwen, I'm sorry but the edit-warring he's doing right now doesn't warrant my connecting his username to an IP address, so I won't comment as to the one above. Sorry about that - Alison ^❤ 03:37, 14 October 2008 (UTC)

Understood, thanks Alison! Gwen Gale (talk) 09:39, 14 October 2008 (UTC)

MascotGuy

When you get the chance and you're bored (yeah, right!), could you look into the IP of the latest MascotGuy accounts for October and see if his IP has stabilized into something blockable? I believe that he changes IPs a lot and uses a large ISP that would not be very blockable, but maybe times have changed and he's using something more fixed. Thanks! =D -- Gogo Dodo (talk) 21:38, 13 October 2008 (UTC)

I just blocked a previously blocked IP. That should hopefully help a lot - Alison ^❤ 04:05, 14 October 2008 (UTC)

Excellent! Thank you. I sent you a follow-up email about this. I guess I stacked up two emails with you now. =) -- Gogo Dodo (talk) 06:55, 14 October 2008 (UTC)

The block didn't last long, unfortunately. Back as Campfire Guy (talk · contribs). -- Gogo Dodo (talk) 05:24, 18 October 2008 (UTC)

Looks like Luna's already dealt with it, and the new sockies - Alison ^❤ 05:46, 18 October 2008 (UTC)

Ah, so I see. I had forgotten that Luna was a CU now. Never mind. =) Hope you're having a good break. -- Gogo Dodo (talk) 05:55, 18 October 2008 (UTC)

You were right after all

User:N-C7. NawlinWiki (talk) 16:15, 14 October 2008 (UTC)

Meh! Needless to say, it's unlikely to be the real WoW - Alison ^❤ 19:37, 14 October 2008 (UTC)

WP:CHU Sockfarm

Cara Speicher (talk · contribs), Mr. Scott Ehlen (talk · contribs), Michael Mathis (talk · contribs), Feltic Felton (talk · contribs),Michael Collin Mathis (talk · contribs) - all appear to be a sockfarm based on username-change requests, and while I don't think there's a reason to run a check because their contribs aren't damning, a positive result could allow us to put a kibosh on all the username-change requests they're putting in (which, frankly, were flooding the page). -Jéské ^{(v^_^v Kacheek!)} 17:56, 14 October 2008 (UTC)

Jéské - there are actually dozens of them there,  Confirmed as being the one editor. I've hardblocked a school IP now as a result. It's the same guy as Anthony Alda (talk · contribs) above, BTW. You might want to mention this over at CHU, too. 'Crats are overworked as it is :) - Alison ^❤ 19:34, 14 October 2008 (UTC)

Oh, and BTW, all of the socks are using the CHU process to obtain names related to their teachers at school. Epic lulz, etc :p - Alison ^❤ 19:36, 14 October 2008 (UTC)

new AE report on UDR

Hey Allie, you watching the new AE report? Could use some more eyes at that AE report and the related article (if you're not screamingly busy) SirFozzie (talk) 20:38, 14 October 2008 (UTC)

Oh, man! Did you see my new wikibreak message above?? :-) I'll toddle over there and take a look later. I've emails here from the main players, too (sorry, guys!) but I'm flat-out working right now. As an aside, check out the announcements from my employer today to find out why I've been off-wiki so much lately ;) - Alison ^❤ 20:40, 14 October 2008 (UTC)

Oopsie! SOwwee! (hides). and as for the new announcements.. NEATO... we still have to figure out how to do that thing we keep talking about with the neato toys, right? :D SirFozzie (talk) 20:43, 14 October 2008 (UTC)

Range block

Would you mind taking a look at User talk:Jpkole? Thank you, Tiptoety ^talk 04:16, 15 October 2008 (UTC)

Seems like collateral damage to me. I gave them block exemption. --Deskana (talk) 04:28, 15 October 2008 (UTC)

Yep, super! Thanks, Deskana (and nice to see you back active :) ) - Alison ^❤ 04:30, 15 October 2008 (UTC)

O_O I get TWO CheckUsers handling MY request... heh.. I am moving up in the world. :D Tiptoety ^talk 04:31, 15 October 2008 (UTC)

Stick around - Thatcher will be along in a minute :-D - Alison ^❤ 04:33, 15 October 2008 (UTC)

YOu get something even better.. ME! (wait.. what? I'm NOT better?.......... MEANIES!) (sulks off) SirFozzie (talk) 04:35, 15 October 2008 (UTC)

Nice to see you too, my Queen. Queen works too, I guess. (read checkuser-l) --Deskana (talk) 04:37, 15 October 2008 (UTC)

lol - I just read it :) - Alison ^❤ 04:50, 15 October 2008 (UTC)

Another brah?

FFDiempredome (talk · contribs) - jumped in on the lone JL thread currently up at WP:Village pump (policy) and reads like Latore. I've got a hammer if you've a stake. -Jéské ^{(v^_^v Kacheek!)} 06:30, 15 October 2008 (UTC)

Hammer away - that's  Confirmed and while you're at it, can you hammer SoxJohnnyDamon8 (talk · contribs) with the same stake? - Alison ^❤ 06:47, 15 October 2008 (UTC)

Done, demons exorcised, but who knows when he's gonna pull another Erinyes out of his ass... -Jéské ^{(v^_^v Kacheek!)} 08:28, 15 October 2008 (UTC)

Stalker (again)

Alison, I know that you are on break, and I do not wish to impose on your time, but I feel comfortable coming to you since you have dealt with this matter previously. You may recall that, sometime back, I had a problem with a stalker who serially reverted all my edits. Well, he has returned. I am wondering if a range block is not in order to bring his spree to an end. Thanks for your time. ---RepublicanJacobite_{The'FortyFive'} 14:08, 15 October 2008 (UTC)

Just to rub in in, your comment here, did not have the affect I hoped for, still going against consensus. LOL, --Domer48_'fenian' 17:16, 15 October 2008 (UTC)

Meh! Domer - it's one of those unusual cases that it's okay to semi-protect the page to force the anon IP-hopping editor to the talk page. Nothing else seems to work, so the page is now protected for two weeks. It's pretty much tantamount to disruptive editing as you guys have worked so hard on that stuff, and this editor refuses to communicate. I've semi-protected it for two weeks now - Alison ^❤ 02:36, 16 October 2008 (UTC)

RJ - I took a look and everything's blocked now. If the guy persists, there's a rangeblock I can apply which will stop his using IPs to revert. See how things go and just let me know if he comes back. I'll block him on sight if he's reported here - I won't stand for that behaviour at all - Alison ^❤ 02:51, 16 October 2008 (UTC)

Alison, I appreciate that immensely. Thank you. Of course, the vandal thinks differently... ---RepublicanJacobite_{The'FortyFive'} 03:42, 16 October 2008 (UTC)

He can think what he likes. I just took a good look, and rangeblocking will do just fine :) - Alison ^❤ 03:44, 16 October 2008 (UTC)

That is music to my ears. ;) ---RepublicanJacobite_{The'FortyFive'} 04:05, 16 October 2008 (UTC)

Just point me in the right direction! Giano (talk) 17:22, 15 October 2008 (UTC)

Thanks for that Alison, it should help. --Domer48_'fenian' 10:17, 17 October 2008 (UTC)

Possible User:Bambifan101 sock

I think this one may be another sock of Bambifan101, but he seems to be making more of an effort to be "good" most of the time so harder to tell. Can it be checked?

Moblieisanawesomecity (talk⁺ · tag · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log · CA · CheckUser(log) · investigate · cuwiki)

If it is him, as he has already made another sock account (Iluvbambiandtheteletubbiessomuch (talk⁺ · tag · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log · CA · CheckUser(log) · investigate · cuwiki)), and he continues to redo talk pages and the like, would say he should still be blocked. -- Collectonian (talk · contribs) 00:47, 16 October 2008 (UTC)

Update, Moblie has now admitted to being a Bambifan101 sock[17]. -- Collectonian (talk · contribs) 01:28, 16 October 2008 (UTC)

Hi Collectonian! I've blocked about a dozen of them now, and an IP is long-term blocked. Hope that helps - Alison ^❤ 02:31, 16 October 2008 (UTC)

Thanks again :) -- Collectonian (talk · contribs) 02:32, 16 October 2008 (UTC)

Looks like he has found some new IPs and had learned how to change his IP mid edits. In the last 24 hours or so, he's hit multiple articles with these IPs:

• 68.220.187.243 (talk⁺ · tag · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log · CA · CheckUser(log) · investigate · cuwiki)
• 68.220.187.170 (talk⁺ · tag · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log · CA · CheckUser(log) · investigate · cuwiki)
• 68.220.177.249 (talk⁺ · tag · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log · CA · CheckUser(log) · investigate · cuwiki)
• 70.146.212.195 (talk⁺ · tag · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log · CA · CheckUser(log) · investigate · cuwiki)
• 70.146.254.92 (talk⁺ · tag · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log · CA · CheckUser(log) · investigate · cuwiki)

He flipped between 2 & 3 while editing, and then today between 4 & 5. He also made another named sock Disney's animal kingdom (talk⁺ · tag · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log · CA · CheckUser(log) · investigate · cuwiki)-- Collectonian (talk · contribs) 20:05, 18 October 2008 (UTC)

Re: Email please?

