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If you want to contact me, please leave a message.

As I would like to keep conversations together, I'll reply on my talk page if you left me a message.

If I start a conversation on your talk page, I'm watching it, so you can respond there.

A-Channel

i was wondering at 12:00 am on August 10th 2008 may i move the A-Channel Article to it new home on the A (television Newtwork)

please get back to me

(Dongwong (talk) 08:18, 1 August 2008 (UTC))[reply]

You cut&pasted the content of this article. This is not allowed, because the GFDL requires the attribution of the original authors. The second problem was that you forgot the second bracket at the new article's title. --Oxymoron⁸³ 08:22, 1 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

yes i know that i was wonderin when A-Channel beocmes A on August 10th if i can use the move tab button you suggested to move it to the new page using the A (Television Network)

please write back

(Dongwong (talk) 08:24, 1 August 2008 (UTC))[reply]

Yes, if they change their name you can use the move button to change the title of the page. --Oxymoron⁸³ 08:31, 1 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks!

I didn't even notice you caught the vandalism to my userpage for a bit, until I looked at my watchlist. Wikipedia works best when this business is taken care of without making a scene. Peptuck (talk) 09:03, 1 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

You're welcome! --Oxymoron⁸³ 09:05, 1 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Missing headline

But it's true he dobbed in Jesus! —Preceding unsigned comment added by 124.182.151.78 (talk • contribs) 14:41, 2 Aug 2008

He identified him and that's already in the article, but you're not allowed to add your personal analysis into articles. --Oxymoron⁸³ 15:13, 2 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Official Reaper Fan Community

Hello, my name is Amber and I have posted an external link to an official fan community in regards to the television show, Reaper.

It has been removed twice from the external links section of the Reaper wiki. I have recieved two messages about this.

Reaper ADDX, (the link I have posted) is the only active community on the internet for the CW series Reaper. My actions of posting this link was not to plug and/or advertise this website, but to give an open door to fans of the show Reaper, who are in need of crucial information, news and updates on the newly aired television series.

I am the owner/creator of this website, and would like granted permission for this to be an additional link on Reaper's wiki page.

It is a great opportunity for fans all around the world to gather in discussion of new or old episodes, their favorite actors/actresses on the show, and plot summaries.

Please take consideration on this, so that people will have the option to become one of our newly blooming community.

Thank you.

Regards,

Amber —Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.177.204.43 (talk • contribs) 21:16, 6 Aug 2008

Hello Amber, please see our guidelines on external links, links to social networking sites should generally be avoided. Besides that, Wikipedia cannot be used to advertise your forum. --Oxymoron⁸³ 21:22, 6 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

feeling hurter

I am doing my best to make helpful and informative edits. Please be more sensitive in the future. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 80.177.209.159 (talk • contribs) 22:25, 7 Aug 2008

If these are your best edits, then please refrain from editing the encyclopedia. --Oxymoron⁸³ 22:30, 7 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Good catch!

Good catch with all the IP socks of our favourite POV-pusher! --Kralizec! (talk) 22:40, 7 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

You're welcome! --Oxymoron⁸³ 22:44, 7 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Re August 2008

I tried moving it because it officially has a ' in the title, but it didnt work, so I didnt know what else to do, but I think I get the picture now. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Live and Die 4 Hip Hop (talk • contribs) 22:48, 7 Aug 2008

The page was recently moved the other way round, so you should propose the move at the article's talk page. If there's an agreement to move the page back, it can be requested at RM instead of cut&paste moving. --Oxymoron⁸³ 22:55, 7 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

You're Not Nice

Why so serious?

http://img370.imageshack.us/img370/4549/tbsmotivatordn8.jpg

Esaburrido (talk) 04:09, 9 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

CE WAS HERE

leave CE alone

plz

u can has a cookie if u does freind

Excuse

With all due respect, I do have an excuse for the nonsense page (do I really need one) I was just eating my lunch when my 9-year old brother gets on and makes it. He saved it without me knowing. Sorry about that... --Vhoscythe^chatter-sign 16:22, 9 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

No problem, I supposed something like that. Happy editing. --Oxymoron⁸³ 16:26, 9 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

your user page

is going to get vandalized now!!!!!!

Another IP hopping troll

From yesterday here they haven't been blocked yet and although they haven't started again, i think its right to let them sit on a block for a duration thats your choice. Thanks Monster Under Your Bed ^(talk) 05:59, 10 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Hi, this user is using dynamic IP addresses and changed it several times since then. This means that he's no longer using the above IP and a block now would not affect the vandal anymore. --Oxymoron⁸³ 12:50, 10 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for the Info

Hi Oxymoron, thank you for the info, however I have managed to create an account. It turned out that one of the IP's were not blocked. It seems to rotate on each log in. I see that there are some unscrupulous people using this IP and I do not wish to be associated with them. So I will not post on that talk page again. Also I wasn't sure whether to post this here or on that IP's discussion page so I put it in both. lol
Thanks again, --Wezgil (talk) 17:33, 10 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Good to see that. Since you have an account now, you shouldn't be affected by blocks of these proxy servers. You said you've never edited Wikipedia before, so I put some links at your talk page, maybe you'll find them useful. If you have any questions, please let me know. --Oxymoron⁸³ 20:12, 10 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Primetime

Thanks for your help cleaning up after Primetime (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · nuke contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log). ·:· Will Beback ·:· 20:50, 10 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

No problem. --Oxymoron⁸³ 21:12, 10 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks

Thanks for blocking 59.101.44.187 (talk). They're vandalism was getting really annoying. Anonymous101 (talk) 10:32, 11 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for spotting that. --Oxymoron⁸³ 10:38, 11 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Brothers Cazimero

11:36, 31 January 2008 Oxymoron83 (Talk | contribs) deleted "Brothers Cazimero" ‎ (Speedy deleted per (CSD G7), only editor requested deletion.)

Hi. The Brothers Cazimero are a highly notable Hawaiian band. Can you please restore this article in my user space so I can look at it? Regardless of the user request, it should not have been deleted unless it was a copyvio. Thank you. Viriditas (talk) 11:12, 12 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Hello Viriditas, you created the article that contained only a {{WPHawaii}} tag and requested it's deletion one minute later. There's no content that can be restored, sorry. --Oxymoron⁸³ 12:58, 12 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

D'oh! I'm trying to followup on deleted Hawaii-related articles, and it's likely that some of them will trace back to me. Thanks for checking for me. Is there any way to get a list of all deleted edits? Viriditas (talk) 13:10, 12 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

You have e-mail. --Oxymoron⁸³ 19:07, 12 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Hey, thanks for taking the time out of your busy day to do that! Viriditas (talk) 03:15, 13 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Constant Vandalism

A couple of days ago you reverted some vandalism on my User page, and it keeps coming back, despite the fact I put the pp-vandalism template on the page. It started out by them (obviously someone who knows/hates me) putting "n00b" in my list of things I am/know how to do, and now it has been "relocated" to a comment at the beginning of the page, partially my fault for acknowledging the vandal in the first place. Why is is this still happening, albeit in the comment section, even after I placed yfull protection on the page?

Thanks, Anthony cargile (talk) 14:54, 13 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Only admins can protect pages, the addition of a template doesn't protect it. You can request page protection or unprotection at WP:RPP. I've protected your userpage for a month. Please remove the personal attack from your userpage. While I can understand you feeling annoyed, personal attacks are never appropriate, please stay civil. --Oxymoron⁸³ 15:54, 13 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Oh, thank you! I've removed the attacks from the comments, as the attacker shouldn't be able to mess with it anymore. Thanks a million! Anthony cargile (talk) 16:30, 13 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks #2