What would you like to ask me? Alex (talk) 01:15, 17 October 2008 (UTC)

I'd like to ask why you've been socking to votestack on AfDs - Alison ^❤ 01:40, 17 October 2008 (UTC)

Like RaNcIdPuNkS (talk · contribs), for example - Alison ^❤ 01:40, 17 October 2008 (UTC)

No... Obviously, I don't recall. Alex (talk) 03:22, 17 October 2008 (UTC)

Well, ok. For example, both accounts voted from the same computer in this and this and this AfD, all voting keep. There's a bunch of other stuff, too. Any comments? - Alison ^❤ 05:14, 17 October 2008 (UTC)

Skype?

Hello Alison, Promethean 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. Go on, smile! Cheers, and happy editing!
Smile at others by adding {{subst:Smile}} to their talk page with a friendly message.

Brandon Teena

Hi, this is still clunky but I think headed in a good direction. Please see the note on the talkpage as well and let me know what you think needs to be addressed ASAP and I'll do what I can. -- Banjeboi 01:25, 18 October 2008 (UTC)

Cool! I'll take a peek over it in the morning here - Alison ^❤ 05:48, 18 October 2008 (UTC)

Semi protected

I semi-protected this page as it was coming under a lot of nasty attack and the IPs were changing. I'll leave you to restore, when you want. Ty 03:35, 18 October 2008 (UTC)

Thanks, Ty. It's a daily occurrence around here ;) - Alison ^❤ 05:47, 18 October 2008 (UTC)

What it is to be popular! Ty 23:06, 18 October 2008 (UTC)

Check your skype   «l| Ψrometheăn ™|l»  (talk) 10:25, 18 October 2008 (UTC)

heh

I just noticed this. From the start, I've tried to keep my userpage unprotected. I even wrote a page detailing my thoughts. But I guess my situation is a bit different now than it was last April. Honestly, I'm glad you protected my page. I don't know why I never did myself.

I suppose it's high time for me to wake up, face reality, and look at the calender. August is over. September has begun. J.delanoy^gabs_adds 03:24, 19 October 2008 (UTC)

Oooh :( I'm sorry. I didn't know you'd a policy on such matters. Feel free to unprot straight away. My own view on that stuff is that while it doesn't bother me a bit if people vandalise my talk page (I rarely even notice these days), it's a major timewaster for the good folks who revert and block, so it's best to just prevent it, really - Alison ^❤ 06:51, 19 October 2008 (UTC)

Stalker (again) (again)

He's back at it. This particular IP has been blocked, but he'll move on to another. ---RepublicanJacobite_{The'FortyFive'} 05:43, 19 October 2008 (UTC)

RJ, I'll see what I can do about it. In the meantime, you now have rollback rights. Given his wikistalking and vandalism, you should feel free to rollback his edits when he goes after you, especially in your own space. Report the IPs here and I or another admin will block them & I can also get a rangeblock on quickish enough - Alison ^❤ 06:21, 19 October 2008 (UTC)

Thank you, Alison. ---RepublicanJacobite_{The'FortyFive'} 13:32, 19 October 2008 (UTC)

• Alison, can I have roll-back too please? PS: Thanks for your help the other time, my wife was mocking me and I quote her: "You're a big man, why is it that another lady had to come to your rescue?". Ah... women, can't live with them, can't live without them. lol Cheers~! ...Dave1185 (talk) 13:57, 19 October 2008 (UTC)

•  Done - have fun! - Alison ^❤ 04:53, 20 October 2008 (UTC)

• Thank you very much, you just made my day~! ;-) ...Dave1185 (talk) 12:50, 20 October 2008 (UTC)

I'm not sure you want to be templated so...

...I'll inform you the "normal" way! A user (not me) has started a discussion about you at AN here. D.M.N. (talk) 17:43, 19 October 2008 (UTC)

That user-in-question (I believe) has been blocked. GoodDay (talk) 17:51, 19 October 2008 (UTC)

Yep, another Grawp bites the dust~! ...Dave1185 (talk) 18:13, 19 October 2008 (UTC)

Thanks, guys. In this case, it's actually the 'grawp-a-like' guy (aka BaT) - Alison ^❤ 18:14, 19 October 2008 (UTC)

Bahahaha, now ive seen it all.   «l| Ψrometheăn ™|l»  (talk) 01:53, 20 October 2008 (UTC)

Who is this guy?

I do remember some thread on ANI about him, but I can't remember who it is. J.delanoy^gabs_adds 01:59, 20 October 2008 (UTC)

And yet you blocked him based on a hunch? I cant see any similar edits to the ones by that IP nor has that ip got any history.....perhaps you are mistaken. Forgive me if your not ;) Alison, feel free to put a notice on User talk:Alison/Editnotice with something like people stalk your talkpage :P  «l| Ψrometheăn ™|l»  (talk) 02:32, 20 October 2008 (UTC)

No, I know he is a sockpuppet. I just can't remember who of. J.delanoy^gabs_adds 02:39, 20 October 2008 (UTC)

Mmk   «l| Ψrometheăn ™|l»  (talk) 02:41, 20 October 2008 (UTC)

To be honest, I'm not sure who he is, and there's nothing behind that IP other than what you see - Alison ^❤ 04:50, 20 October 2008 (UTC)

(I wonder if it is frustrating to think that the center of attention is your talk page, and not... :-)
A clue can be found by randomly clicking links from Category:Megafauna:

• 125.164.168.100
• 125.164.172.51
• 125.164.173.194
• 125.164.177.7
• 125.164.177.12
• 125.164.184.142
• 125.164.190.76

Additions back into September? And you might want to ask Academic Challenger about this revert? As in what suspicions/identities were in mind? Shenme (talk) 05:11, 20 October 2008 (UTC)

Another request from your favorite annoying admin-who-is-the-reason-you-are-employed

I have apparently aroused the wrath of whoever it is that keeps trying to add references to The Game to various articles. His latest incarnations may be seen in the history of my talk page. Can you get rid of him for me? Thanks. J.delanoy^gabs_adds 17:55, 20 October 2008 (UTC)

He's used dozens of socks so far - I checked and softblocked a /22 edu IP range, so that should hold off the socks for a while - Alison ^❤ 18:00, 20 October 2008 (UTC)

And blocked a few accounts, too - Alison ^❤ 18:02, 20 October 2008 (UTC)

Thanks. At first I thought it was just a few isolated incidents, but when he started repeatedly "warning" me for the same article... J.delanoy^gabs_adds 18:09, 20 October 2008 (UTC)

I've since dealt with the police as best I could, though they were pretty-much at sea on the whole matter. Still, they got the information they need to follow it up should they do so, and they can also contact me if needs be. And that's about as good as we can get. Let's leave the policy stuff for another day, but I do think we need to revisit this when we have a so-called "spare moment" :) It's unfair to basically throw this one unto some hapless checkuser who's passing by and have them make the tough call - Alison ^❤ 04:21, 1 October 2008 (UTC)

		The Real Life Barnstar
		For your great work in possibly saving a life today (despite the fiasco on ANI.) Toddst1 (talk) 04:56, 1 October 2008 (UTC)

Thanks, Toddst1 :) That's very kind. I think this might be overstating things a weency bit, but thank you! - Alison ^❤ 06:13, 2 October 2008 (UTC)

Thanks for the exemption

We (JFH78 and Wowbobwow12 [we share the same house and computer, in case you're wondering]) both wish to thank you for granting us the rare privilege of IP block exemption status. We were at our wit's end trying to figure out why we couldn't edit, but you cleared up our problems quickly. Again, thank you! JFH78 (talk) 15:09, 1 October 2008 (UTC)

Einsteindonut's RFCU (early september)

There's a rant from Einsteindonut on the case page, in case you're interested. I dunno what to do with it to be honest :) -- lucasbfr ^talk 16:18, 1 October 2008 (UTC)

Domer

Alison Domer has given an indication that he will let it drop could this be the end of it now, and no more need for further sanctions I'm sure he is feeling very persecuted at the moment when maybe an email a month or so ago might have resolved this. But I am not telling you either how to handle these things as you have tons of experience in situations like this. Thanks for your time. BigDunc^Talk 19:28, 1 October 2008 (UTC)

Thanks Dunc and I take your point on the email :) I've just replied on Domer's talk page so I think this will be the end of it. While we're on the subject, though, I'd like to apologize to you about making assumptions as I did over the past few weeks or so. I was off on a number of matters, IMO. You've been doing some serious work around here and you have been playing by the book with other editors like Thunderer. In fairness, you've not been doing a ton of edit-warring and you're doing your best to work with some of you "adversaries" and that's not an easy job. I just want so say sorry for misjudging you over the last while. I'll try to pay better attention :) - Alison ^❤ 19:45, 1 October 2008 (UTC)

Thanks Alison your comments are appreciated. BigDunc^Talk 20:01, 1 October 2008 (UTC)

Thankyou

Just wanted to drop you a line to say thanks for granting rollback rights to me. Much appreciated. Jonesy (talk) 06:35, 2 October 2008 (UTC)

No problem at all :) - Alison ^❤ 06:36, 2 October 2008 (UTC)

Regarding your checkuser on me

Regarding this - None of those are sockpuppets. Three of them are throwaway accounts that I created because I didn't want to associate my main account with those topics (that's not against the rules afaik). Johnnycashnin, Crazytrain89 and Parmegan all created one topic in the talk pages and replied only to the topics that they created, and that was that. I didn't respond to those topics with any other account name or try to deceive anyone by "agreeing" with myself, and those accounts were created before I was given that warning so they were not an attempt to dodge sanctions or whatever. Enairku was just recently created for Ukraine topics (look at the user page, I publicly said it's the same user as Krawndawg), and Krawndawg is/was my main account, which I've all but given up on. I don't believe it has ever crossed paths with this account. This account was created to edit in war-related articles specifically. You're not going to find any instance of me using these accounts to POV push or edit war or for any other dubious activity. I don't understand where your accusation comes from "A few of them appear to be throwaway accounts for revert-warring on 2008 South Ossetia war" ? I didn't revert war with any of them, I've never even edited in the main South Ossetia war article with any other account than this one. And what is the basis that I'm "possibly" related to the user I was accused of being a sock of?LokiiT (talk) 12:20, 2 October 2008 (UTC)

Why did you pretend you were not aware of the 3rr here [18][19] when you obviously were? And in general, why do you create new accounts to make points on the South Ossetia page? That's exactly what that page doesn't need. Grey Fox (talk) 13:50, 2 October 2008 (UTC)

LokiiT, you used Johnnycashnin and Crazytrain89 to edit the same page (Talk:2008 South Ossetia war) and you used Krawndawg and Enairku to edit the same subject, Enlargement of NATO. Those are impermissible uses of alternate accounts, and once you do that you lose the presumption of good faith. Checkusers are not required to examine every alternate account to determine if perhaps one of them was used for permissible purposes. "Creating one topic" on a talk page is far too narrow an interpretation of the alternate account policies and I doubt you will find any admin willing to sanction that behavior. Thatcher 14:34, 2 October 2008 (UTC)

I didn't use any alternate account to sockpuppet, vandalize, edit war or gain consensus. And like I already said, I made a point of stating that Enairku was Krawndawg because I didn't want anyone accusing me of sockpuppeting. That's not against the rules and I had no bad intentions. LokiiT (talk) 15:34, 2 October 2008 (UTC)

LokiiT, your use of multiple accounts was most certainly unacceptable. Note also that the policy explicitly talks about "evading scrutiny" for one. Also, using them to give impression that there is more support than there is, is another. The talk page of 2008 South Ossetia war is the last place on the project that needs socking of any shape or sort. So, I'm sorry but I'm calling this abuse of multiple accounts, yes - Alison ^❤ 01:02, 3 October 2008 (UTC)

user:Sinbad Barron

Because you are checkuser in this case I am interested to hear if his IP is from Belgrade, Serbia (User:PaxEquilibrium). If answer is yes there it will be OK to give data to checkuser Thatcher for User:PaxEquilibrium check. If answer is no then Balkan articles are having new puppeteer.....--Rjecina (talk) 21:58, 2 October 2008 (UTC)

Hi there. No, the editor is not located anywhere in Serbia - Alison ^❤ 00:57, 3 October 2008 (UTC)

Need some help

Please see this AN/I thread. -Jéské ^{(v^_^v Kacheek!)} 01:12, 3 October 2008 (UTC)

 Done - thanks! - Alison ^❤ 02:41, 3 October 2008 (UTC)

NisarKand is back

[20]. Cheers! --Jayron32.talk.contribs 22:02, 3 October 2008 (UTC)

 Completed - both Nisar and Tajik - Alison ^❤ 22:10, 3 October 2008 (UTC)

I'm sorry to be pain but I just could not watch a banned guy like Tajik come back and destroy Afghanistan related articles and get away with it by fooling you guys. I have lots of respect for you and your hard work here, that's why I don't edit anymore. Is it possible to check if User:Enzuru is also Tajik's sock, it left a very suspecious and strange message on Tajik's talk page recently.[21]--Irozee (talk) 22:35, 3 October 2008 (UTC)

No, that's  Unrelated to Tajik. Wrong continent - Alison ^❤ 23:36, 3 October 2008 (UTC)

A confirmed sockpuppet?

Hi Alison,

Is any specific reason why User:Guyver85 was not blocked? He was confirmed by you as a sockpuppet of indefinitely blocked user Top_Gun (talk · contribs), as follows from this report [22]. He simply stated: "no, I am not him" and continue editing. This is obviously him, as he edits precisely the same articles and has exactly same problems, like copyright violations [23]. What do you think? Thank you.Biophys (talk) 22:17, 3 October 2008 (UTC)

Hi Biophys. No, I'd no idea why he was left running about, given that he was  Confirmed as a sock. It's not usual for checkusers to block RFCU cases based on the results. Usually either the ever-busy checkuser clerks do it, or the person filing the requests puts a request in at ANI to have them blocked. I guess this one slipped through somehow - Alison ^❤ 23:37, 3 October 2008 (UTC)

Blocked now. Risker (talk) 23:48, 3 October 2008 (UTC)

Troubles

Since you commented: Wikipedia:Administrators'_noticeboard/Arbitration_enforcement#Modified_remedies_proposal — Rlevse • Talk • 02:29, 4 October 2008 (UTC)

See new change I made...1) should Sarah be on civility parole and 2) can you draft up a list of articles needing 1RR restriction? — Rlevse • Talk • 11:29, 4 October 2008 (UTC) Can we use this list: Wikipedia:WikiProject Irish Republicanism/Watchlist or is it too slanted toward the Irish side? — Rlevse • Talk • 15:02, 4 October 2008 (UTC)

Actually Sarah is already on civility parole. But then Sarah hasn't been uncivil except in response to uncivil attacks. Sarah does not accept that she must endure unrestrained incivility and attacks by Admins and others which go unremarked and unchecked while she is denied the right to reply in kind. While Sarah will endeavor to remain civil she will never, ever, ever, ever accept lopsided restrictions. Alison is my "mentor" (I think) and she points out to me whenever she feels I'm being unacceptably uncivil. Sarah777 (talk) 16:30, 4 October 2008 (UTC)

This is where Sarah is wrong. Because others are uncivil to her does not give her the right to be uncivil back and not suffer the consequences. Responding in kind to incivility only makes it worse and makes you just as guilty as the other user. In those cases you need to step back and let uninvolved outsiders handle it, bite your tongue, and let our your frustrations by playing racquetball or something. This mentality only perpetuates the problem without doing anything to solve it. If others are "getting away with it" as you claim, you should report them if you haven't and if you did and nothing happened, you need to look at where and to whom you've reported it. Enough is enough on The Troubles, Sri Lanka, A-A, the Mid-East, and all the other ethnic problems areas on wiki. It's way past the point where people need to start behaving and build the encyclopedia rather than using wiki as a means to foment their real world ethnic wars. — Rlevse • Talk • 17:47, 4 October 2008 (UTC)

I hope you are not suggesting I'm fomenting real world ethnic wars? Unfortunately most of the incivility directed at me comes from the "Administrator Community" and I get zero protection from other Admins and when I have complained (basically I've given up on that ) all I get is rubbish about why the Admin was justified or bizarre claims that he/she "wasn't really uncivil". I thought WP:NPOV was the key ethic of Wiki; seems it isn't. Rather WP:CIVIL, defined vaguely and Administered randomly and arbitrarily is the only REAL crime the Wiki-police see. Sarah777 (talk) 19:05, 4 October 2008 (UTC)