Thanks for the quick revert on my talk page. I was busy blocking the account. -- Gogo Dodo (talk) 17:23, 13 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

No problem, I noticed it at the block conflict :) --Oxymoron⁸³ 17:27, 13 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

And the revert of my user page. =) I suspect the same thing happened again. -- Gogo Dodo (talk) 05:44, 31 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Yes :) --Oxymoron⁸³ 05:50, 31 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Have this Award:

		The RickK Anti-Vandalism Barnstar
		Somehow, you've been beating me to reverting vandalism manually, and I have to admit, every time it says "Action complete" for me, it turns out that you reverted it! Well, anyways, have this barnstar. SchfiftyThree 17:42, 13 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you very much! I noticed the same problem with the "action complete" message. --Oxymoron⁸³ 17:48, 13 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Hip-hop

Sorry that was my little brother. I am going to get a Wikipedia account so this won't happen again. --24.1.205.187 (talk) 07:22, 14 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for fixing warnings

Thanks for fixing the problem on MediaWiki:Anontalkpagetext. Warnings are working fine now. Of course, I'm not leaving many warnings, because you're beating me to all the reverts. Keep up the good work. MANdARAX • XAЯAbИAM 08:22, 14 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

:) --Oxymoron⁸³ 08:30, 14 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Bollywood

Thank you so much for protecting it - I'm exhauted - I just came from a short break and had to see this mess all around. This user:ComingPresident has created quite a few edit wars since joining Wikipedia two weeks ago. Now I wanted to ask you - this user removed one entire sourced paragraph, could it be restored? I'll now try to talk to him. Shahid • ^Talk2me 19:43, 14 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Please engage in discussion first. If the paragraph you're referring to is well sourced, it shouldn't be hard to gain consensus for an inclusion. --Oxymoron⁸³ 19:58, 14 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Not reliably sourced anyway, the situation was more of a conflict than it needed to be however, discussion is exactly what I had suggested. Other articles like as Shadrukh Khan seem to attact unwanted edits and edit wars too as here. Perhaps you could put this article on your watchlist although you problably have about 15,000 articles on there at the moment. The guy is basically like a Tom Cruise or Brad Pitt of Indian cinema but due to the huge population of India probably has more fans worldwide in Asia. As you can imagine it attracts a lot of fan cruft. ♦ Dr. Blofeld ♦ ^"Talk"? 20:25, 14 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Not that much since I update my watchlist from time to time :) I've added that article to my watchlist. --Oxymoron⁸³ 20:37, 14 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Present

		The Original Barnstar
		For reverting that vandalism faster than fruit goes through an old lady. Ironho lds 21:27, 14 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

No problem. But I've been too slow to translate that edit he made to your talk page, otherwise I hadn't given another warning, and Iridescent beat me to the block :) --Oxymoron⁸³ 21:51, 14 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Pile on :) Gwen Gale (talk) 21:38, 14 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

oops!

be careful what you revert. you accidentally reverted an intelligent edit on Ice-T's talk page. Ironically you called it "irrelevant spam". Maybe you should have clicked the link first? no hard feelings,66.102.198.20 (talk) 23:02, 14 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Wow, I'm really impressed by the intelligence of this edit, how ever could I overlook that? Seriously, Wikipedia is not a forum, and this link is nowhere near a reliable source that can be used to discuss the addition of content to the article. --Oxymoron⁸³ 11:04, 15 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

sigh

Random IP Dude is from a locality close to mine (according to googling the IP address), and hit up my page again. He/She obviously knows who I am IRL... but is acting like a puss. Thanks for, ya know, thwacking... and do me a favor, and keep an eye out for him for me? I'm not on wiki that much lately, actual work and all. Thanks, dude. Qb | ^{your 2 cents} 13:39, 15 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I've added your page to my watchlist. --Oxymoron⁸³ 14:07, 15 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

thank you!