The fomenting problem was a general comment about problems I see in the ethnic wars on wiki. For you Sarah, your major problems, as others have often pointed out, is your combative, defensive attitude and incivility. NPOV is a key pillar but what I often see in the ehtnic wars on wiki is that one side always sees their own view as NPOV and the other as POV, ie, as the "misinformation" I talked about before. — Rlevse • Talk • 19:11, 4 October 2008 (UTC)

What is A-A? And I'd dispute your characterisation of the Middle East as an "ethnic problem" when clearly it is an issue of Western Imperialism, colonisation, land-grabbing and the reaction to that. But the "Wiki majority" cannot see or won't accept that their "mainstream" (in the parochial Anglosphere) views are in fact those of a minority ethnic faction, every bit as much as the Tamils or the Serbs. It is that failure to understand which is the real problem on Wiki; not the non-acceptance of totally arbitrary "civility" rules. That and the avoidance of my comments about the complete biased manner in which the civility rules are enforced (or not enforced). Sarah777 (talk) 19:19, 4 October 2008 (UTC)

For A-A, see Wikipedia:Requests_for_arbitration/Armenia-Azerbaijan_2, an area of wiki that I'd rate as the most problematic of all. The Mid East is ethnic, religious, Western influences, etc and so on. It's not just anyone one of those. Its problem go back thousands of years. Quality articles emerge with all sides work together, not when one side pushes out the other. Users do have differing standards of civility and I often disagree with others about what is and isn't civil, as do others with me; just as people have different views about other things. This does not mean we can't work together to build an encyclopedia. Not knowing the specifics of the civility cases you're talking about, I can't say much more at this point on that. — Rlevse • Talk • 19:44, 4 October 2008 (UTC)

Checkuser help needed

Hi Alison. Can you look at Wikipedia:Administrators_noticeboard/Incidents#Spamming_sock_farm_needs_blocking for me? An admin is asking me to file a checkuser request but I'm not sure how to when the case is obvious. I can't work at the computer for extended periods of time due to medical issues (the Commons pic you deleted for me) so I need to ask for help. Sorry but I hope you can help me. EconomicsGuy (talk) 05:05, 4 October 2008 (UTC)

 Completed - Alison ^❤ 07:32, 4 October 2008 (UTC)

a lil sumfin sumfin foya

		The Barnstar of Diligence
		For being the best damn checkuser at Wikipedia. Jayron32.talk.contribs 05:18, 4 October 2008 (UTC)

Awww. Thank you :) - Alison ^❤ 07:32, 4 October 2008 (UTC)

Barefoot socks

Now there's a funny title... Anyways, the barefoot guy is back. Can you check Dremen (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log) and see what other sockpuppets are around? -- Gogo Dodo (talk) 07:01, 4 October 2008 (UTC)

Are you ready for this??  Confirmed - the following accounts are all the foot fetishist:

1. Dremen (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log)
2. AbbST (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log)
3. Ceetton (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log)
4. Cizerex (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log)
5. AdoraShe-Ra (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log)
6. MDwww (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log)
7. Primegoodie (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log)
8. Rwws (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log)
9. Lliaa (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log)
10. Landings (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log)
11. Arcanne (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log)
12. Lestml (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log)
13. Stratrep (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log)
14. Promnowe (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log)
15. Bellrem (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log)
16. TheBoneWoman (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log)
17. DlsHouse (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log)
18. Crommorc (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log)
19. Fornsc (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log)
20. Relater (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log)
21. Vakala (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log)
22. Calidite (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log)
23. Bythh (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log)
24. BrandRM (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log)
25. Sotrev (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log)
26. Dessirre (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log)

I was able to block and tag all these in one go with some new checkuser tools. Kinda handy, that.

Footnote:  IP blocked also - Alison ^❤ 07:29, 4 October 2008 (UTC)

Can that blocking and tagging tool be made available to clerks and favored admins. *fawn* *fawn* Jehochman ^Talk 19:11, 4 October 2008 (UTC)

That would be waaay handy. Pity it's part of the checkuser result screen :/ - Alison ^❤ 19:46, 4 October 2008 (UTC)

More work for you. Less work for me. Woo hoo! Jehochman ^Talk 19:49, 4 October 2008 (UTC)

Why am I not surprised? Thanks. On a completely unrelated note, did you get my email from a week or so ago? -- Gogo Dodo (talk) 19:26, 4 October 2008 (UTC)

I did, yep. My mail's in backlog right now but I'll reply soon :) - Alison ^❤ 19:46, 4 October 2008 (UTC)

No worries, the email isn't that important. Was just wondering if you got it or not. =) I hope you don't mind, but I redid all of your sock tagging on the accounts so that they all point back to the "original" (or at least the earliest I found originally) account. -- Gogo Dodo (talk) 20:14, 4 October 2008 (UTC)

Troubles at SSP

Could you have a look at Wikipedia:Suspected sock puppets/Blue Bugle. There are two single purpose accounts stalking another editor, doing reverts like Great Britain and Ireland -> The British Isles. I believe these two socks have a master account, or perhaps a banned user behind them. Jehochman ^Talk 13:19, 4 October 2008 (UTC)

Email

Just to confirm I've sent you an email on one matter. Ncmvocalist (talk) 14:22, 4 October 2008 (UTC)

The matter is

Resolved

for now. Ncmvocalist (talk) 08:32, 6 October 2008 (UTC)

Block request

Could you also block this User:ㄏㄨㄤㄉㄧ's sock[24]? The troll impersonates my previous screen name. If possible, could you also semi-protect my pages? I already got attacked by the troll twice.--Caspian blue (talk) 19:38, 4 October 2008 (UTC)

(ec)  Done I've protected your userpage indefinitely, as well as adding move-sysop. I've also protected your talk page for a few hours and blocked the vandal. One of the images used is now in the image blacklist - Alison ^❤ 19:45, 4 October 2008 (UTC)

Thank you for the help. I hope the troll accepts his block and give up to edit(disrupt) Wikipedia--Caspian blue (talk) 19:45, 4 October 2008 (UTC)

Thank you...

...for blocking User:Raisininthemoon, apparently the latest sock of the guy discussed immediately above a.k.a. User:Nefbmn or maybe a copycat. Where do I go to request semi-protection of my talk page AND my user page, just so I can choke off that character? (along with User:Ron liebman's occasional socks, unrelated to the Nefbmn situation) Baseball Bugs ^{What's up, Doc?} 19:57, 4 October 2008 (UTC)

 Done - same as Caspian Blue's above ;) - Alison ^❤ 20:01, 4 October 2008 (UTC)

Ring-a-ding

You've got mail. Tvoz/talk 01:33, 5 October 2008 (UTC)

Fancy that! So do you :) - Alison ^❤ 03:30, 5 October 2008 (UTC)

Still making dinner? <jk, but take a look - at email, I mean> Tvoz/talk 04:08, 5 October 2008 (UTC)

Replied - Alison ^❤ 06:31, 5 October 2008 (UTC)

Wikipeire - lastest sock

Wikipeire's latest sock is called User:CroatiaShoes Snappy56 (talk) 03:20, 5 October 2008 (UTC)

 Confirmed and blocked. I thought he's stopped. It might be time to block another range, unfortunately - Alison ^❤ 03:30, 5 October 2008 (UTC)

Thanks, but what can be done with this user? This is in danger of becoming a full time job! Snappy56 (talk) 03:47, 5 October 2008 (UTC)

I just rolled back all his edits where he put in his POV weirdness. It took all of about 20 seconds. Sooner or later, he'll realize that the time that's being wasted is his own. Do you have rollback, BTW? - Alison ^❤ 03:48, 5 October 2008 (UTC)

The message is taking its time to sink in to him! No, I don't have rollback, next time (and there probably will be one), I'll leave it to you. Snappy56 (talk) 03:53, 5 October 2008 (UTC)

Well, you have rollback now :) Have fun and don't use it for anything other than vandalism or reverting block-evading editors - Alison ^❤ 04:02, 5 October 2008 (UTC)

Wait, Wikipeire is the guy who does that? The other day on Huggle I saw someone doing that. I wish I could remember what his name was. I'm new with most long-term abuse people, other than Grawp. Do we block Wikipiere on sight? J.delanoy^gabs_adds 03:57, 5 October 2008 (UTC)

Please do, yes. He's block-evading, has had dozens of socks and is fast cruising for a community ban. Which, all said, is a pity :( - Alison ^❤ 04:02, 5 October 2008 (UTC)