Thank you for reverting the vandal on my talk page! --ɔɹǝɐɯʎ!^Talk 12:24, 16 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

You're welcome! --Oxymoron⁸³ 17:43, 16 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Again

Sorry to bother you again, but some warrant on wikipedia deleted my user page, citing advertising. You had a look at my page, and yet you didn't delete it, so why did this guy?

Also, being new here, I don't know about wikipedia's deletion policy, but I was never forewarned about this AT ALL, so I had no way to correct it before it was deleted. And what really gets me is the fact he did it after I had the protection on the page you gave me, which by the way the vandal posted a very stalkerish comment (refer to it in the history) on my talk page, so I am dealing with something quite big here, and now the person is open to freely place slander on my user page one again, possibly even threats.

I don't want this, I don't need this, and I have no idea why any of this is happening to me. Is there anyway to just keep my user page permanently blank, or just placing one link to the "about me" page on my website without appearing as spam, and just leaving it alone, without any vandalism or unwarranted deletions? I know I'm taking this a little seriously, but, come on, I just don't want to be stalked like this nor having to worry about it, especially since I had a relative killed by a stalker in the 90's before cyber-stalking even existed, so I'm a little worried about this sort of thing.

Anthony cargile (talk) 19:51, 17 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Hello Anthony, I agree that he should have contacted you, especially since you didn't create the account for the sole purpose of advertising yourself, aren't unwilling to change the content of your userpage and he removed the protection from the page. I hope the issue is resolved to everyone's satisfaction now.

About the userpage vandal, best you revert and ignore them, they will go away automatically if you pay no attention. You might also leave your current account alone and create a new non-real name account (without mentioning your real name on your new userpage of course), but that's up to your decision. --Oxymoron⁸³ 03:26, 19 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Thank You

Thanks for reverting that vandalism on my talk page. I greatly appreciate it. T (Formerly Known as FireSpike) 05:46, 19 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

You're welcome! --Oxymoron⁸³ 05:49, 19 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Userpage vandalism

Thanks for reverting! Leonard^(Bloom) 03:31, 20 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

No problem :) --Oxymoron⁸³ 03:33, 20 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Missing headline #2

I want to create an article to honor my wonerful french teacher who is really an inspiring character.Can you help me on that? --Princesssansdoute (talk) 05:14, 20 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Hello Princesssansdoute, Wikipedia is an encyclopedia, and we have some inclusion criteria for articles. If you want to honor your teacher, you can say it herself or create a personal homepage somewhere else on the web. --Oxymoron⁸³ 05:20, 20 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Your userpage

Hi, I've just come across your userpage after seeing that you deleted an article that I'd CSD-tagged. Anyway, it might interest you to know that some of the PNGs you use on your userpage have been superceded by SVGs; namely, Image:UserIconContributions.png by Image:UserIconContributions.svg, Image:UserIconDiscussion.png by Image:UserIconTalk.svg and Image:UserIconE-Mail.png by Image:UserIconMail.svg. Just letting you know in case you'd want to change them. I didn't do it myself because editing other people's userpages is generally considered rude from what I have gathered. Hope you find my information useful! It Is Me Here (talk) 09:58, 22 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you, I changed the images. I consider changes to my userpage rude only when they are vandalism; constructive edits are always welcome ;) --Oxymoron⁸³ 10:42, 22 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

OK, glad I could be of help! It Is Me Here (talk) 11:01, 22 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

User:Redirect fixer

Thanks for fixing this bot's "fixes" to the redirects for Failure. It looks like this bot is constantly copying vandalism, so I think I might file a complaint. D: --Muna (talk) 06:22, 24 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Hello Muna, no problem. This problem is already reported as T17110. Regards --Oxymoron⁸³ 06:33, 24 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I think you see

that Planet should be protected until it is off the main page. Serendi ^pod ous 09:48, 24 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I saw only the one edit to the Main page's talk page requesting it to be unprotected. If I'd seen the other edits before, I wouldn't have unprotected it. While the Tfa normally shouldn't be edit protected, I suspect we won't get around a re-protection. --Oxymoron⁸³ 09:53, 24 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

sorry

hey just needed a part to talk to someone. i was gonna change it back. my bad

User talk:Bungholiooo

Looks like he's not interested in an unblock. De728631 (talk) 16:47, 25 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Even if he were, that interest would be unilateral ;) --Oxymoron⁸³ 16:56, 25 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