Alison, I've discovered a few IP addresses which appear to be this Wikipéire fella. I submitted a couple of reports: Wikipedia:Requests for checkuser#213.202.143.88 and Wikipedia:Requests for checkuser#Editstan. Please note that the one I did on Editstan was submitted before I became aware of the Wikipéire puppetmaster, and therefore includes Domer48 and Fennessy. This is only because of similarities in editing and the fact that one of the users was blocked at the time (I considered the possibility of block evasion) and were added to the list purely from a logical standpoint (recent editing histories etc). Both reports have so far been ignored. Cheers. --Setanta747 (talk) 16:57, 5 October 2008 (UTC)

More socks?? Oh no, oh no, noooooooo. GoodDay (talk) 17:09, 5 October 2008 (UTC)

Thanks, Setanta747 - I've run the latter case tonight - Alison ^❤ 08:02, 6 October 2008 (UTC)

Hey Alison, whatcha think of my performance (the Oh nos, above). Academy worthy? GoodDay (talk) 12:43, 6 October 2008 (UTC)

zomg

But he's a 'name'! Yes this is 'her' for sure Special:Contributions/Dereks1x same interests when she turns up on articles, same edit summaries etc. I picked Pressie up when she was having problems on AN/I, what a strange turn of events, and a disappointment. Sticky Parkin 12:39, 5 October 2008 (UTC)

Driveby...Was this one checked? Something amiss here, I feel.⋙–Berean–Hunter—► ((⊕)) 13:24, 5 October 2008 (UTC)

We can't checkuser people just for being adoptees of mine, can we?:) I knew 903 was presumptive, 'she' said she felt harassed under her old account and so (allegedly lol) changed to a completely new one, in accordance with policy. I recommended she tell a checkuser she was doing this. Its not something I'll let someone do again and stay my adoptee. I really hope Tohd isn't one too, but they don't seem to make similar edits. Sticky Parkin 15:02, 5 October 2008 (UTC)

'Sokay. Tohd isn't :) And don't feel bad about Dereks1x - remember, he got through RfA as Archtransit! - Alison ^❤ 18:40, 5 October 2008 (UTC)

Good! I'm happy to be wrong about that..I'm sure Sticky is too. Thanks Alison. ⋙–Berean–Hunter—► ((⊕)) 22:26, 5 October 2008 (UTC)

Test Wiki Imposter

Hi Alison,

Recently, some one impostered you on the unixpod test wiki @ testwiki.unixpod.com. The issue was figured out after CU was abused! Therefore, if you want to, can you re-create an account, with a link to this talk page or something saying that it's the real you, or remove the link from your matrix?

Thanks,

The Helpful One ^Review 17:15, 7 October 2008 (UTC)

Hmm, re-checking your matrix -- I found that I looked for the /Test Wikipedia/ - the test.wikipedia.org one! I miss read it :S The Helpful One ^Review 18:56, 7 October 2008 (UTC)

Ok, I'm pretty annoyed right now, especially when I had to go to ED to figure out what happened over there. In future, if you find someone on a wiki claiming to be me, and especially requesting checkuser rights, please check with me first. You must at least do the minimum to authenticate that editor. I'm not saying you were involved or anything, but whoever was .... yeesh. That was monumentally stupid and was one of the reasons I left all the small test wikis behind, except Xyrael. Too much infighting and silly politics, and too much dishing out checkuser to just about everyone. Ugh! - Alison ^❤ 20:57, 7 October 2008 (UTC)

Alison, have you rejoined Test Wiki? I'm double checking here. Dusti^SPEAK!! 14:44, 8 October 2008 (UTC)

Yep. I was on IRC last night and happened to catch Cometstyles on, so we sorted the account thing out ... - Alison ^❤ 14:44, 8 October 2008 (UTC)

Ok, I couldn't find where you verified and saw the the CU had been used by an account with your name and about flipped, but good :) Glad to see you back!!! Dusti^SPEAK!! 14:48, 8 October 2008 (UTC)

Encyclopedist and Depression

Hi, Alison. I saw a recent edit by an editor here who I was familiar with and his concerns that a vandal assuming my old name was actually me.

I would like to verify that, yes, I am Encyclopedist...as you can see my contributions have been productive on this account and I have absolutely no intention to vandalize.

As a further note, I believe clinical depression is a serious problem and one I would not dare make fun of, seeing as how I wonder if I have it at times too (yes I read your note about it and comment that "WikiStalkers like Encyclopedist love to make fun of...")

You are a brave, wonderful woman and I only wish you the best in your future...keep going to check yourself up, I personally support you...

Thanks for all of your contributions and work here...I am on my way to Georgetown U. in a few weeks so I don't have time to edit, let alone vandalize. I acted as "CIyde" mostly as a joke...after reading about your personally plight I feel really bad about that now.

I hope this account isn't blocked or banned, but these are the rules so I can see how this would happen. Thank you for bringing light to the fact that many have assumed my name in the attempt to vandalize while disparaging me... In just two years I have seen how stupid that really was.

Keep up the fight, and Go Hoyas!Ulises Heureaux (talk) 02:02, 4 August 2008 (UTC)

E-mail request

Alison, it has been suggested to me that you are quite an even-handed and fair-minded admin, and certainly I seem to remember having seen evidence of this. I wonder therefore, if you'd mind giving me some help with a particular matter, through private correspondence. Mind if I e-mail you? Cheers --Setanta747 (talk) 11:22, 26 September 2008 (UTC)

Hi there. Yes, you can email me if you like Special:EmailUser/Alison here. I'll be delighted to help where I can - Alison ^❤ 19:15, 27 September 2008 (UTC)

Thanks Alison. E-mail sent. The link above suggested you had your e-mail facility turned off, but the link on the left column seemed to work. Cheers. --Setanta747 (talk) 22:08, 27 September 2008 (UTC)

That's because the link she gave you is to email User:Alison here, which, as far as I know, has not been registered yet. J.delanoy^gabs_adds 06:19, 28 September 2008 (UTC) This random comment-which-adds-nothing-to-the discussion could not have been brought to you without the generous support of our sponsors...

I left the pipe character out. D'oh! It should be [[User:Alison|here]] - Alison ^❤ 18:16, 29 September 2008 (UTC)

Heh! Thanks for that addition J.Delanoy! I never even examined the link tbh. Alison, I sent that e-mail. Please let me know, when you can, if you received it or not. If not, I'll try to resend. Cheers. --Setanta747 (talk) 20:23, 29 September 2008 (UTC)

Thanks, Setanta747 - I got that one all right but it got stuck in my ever-increasing backlog. I'll get to it in a min here .... - Alison ^❤ 03:51, 30 September 2008 (UTC)

No problem Alison. Thanks for letting me know of its pending status! :) --Setanta747 (talk) 19:43, 1 October 2008 (UTC)

Barnstar notice

The Sock Puppet Barnstar This Sock Puppet barnstar is awarded for... well... flushing out Sock Puppets. Sensible, no? Stifle (talk) 15:35, 3 October 2008 (UTC)

Email

I emailed you with something that may need your attention. You'll see why. Ottava Rima (talk) 16:13, 3 October 2008 (UTC)

Another on ga.wp

User:Te? NawlinWiki (talk) 18:27, 3 October 2008 (UTC)

903M

Hiya Alison. A very crafty sock, he was; he seemed to try to gain my support at Talk:Joe Biden by suggesting I too was being suspected of SPA. GoodDay (talk) 16:56, 5 October 2008 (UTC)

Indeed! - Alison ^❤ 04:42, 9 October 2008 (UTC)

FYI

MediaWiki talk:Bad image list#deletion of 2257-triggering images - BanyanTree 22:35, 5 October 2008 (UTC)

Thanks, I followed up on Jimmy's talk page and am watching closely. I'd like to see a little more clarity from Jimmy first, though - Alison ^❤ 08:01, 6 October 2008 (UTC)

hi

hi alison how r u —Preceding unsigned comment added by Mp517 (talk • contribs) 02:17, 6 October 2008 (UTC)

Fiine, thanks - Alison ^❤ 02:39, 6 October 2008 (UTC)

Thank you!