User:Kanyewestsilver confusion about block and block notice

Based on the edit history of User talk:Kanyewestsilver, it appears that this guy put the block notice on himself, then forged a release from same?... --Orange Mike | Talk 19:41, 25 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, he requested unblock and copied the {{Request accepted}} template below that request, probably assuming that this will lift the block. --Oxymoron⁸³ 04:55, 26 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks #3

For the quick block and revert on my talk page. Cheers! Keep your fork, there's pie (talk) 09:22, 26 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

No problem :) --Oxymoron⁸³ 09:26, 26 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Why did you delete PORT designs?

What is the difference with: http://wiki.riteme.site/wiki/Targus_(corporation) —Preceding unsigned comment added by Sergo (talk • contribs) 10:29, 26 August 2008

Hello Sergo, your article was written in an advertising style, what is contrary to our policy. Furthermore, you should cite reliable sources to establish notability. --Oxymoron⁸³ 11:04, 26 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Block of User:Tony Feld

Hey there Oxymoron, wanted to drop a line to say good call on the block here. Was wondering if you saw the contributions from User:Doy-doy people on Feld's talkpage; my spider-sense is tingling for those two. Perhaps confer with Discospinster, who blocked Doy-doy on the 24th? GlassCobra 04:00, 27 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Hi GlassCobra, good catch, I didn't pay much attention to it. Also their respective first edits are very similar. Maybe we can add User:Lewzair? --Oxymoron⁸³ 04:30, 27 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

WP:AFC suggestion on German fair.

Hi, Oxymoron83! Since you are German, and since you're one of the most trusted and respectable administrators in all of the Wikipedia, (if I might say so myself!) I figured you were the best person to ask. User:92.72.208.212 suggested an article on Cranger Kirmes, a German fair, in WP:AFC, and I wanted to know if the subject is notable enough for inclusion in an encyclopedia. I've copied the suggestion onto one of my sandboxes, here; could you please look it over for me? Thanks!!! Mess around with the guy in shades all you like - don't mess around with the girl in gloves! (talk) 23:19, 27 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I think it's notable due to long tradition (has origin in 15th century) and the size. A few reliable sources from national journals and many more from regional newspapers can be found, although they are only in German, what is not preferential, but acceptable. The English GHits I found only point to youtube & similar pages. In case you didn't notice, there's already a de Wikipedia article and Commons category for some pictures. I don't have time now, but can help you with this article later today. Regards --Oxymoron⁸³ 03:36, 28 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you very much!!! Mess around with the guy in shades all you like - don't mess around with the girl in gloves! (talk) 04:09, 28 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

My Feet Questions

Regarding human feet and toes, information about feet has to be credible even though it's highly disputed. Foot arches, feet and toes are in a major debate under many podiatrists and those that do feet and are experts. The trouble really, however, actually is getting the edits without vandalizing the articles and getting proper sources.

Foot arches are under serious controversy-the debates in foot arches are a major issue; there are debates regarding high arches, medium arches, low arches and flat arches.

I observed Toe as being constantly hit with vandalism, please tell me about that. And Happy Labor Day of 2008. Atkinson 12:05, 29 August 2008 (UTC) —Preceding unsigned comment added by Glenview bells (talk • contribs)

Sorry, I don't understand what your question is. --Oxymoron⁸³ 16:04, 29 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

sorry #2

we're really sorry we edited those articles. we thought that when we pressed save changes it would save them to our computer only. sorry for the trouble. (we were the ones who edited banana and cat)

hey budddyyy thanks for ur tips and stuff

User:1oddbins1

Hi and thanks for taking care of this. Any idea how to fix what's been done? Close to 2400 edits now, some are good, some are not. Yngvarr (t) (c) 12:18, 3 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Ideally one would write a script to turn the broken links into the proper disambiguated ones rather than reverting and changing the link again, that would save an edit to every page... --Oxymoron⁸³ 12:23, 3 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

my error

My sincere apologies for the problem caused by my use of WikiCleaner. I was using it to pinpoint pages in need of corrective action and was indeed viewing and fixing each individually. I wasnt aware of glitches or problems with the 'tool' and had no idea that it was automatically making so many inaccurate changes, entirely independent of myself. The realization of this dilemma is frustrating because I honestly contributed a significant number of accurate, productive edits. Thanks--1oddbins1 (talk) 22:17, 3 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Please be more careful in the future and check the outcome of your edits. --Oxymoron⁸³ 09:00, 4 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Test edit

I was testing whether mainspace pages can have subpages, that's why I created that test page. It's deleted. Axiomm (talk) 10:06, 4 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, they can. The mainspace is not a playground, you may use the test.wikipedia for your testings. --Oxymoron⁸³ 10:16, 4 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Hi

Can you delete this and then create the page again to point to the correct page here. That way the edit summ vand would not show up instead of deleting and restoring. The correct redirect is valid is it not? I dont know why someone didn't think of this redirect before and it had to be a banned user that did. Thanks Monster Under Your Bed ^(talk) 06:25, 5 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Done. The redirect was present before, but an admin didn't properly correct the vandalism and deleted this redirect at another page title. --Oxymoron⁸³ 06:36, 5 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks #4

Thank you for reverting vandalism on my user page. ■ MMXX^c.t 06:57, 5 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

You're welcome. --Oxymoron⁸³ 06:59, 5 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

CVU Anti-Vandalism Award

		CVU Anti-Vandalism Award
		For protecting Wikipedia users and articles from Vandalism, Thank you. ■ MMXX^c.t 07:26, 5 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you very much! --Oxymoron⁸³ 07:28, 5 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Scott Gordon

Please dont get rid of this page, Scott Gordon (smelly person). I dont know if its you thats doing it, but apparently its not notable or something. I dont even know what that is or understand it, it's not like anyone cares anyway. So please keep the page there, I want my friends to see it. (:

Iamsofunny (talk) 13:22, 5 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

We are writing an encyclopedia. If you want to create joke pages, try at myspace or get your own webspace somewhere else on the net. Also, please stop to vandalize other pages if you don't want to be blocked from editing. --Oxymoron⁸³ 13:45, 5 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Humani generis redemptionem.

Thank you, I basically agree, but as I tried to move the page, it did not work as the correctly spelled page already existed with a redirect. So I was at a loss what to do and simply exchanged information. It will not raise much concenr, as old encyclicals are not excactly high in traffic. Thank's--Ambrosius007 (talk) 12:09, 6 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

It's not a question of traffic, the question is if there's consensus to change the title, esp. as the other Humani generis pages are at non-capitalized page titles. You can explain your reasons for the title changes at WP:RM or a related Wikiproject page to gain consensus, and an admin will move the page afterwards without the loss of the page history. --Oxymoron⁸³ 12:23, 6 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks #5

[1] Saves me going to AIV - I was about to post a report when the block-notice came up. Cheers, ~ AmeIiorate _{U T C} @ 13:06, 7 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I'm always up to taking care of the database ;) --Oxymoron⁸³ 13:23, 7 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

FYI...

[2] —Wknight94 (talk) 14:47, 7 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you :) --Oxymoron⁸³ 14:49, 7 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Merit badge?