I hope to be able to learn from your example! -- Avi (talk) 04:40, 6 October 2008 (UTC)

Yippee! Thanks Alison. :) Nishkid64 _{(Make articles, not wikidrama)} 04:43, 6 October 2008 (UTC)

User:RestoreTheEmpireSociety

Could you take a look at the new addition by me? I think the vandal ㄏㄨㄤㄉㄧ is a reincarnating the indef.blocked troll named RestoreTheEmpireSociety (talk · contribs). Wikipedia:Requests for checkuser/Case/RestoreTheEmpireSociety would be a reference.--Caspian blue (talk) 07:58, 6 October 2008 (UTC)

I just replied over there as you were typing this :) Hopefully, the two rangeblocks should hold him a while - Alison ^❤ 08:00, 6 October 2008 (UTC)

Thanks. I also hope he give up returning to English Wikipedia.--Caspian blue (talk) 08:06, 6 October 2008 (UTC)

User caught in a hard-rangeblock made by you

Muke (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · nuke contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log) has been caught in a rangeblock made by you. He's been around for a while, and a cursory glance at his contribs revealed nothing alarming, so normally I would just grant IP block exemption. However, since you blocked his IP range with {{checkuserblock}}, I decided it would be best to appeal to you. Here is a link to the unblock request: User_talk:Muke#Unblock_req.

Thanks for your time,

J.delanoy^gabs_adds 14:59, 6 October 2008 (UTC)

Hi there. Thanks for letting me know. Yep, go ahead and give them exemption, I say. They check out fine and are sysop on other projects. Could you just leave a note on Wikipedia talk:IP block exemption and point out that it's been okayed by checkuser? Thanks! - Alison ^❤ 15:12, 6 October 2008 (UTC)

Tks fur vandilizin my page but...

You forgot my talk page, I have the icons there too. Guess what? I noticed you did that when I went to copy the code from YOUR page haha. So I added the code to my talk page myself. Thanks for thinking of me LUV! — Rlevse • Talk • 20:38, 6 October 2008 (UTC)

You new guys are so mean! You've left nothing in RFCU to do. All I can do is kick back and take it easy :) - Alison ^❤ 07:00, 7 October 2008 (UTC)

No problem

Re:[25]. No problem, thought I'd help out as I still remember how to do the paperwork - even if they have taken away my access to the clerks' IRC channel... ;) WJBscribe (talk) 21:33, 6 October 2008 (UTC)

Have a pie

Dave1185 (talk) has given you a pie! Pies promote the kind of hearty eating that puts a smile on your face and a sustaining meal in your stomach. Hopefully this pie has made your day better. Spread the goodness by giving someone else a pie, whether it be someone you have had disagreements with in the past or a good friend. Happy eating! Spread the goodness of pie by adding {{subst:Wikipie}} to their talk page with a friendly message.

Or are you hungry for a Haggis instead? And thanks for the help rendered in RFCU, Cheers! ...Dave1185 (talk) 03:07, 7 October 2008 (UTC)

Heh - thanks, Dave. I wonder is that a vegetarian one? - Alison ^❤ 07:02, 7 October 2008 (UTC) (OMNOMNOM)

• It's a nerds' pi, chose the filling of your choice. Also, I see a Grawp wannabe hard at work on your talk page again. Gnat's all, folks! ...Dave1185 (talk) 08:20, 14 October 2008 (UTC)

Ionas62884

I have reinstated his e-mail block. Although he does apologize, he also continues to be who he is and I do not wish to communicate with him.—Ryūlóng (竜龙) 06:42, 7 October 2008 (UTC)

No problem at all. That's your perogative & it was you that had to deal with him last, not me - Alison ^❤ 07:00, 7 October 2008 (UTC)

Oversight

Did you oversight any edits here? Because I can still a lot of personal info.

Are you allowed to oversight stuff as a test? If so, can you try oversighting this so I can see if it works? J.delanoy^gabs_adds 07:05, 7 October 2008 (UTC)

I'm not allowed, sorry :( I oversighted a bunch of stuff from there already, but she put it right back up again. All well and good, etc, but that's not just her stuff, y'know. And it's seriously personal info. Hold on - I'll zap it again, so - Alison ^❤ 07:09, 7 October 2008 (UTC)

OK, now I'm confused. The deletion log shows one entry, and yet if I understand you correctly she re-added her PI after you deleted the page? Or did you oversight and then delete it? If the answer is ridiculously obvious, keep in mind that my local time is 3:20am. J.delanoy^gabs_adds 07:20, 7 October 2008 (UTC)

Hey, it's past midnight here :) What happened was, you reported the page to Oversight, having deleted it. I oversighted the entire page, apart from the first edit (which was marginally okay). Then she came along again and added it again. And I deleted the page again. Then you noticed the edits. Then I oversighted them again. And here we are :) - Alison ^❤ 07:31, 7 October 2008 (UTC)

IRC

I heard you have an IRC channel. I've been on IRC for many years. Can I join?

Rollback request

Hi, I see you have expressed a willingness to grant rollback rights to users. I would like to use the rollback feature on my account. I use twinkle but sometimes it would be handy to use the rollback feature to revert cases of vandalism that come to my attention when I am using internet explorer (which doesn't support twinkle). Best regards, Jdrewitt (talk) 11:28, 7 October 2008 (UTC)

Ooooh, may I also have rollback? Sticky Parkin 03:22, 8 October 2008 (UTC)

 Of course! Both of you have clean records and are not edit warriors nor new editors. Have fun with rollback :) - Alison ^❤ 05:23, 8 October 2008 (UTC)

Many thanks :) Jdrewitt (talk) 09:30, 8 October 2008 (UTC)

Yay thanks, I wasn't sure about having it at first as I didn't think I'd want to do things more quickly/get things more wrong, but on the French wiki all I'm good for is reverting vandalism (I can just about tell if someone's put an edit insulting their random mate in an article) so now I've got a taste for it and want to do it faster.:) Sticky Parkin 11:47, 8 October 2008 (UTC)

Congrats to both! Hi Alison, just curious..what does rollback do that Twinkle doesn't? Cheers,⋙–Berean–Hunter—► ((⊕)) 03:31, 9 October 2008 (UTC)

This seems to be the place to ask for it, so... I'd like to request rollback as well. AniMate 03:35, 9 October 2008 (UTC)

 Done - have fun :) - Alison ^❤ 03:49, 9 October 2008 (UTC)

I'm not sure, BB. I know that it works across all browsers, for example, whereas Twinkle doesn't. It's basically the identical rollback tool that admins have - Alison ^❤ 03:49, 9 October 2008 (UTC)

Many thanks for that and for taking care of the socky down below. AniMate 03:53, 9 October 2008 (UTC)

I'd like to request rollback as well if you think I qualify. Thank you,⋙–Berean–Hunter—► ((⊕)) 04:16, 9 October 2008 (UTC)

 Sorted - I notice your block for edit-warring is in the dim and distant past. Have fun, too :) - Alison ^❤ 04:25, 9 October 2008 (UTC)

Thank you very much! ..I've never been blocked before though..confused about that. Cheers,⋙–Berean–Hunter—► ((⊕)) 04:33, 9 October 2008 (UTC)

Check your block log - you were blocked for two minutes! - Alison ^❤ 04:43, 9 October 2008 (UTC)

Oh WOW! I never knew that happened (and dropped stuff on the floor when I read your reply..cats took off running..scared 'em. ;) Was shocked to see it..never checked my own blocklog before. Kinda short duration for a block isn't it? Probably better off at the time that I didn't realize it. What makes it funny now is that I still have part of a mess on my floor to clean up and the cats are hiding. 8^D ⋙–Berean–Hunter—► ((⊕)) 05:09, 9 October 2008 (UTC)

NisarKand anon

You might be aware of it already, but just in case: There's a mini thread on ANI suggesting that he is editing anonymously. Maybe a soft rangeblock expired lately? -- lucasbfr ^talk 13:37, 7 October 2008 (UTC)

 Done - thanks :) I've replied over there - feel free to rangeblock - Alison ^❤ 14:24, 7 October 2008 (UTC)

Another Special:ListUsers sockfarm

*groan*. So easy, so.... boring......

...Anyways, per this post on my talk page, it looks like someone already took care of the IP, but I just wanted to make sure that that we actually do get his IP address, and that he doesn't have any more socks that actually require Special:CheckUser to find. (as opposed to Special:ListUsers. If people can flush out your sockfarm with the latter tool, you need help. Badly.) J.delanoy^gabs_adds 17:14, 7 October 2008 (UTC)

Thanks! Got the rest of them and blocked the IP earlier today. It had previously come up elsewhere today, funny enough - Alison ^❤ 21:05, 7 October 2008 (UTC)

Apparently you missed one? [26] IDK, maybe you can nuke another IP address. J.delanoy^gabs_adds 21:29, 7 October 2008 (UTC)

...And another. [27] J.delanoy^gabs_adds 23:25, 7 October 2008 (UTC)

Yep,  Done - Alison ^❤ 00:26, 8 October 2008 (UTC)

		The Random Acts of Kindness Barnstar
		Thanks for always making it better when I come here 1000's of times daily to ask for assistance. J.delanoygabsadds 01:04, 8 October 2008 (UTC)

Thanks a bunch! I'm sorry for always bugging you. I do know that there are other checkusers and oversighters on the project. It's just that when I find someone who always helps me out, I tend to keep coming back to them more and more frequently when I have a similar problem. (Ask Moonriddengirl about my CSD tags before I became an admin...) Anyways, have a good evening! Hopefully I won't need to bug you again tonight.... but I wouldn't bet on it........ J.delanoy^gabs_adds 01:04, 8 October 2008 (UTC)

Thank you :) And it's no problem at all! Feel free to bug me here whenever you like (and note that we have four new checkusers to bug, too :) ) - Alison ^❤ 03:50, 9 October 2008 (UTC)

Block on 74.62.155.33 ?

Hi - forgive me if I don't know the whole story/procedure behind this, but I was cleaning up some vandalism by this particular user, went to put a note on their talk page, and saw that the user was marked as being blocked. Is this block expired, or is there some other way they could have gotten around this, or...? Sounds like you already lead a busy enough wikilife, but I figured it was at least worth mentioning to you. Regards, NapoliRoma (talk) 03:44, 8 October 2008 (UTC)

Hi there. It had been blocked for six months for being an open proxy and the block had just expired a few days ago. It's still an open proxy (click here) so I've gone ahead and reblocked it for another year.[28] If I've blocked a proxy, this usually means it's been used by an account abusively and this may not always be apparent from the anon edits. Checkuser can determine the accounts behind it - Alison ^❤ 05:21, 8 October 2008 (UTC)

My first checkuser request for today

Special:ListUsers/Epicfail. Are any of these socks? The only really obvious ones are Epicfail1 and Epicfail3, and I'm reluctant to go around swinging the banhammer in the fog. J.delanoy^gabs_adds 15:15, 8 October 2008 (UTC)

That 1=3 can be  Confirmed. The others are a tad  Stale. -- Avi (talk) 15:22, 8 October 2008 (UTC)

Probable sock of User:Dereks1x

Recently you blocked User:Presumptive as a sock of Dereks1x. I stumbled across Joey Didier, a copy and paste job from Joseph Didier/Murder of Joseph Didier from Presumptive's user page history. Aside from a few arguments about the title of the article on 9/11, the article on Didier's murder was all that Presumptive seemed to care about on Wikipedia. As the checkuser that blocked Presumptive, I thought I'd bring this to your attention, as I find it improbable that a new user would have the wiki-savvy to locate the deleted text and find a new page location for an article that has been deleted three or four times. AniMate 00:05, 9 October 2008 (UTC)

Thanks for that. I found and blocked a few others, as well as blocked a long-term IP.  Confirmed as being Dereks1x - Alison ^❤ 03:47, 9 October 2008 (UTC)

Email

SAVIOR_SELF.777 01:47, 9 October 2008 (UTC)

We need Dumbledore here...

Solid Falcon (talk · contribs) - you know the drill. -Jéské ^{(v^_^v Kacheek!)} 02:54, 9 October 2008 (UTC)

Yep, all  Done - Alison ^❤ 02:56, 9 October 2008 (UTC)

R-Con 9 (talk · contribs) - Once more, and make sure to whack any sleepers you find in bed. -Jéské ^{(v^_^v Kacheek!)} 18:33, 9 October 2008 (UTC)

Enlip/Koov

Thanks for your block of User:Enlip, on October 5. Do you have magical checkuser powers that allow you to recognize socks of Koov, or was it on straight behavior? Luckily, it has not been hard to recognize the members of the club so far on behavior, but any extra help would be welcome. EdJohnston (talk) 03:06, 9 October 2008 (UTC)

Hi, Ed. Yes, I'm checkuser here - Alison ^❤ 03:43, 9 October 2008 (UTC)

What I meant is, do you have industrial-strength methods of finding more Koov socks, or perhaps have you secretly blocked a thousand of them, so we should rely on you in future? EdJohnston (talk) 03:57, 9 October 2008 (UTC)

I blocked an entire boatload of them, sometime back. I can't remember the details now, but I also remember blocking his IP, too. If he comes back and causes you a major problem, just drop me a note and I'll see what I can do ;) - Alison ^❤ 04:24, 9 October 2008 (UTC)

Oh hai

Dreadstar † haz given u Cheezburgr! Cheezburgrs promote WikiLovez and hopefully thiz one haz made yore day bettr. Spreadd the WikiLovez by givin someone else Cheezburger, whethr it be someone youz have had disagreementz with in teh past or a gud friend. Happy munchins!

Spredd teh goudnesz of Cheezburgerz by addin {{subst:Cheezburgr}} to their talk puj with friendly messuj.

Heh - thanks, Dreadstar. I hope that's a gardenburger :-) Nice to hear from you again - it's been ages - Alison ^❤ 04:28, 9 October 2008 (UTC)

I has been a while, hasn't it? Hope you're doing well...! And yeah, I think you can order the garden cheezborger at the Olympia Cafe, just no Coke, Pepsi...! Alternatively we could try Alice's Restaurant, where we can get anything we want.  :)

I was inspired to make the Cheezburgr template by your edit summary... :-D Dreadstar † 18:23, 9 October 2008 (UTC)

Something of interest...

Alison, please take a look here and feel free to expand it if you want, it could do with expert knowledge from a sysop. --Walmwutter (talk) 12:57, 9 October 2008 (UTC)

Rlevse verdict

Ali, I have spent a while mulling over this, took a Wiki-break, etc. But I am absolutely outraged and upset by the finding by the Admin "Rlevse". His/her "verdict" in the latest "troubles" dispute mentions only the two Irish editors, Domer and myself. (And I wasn't even involved in the edit war, something admitted during the course of the proceedings). I want to take this matter further as the inability of the Anglo-American Admins to understand that WP:POV does not = "majority Anglo-American POV" is unacceptable. I beleive that Admins, however 'expierenced' who cannot demonstrate a grasp of the concept of WP:NPOV should not be in positions of authority. My question: where and how do I raise this issue? Sarah777 (talk) 21:25, 9 October 2008 (UTC)

User:Senator Palpatine

Hey Alison. I know that since you're a checkuser, there's no reason to believe otherwise if you say that he's a sock, but ...whoa o_0. That sock case is ridiculously long. ~ Troy (talk) 02:01, 10 October 2008 (UTC)

Oh. My. Fucking. God. HE was Grawp? My god. I had considered nomming him for adminship. You should hear me swearing in real life..... J.delanoy^gabs_adds 02:10, 10 October 2008 (UTC)

• J, I can already imagine you doing that. Hahaha... what are the odds of him being Grawp? Who knew? XD ...Dave1185 (talk) 06:00, 10 October 2008 (UTC)

The best laid schemes o' mice and men

Gang aft a-gley;

And leave us naught but grief and pain

For promised joy.

Thatcher 02:41, 10 October 2008 (UTC)

Nice work Alison! I suspect he has other "good hand" accounts -- most notably User:Haagenti (fits username pattern) and User:Betta Splendens (he likes tropical fish and Violet Blue (author)), if you want to check those too. NawlinWiki (talk) 19:58, 10 October 2008 (UTC)

Nope. Thatcher 20:21, 10 October 2008 (UTC)

I protected your talk page

Per this edit: [29]. Hope you don't mind. --Jayron32.talk.contribs 20:31, 10 October 2008 (UTC)

Thank you :) - Alison ^❤ 06:48, 12 October 2008 (UTC)

Mrs. Friar

Mrs. Friar looks like a Mrs. Bell Anthony Alda (talk) 20:53, 10 October 2008 (UTC)

Gwendolyn Friar

Mrs. Friar's real name is Gwendolyn Friar Anthony Alda (talk) 20:54, 10 October 2008 (UTC)

George W. Bush

George W. Bush turned twenty on July 6, 1966 Anthony Alda (talk) 20:56, 10 October 2008 (UTC)

the daily protection...