Thanks for the speedy reverts and protection [3] on my talk page. Is there a merit badge for admins who have been enough of a pain in the butt for you-know-who that they become a target for his redirect vandalism? Being targeted certainly makes me feel good like I have been doing a good job in my admin duties! Thanks again, Kralizec! (talk) 15:56, 7 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, you can regard this as appreciation of your work, you're doing that right! --Oxymoron⁸³ 09:30, 8 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you! #2

For giving me a hand with Mr. "" I_Wont_Do_It_Again_But_Ill_Just_Blank_Your_Talk_Page_Twice :) Excirial^{(Talk,Contribs)} 11:37, 8 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

You're welcome! --Oxymoron⁸³ 11:39, 8 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Houda Nounou

There is a problem and I saw you edit this page before so asking for some advice or to bring toyour attention. One page has been made about a person when a page about the person already exists!!!! http://wiki.riteme.site/wiki/Houda_Nounou & http://wiki.riteme.site/wiki/Houda_Nonoo I was going to do some additions but don't know what to do now with this one as where to edit? I don't know if you can help with this, or maybe you know someone who can do so. Thank you v. much for any help that is possible here.

10x10x10 (talk) 14:18, 8 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for spotting that. You can merge the contents of Houda Nounou to Houda Nonoo and state in the edit summary that User:Aridd is the author of that content (and make your own additions in a separate edit), or leave Aridd a note on the talk page, asking if he wants to merge himself. Then you redirect Houda Nounou to the other page by replacing the content with #REDIRECT [[Houda Nonoo]]. --Oxymoron⁸³ 14:28, 8 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you v. much for help. I will contact thuis person for help. Thank you. 10x10x10 (talk) 14:35, 8 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

You've got barnstar!

as confirmed here. NHRHS2010 | Talk to me 20:50, 8 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you very much! --Oxymoron⁸³ 08:26, 9 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks/Danke/Þancas

Good looking out on my user-page, fyle þancas (viele danken). As a German, hú gód canst þú Eald Englisc understandan? —Ƿōdenhelm (talk) 00:47, 9 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Understandan léohtlíce, būton ic náht cann wrīte. --Oxymoron⁸³ 08:26, 9 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

My userpage

Thanks I appreciate the revert. I'm on WP:IRC right now to get this guy stopped. —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 08:39, 10 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

You're welcome; already stopped them, the speed of the unconstructive edits was the determining factor. --Oxymoron⁸³ 08:43, 10 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Hatricide

Thanks! - NeutralHomer • Talk 12:46, 10 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

No problem. --Oxymoron⁸³ 12:54, 10 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Ubuntu

The protection on Ubuntu expired and the socks are back in force. --Bonadea (talk) 13:40, 10 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Hmm, it's around midnight in Australia, he should already be asleep ... Anyway, thanks for notifying me, I reprotected the article. --Oxymoron⁸³ 13:47, 10 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Why did you delete my photo?

08:33, 1 September 2008 Oxymoron83 (Talk | contribs) deleted "Image talk:GrandCanyonAerialViewByPhilKonstantin.jpg" ‎ (G2: Test page)

I had this on the Grand canyon page. You deleted it. Why?

I personally took the photo while I was flying over the Grand Canyon. I released it into Public Domain.

Return it.

Phil Konstantin ~~ —Preceding unsigned comment added by Philkon (talk • contribs) 14:20, 10 Sep 2008

Hello Phil, your photo was never deleted. I deleted the talk page for this image twice, because IP users created the page with random gibberish. --Oxymoron⁸³ 14:30, 10 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Nice!