You ought to move your talk page somewhere so we can delete all those vandalism edits. J.delanoy^gabs_adds 02:36, 12 October 2008 (UTC)

• There's a quote from The West Wing (which you may or may not know the context of, I dunno), where someone tells Charlie "If they're shooting at you, you must be doing something right". - I don't necessarily agree with applying this is any situation, but it seems to apply here : ) - Keep up the good work : ) - jc37 05:48, 12 October 2008 (UTC)

Thanks, guys. To be honest, I barely notice the vandalism - it's so pointless - and I've no qualms about having it in my edit history. Four years of this stuff and eventually, it all just washes off you as so much meaningless nonsense. Not even worth expending energy to click the delete button ;) Thanks for looking out for me, though :) - Alison ^❤ 06:46, 12 October 2008 (UTC)

Oi! What are you doing up this time of night? :D (I have a couple excuses ;)).. you better not have been called in to work over the weekend :) SirFozzie (talk) 06:52, 12 October 2008 (UTC)

Sitting at home here, snacking on Jelly Bellys - I just popped in for a minute, really. Ok, back to bed again now :) - Alison ^❤ 06:54, 12 October 2008 (UTC)

That's the spirit Alison. GoodDay (talk) 15:03, 12 October 2008 (UTC)

Long wikibreak / semi-retirement

Take care Alison, Its nice to see that you have finally taken the break you so deserve. Cya Round :D   «l| Ψrometheăn ™|l»  (talk) 04:06, 22 October 2008 (UTC)

Take care Allie! Hope to see you back soon. :D GlassCobra 07:26, 22 October 2008 (UTC)

.*CHOMP*. That about sez it all, don't it? :D SirFozzie (talk) 07:34, 22 October 2008 (UTC)

Have one wikibreak for me too :DD ..--Cometstyles 07:36, 22 October 2008 (UTC)

Hope the break helps you to relax and unwind; you certainly deserve it. I do hope you wander back along eventually, though—we really don't want to lose you. ;) Best, AGK 16:11, 26 October 2008 (UTC)

Can't say as I blame ya. Take it easy for a while. Guliolopez (talk) 18:38, 27 October 2008 (UTC)

Only discovered this now. Take care and please come back. Regards, Sarah777 (talk) 22:26, 31 October 2008 (UTC)

have a good 'un

and if you have any objection to my quoting you as saying "I think Privatemusings would make an excellent, insightful, and hugely valuable addition to the arbcom" per our recent conversation, then please do pipe up. ;-) Privatemusings (talk) 06:26, 22 October 2008 (UTC)no really, have a good one.

Gaelic

Bhí mé ar tí é seo a leannas a fhoilsiú i mBéarla, ach ansin chonaic mé do phróifíl ar Betawiki! Cé is moite go bhfuil suim ar leith agam i staid reatha na Gaeilge/Gáidhlig/Gaelg, chan fhuilimse fhéin in inmhe ach Gaeilge a labhairt acu siúd, mar sin bheadh mé mí-úsáideach amach is amach más ar chúrsaí Ghaeilge na hAlban a bhí tú ag iarraidh orm díriú. Tá mé ag obair "go díograiseach" ar ailt do Wikimapia le tamall anuas, agus d'aistrigh mé an leagan Gaeilge de. Char éirigh liom aistritheoir Gáidhlig a aimsiú don tsaothar ámh. Má tá aithne agatsa ar dhuine ar bith a bhfuil líofacht na Gáidhlig acu, arbh fhéidir leatsa dhul i dteagmháil leofasan chun iarraidh orthu é a aistriú má tá an t-am le caitheamh acu ar thionscadal dá leithead. Go dtí seo níor léirigh duine ar bith domhsa go raibh spéis acu ar an drochuair. Míle buíochas leat mar sin fhéin. Bail ó Alah ort!! To whomsoever this does not concern, translations available on request. D.de.loinsigh (talk) 13:44, 22 October 2008

HAI

HAPPY INTERNATIONAL CAPSLOCK DAY!

CWii_{(Talk|Contribs)} HAS GIVEN YOU A CAPSLOCK KEY. CAPSLOCK KEYS SPREAD EPIC LULZ, SO I HOPE YOU LOL'D!

SPEAD THE GOOD WORD BY ADDING {{subst:User:CWii/CAPSLOCKDAY}} TO EDITOR'S TALKPAGE, KTHNXBAI.

CWii_{(Talk|Contribs)} 22:06, 22 October 2008 (UTC)

iPhone Vandalism

Hello Alison. Hopefully everything's going fine. Since you have checkusered this before, as you may recall, I've decided to notify you of this mess ...pretty funny that the guy is from somewhere in the UK like you are XD If we're lucky, s/he may think twice before wasting money on an iPhone to vandalize Wikipedia ...but if that's going to happen, we're in need of another rangeblock. Cheers, ~ Troy (talk) 04:27, 23 October 2008 (UTC)

Whoops, never mind. I didn't realize that you're on a wikibreak. Have a good one. ~ Troy (talk) 03:06, 24 October 2008 (UTC)

Bambifan101 sock check

If you have time, anyway you could check user User:Sjakoj for Wikipedia:Requests for checkuser/Case/Bambifan101. I'm fairly positive it is another sock, seeing as how he is working in conjunction with established sock Iluvteletubbies over at the CY Wikipedia to make new articles, then linking to them her using Sjakoj. -- Collectonian (talk · contribs) 21:33, 26 October 2008 (UTC)

Collectonian, I'd suggest that you ask another checkuser, Allie's on an indefinite wikibreak, so she may not see this SirFozzie (talk) 22:31, 26 October 2008 (UTC)

I know she is, but she also popped in the other day about this specific issue, so figured it was worth a shot. :) I don't know anyone else with check user rights, though his most recent edits have pretty much verified he is indeed another sock. -- Collectonian (talk · contribs) 00:29, 27 October 2008 (UTC)

Your (semi) retirement

Too much drama, eh? I understand perfectly, and I respect your willingness to make this decision.

I wish you well whereever you end up.

Cheers! J.delanoy^gabs_adds 22:41, 26 October 2008 (UTC)

Happy Alison/Archive 27's Day!

User:Alison/Archive 27 has been identified as an Awesome Wikipedian, and therefore, I've officially declared today as Alison/Archive 27's day! For being such a beautiful person and great Wikipedian, enjoy being the Star of the day, dear Alison/Archive 27! Peace, Rlevse ~ A record of your Day will always be kept here.

For a userbox you can add to your userbox page, see User:EVula/Userboxes/Happy Me Day! and my own userpage for a sample of how to use it. — Rlevse • Talk • 00:14, 27 October 2008 (UTC)

The real deal

I've been tempted to take one myself—work has been giving me the perfect excuse. I can't say I've gone through an iota of what you've had to put up with around here (:) but it still gets tiresome, and I haven't even had my third Wiki-anniversary yet! Anyway, I hope you have a good time in RL ;) *hugs* Fvasconcellos (t·c) 01:06, 27 October 2008 (UTC)

Nooo!

[30] !! *cry* Ariel♥Gold 01:24, 28 October 2008 (UTC)

It's ok, Ariel, if we think good thoughts, click our ruby red slippers together and say "There's no Checkuser like Allie" enough, I hear Allie will come back again someday :) SirFozzie (talk) 01:27, 28 October 2008 (UTC)

Update from Allie:

Hey folks, I just talked to Alison off of Wikipedia, and she asked me to pass the following statement to you.

Thank you all for your support. I really appreciate all of the kind thoughts everyone has sent - I couldn't have asked for better friends. I may or may not come back, but if I do, it will be because of my friends. Bai now! :)

She's one of a kind, ain't she? SirFozzie (talk) 05:03, 28 October 2008 (UTC)

She certainly is - best wishes Allie.Thunderer (talk) 10:10, 31 October 2008 (UTC)

Best wishes! and happy lurking ;) -- lucasbfr ^talk 13:25, 31 October 2008 (UTC)

Thanks for the un-lurk! TenOfAllTrades(talk) 13:33, 31 October 2008 (UTC)

Thanks Alison! Gwen Gale (talk) 13:38, 31 October 2008 (UTC)

I too, hope everything's all right where you are. You know where I am if you need me. :) Best wishes. Acalamari 15:56, 31 October 2008 (UTC)

I'm confident that you'll return Alison. 'Til we meet again. GoodDay (talk) 21:15, 31 October 2008 (UTC)

Are there any adults left now or is it just us kidz? Enjoy the bigger picture and thanks for your work here Lucretius (talk) 21:52, 31 October 2008 (UTC)

You can log out any time you like/But you can never leave. bibliomaniac15 18:14, 1 November 2008 (UTC)

Remember you can come back and do less... or more of less... maybe that's more of fewer things... or less of all that other stuff and more of the stuff you want to do? Hey, you could be that sensitive hand at WP:RFCN to opine whether, say, User:TheWrothOfGad is too controversial a name? Breaks are a good time to pick out of the air what it is you really want/like to do. Much luck (and good weather!) Shenme (talk) 03:07, 2 November 2008 (UTC)

I join with everyone else in wishing you a good break for as long as you wish to take one, but also in hoping that you will return to us when you are ready. Very few of us can fully empathize with the extreme stresses you have been subjected to as a result of your editing and administrator work, but you know that you have the best wishes of many of us, and we look forward hopefully to the prospect of working with you again. With every good wish, Newyorkbrad (talk) 20:34, 2 November 2008 (UTC)