Nice work on the block of 209.7.237.117 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · filter log · WHOIS · RDNS · RBLs · http · block user · block log). Your implementation of an eight hour school block strikes me as being both even-handed and fair. Kudos to you, sir! --Kralizec! (talk) 14:58, 10 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you. The intention was to get the current user of that IP blocked while keeping collateral damage for others low, as there are only few edits every some months. While most school IPs are used mainly for vandalism, I did not abandon hope that there are good pupils. --Oxymoron⁸³ 15:16, 10 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I fear that you and I are two of the very few admins who feel that way. :-( --Kralizec! (talk) 21:08, 10 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, unfortunately :( The blocking policy could also be a bit improved in this respect, but I guess it is too difficult for most admins to differentiate between dynamic, static, shared and non-shared IPs. --Oxymoron⁸³ 21:50, 10 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Request for Image Deletion

Hello Oxymoron83, I copied my images (1,2) to the Wikimedia Commons (1,2), can you please delete the original copies in wikipedia (if this is the right thing to do)? . After deleting the original copies in wikipedia, will the page look like (eg. this page) or not?
Thank you, ■ MMXX^c.t 15:13, 10 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Done. No, they will not look like the Wikimedia Community Logo after deletion, they will still look like the CVU Award :P --Oxymoron⁸³ 15:22, 10 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you very much, and what i meant was the Page Template not the image itself. Thanks again. ■ MMXX^talk 07:07, 11 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

You're welcome! I understood what you meant, this was only a joke ;) --Oxymoron⁸³ 07:34, 11 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

My Apologies

Sorry, i just found that website and it cracked me. I spent about 2hr reading through all the articles and he talked about Old Spice several times. I thought it would be good for Old Spice and that site. I apologize and will not do it again.

My apologies. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Atlscott (talk • contribs) 17:20, 10 Sep 2008

No worries. I added some links to your talk page, we look forward to your contributions. --Oxymoron⁸³ 17:38, 10 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Excuse Me

Excuse me, I don't mean to be rude, but you recently blocked a friend of mine when she was on my computer. May I ask why?

~~monkeygirl9689~~ —Preceding unsigned comment added by Monkeygirl9689 (talk • contribs) 20:39, 10 Sep 2008

Sure, if you tell me the name of the account/IP address that was blocked. --Oxymoron⁸³ 20:41, 10 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Not sure, she said she was on the pages Fire and Green (I have no clue why...) Does that help any?

It was maybe 10 minutes ago...

~~monkeygirl9689~~

Probably it was 209.188.52.202 (talk · contribs), who was blocked for 8 hours due to vandalism ([4], [5], [6], [7]) --Oxymoron⁸³ 20:50, 10 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

One to watch?

Here. The IP was involved in blanking a number of pages on Meta in the past few minutes. Cheers --Herby ^{talk thyme} 08:06, 11 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for notifying me. Looks like someone from this IP is creating socks, I noticed 138.217*136.17b (talk · contribs) and 138.217*136.17a (talk · contribs) here (already blocked). --Oxymoron⁸³ 08:16, 11 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Yep - that was it on Meta (CU there :)). Cheers --Herby ^{talk thyme} 08:23, 11 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

DX120

Thanks for this and this block. There is a 3RR report here. Darrenhusted (talk) 10:09, 11 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

No problem. I didn't notice the report, but closed it now. --Oxymoron⁸³ 10:19, 11 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for your help. Can I also ask you to look at this he keeps spamming pages with a myspace link. Darrenhusted (talk) 10:37, 11 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Done. --Oxymoron⁸³ 10:47, 11 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for your time on these matters. Darrenhusted (talk) 10:52, 11 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

You're welcome. --Oxymoron⁸³ 10:54, 11 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Unblocking my IP

hi, yesterday you blocked my IP (84.9.61.202) - could you please read the emails I have sent you regarding this? thanks Toby <email address removed>. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Bmovies (talk • contribs) 11:52, 11 Sep 2008

Hello Bmovies, Wikipedia can not be used for advertisement or promotion, see also WP:FAQ/Business. As long as you want to continue adding these links, this IP can not be unblocked. --Oxymoron⁸³ 12:12, 11 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Oxymoron83, OK, apologies, I wasn't aware of this. I shall not add any further links of this nature. It is likely, however, that I shall add links to the celebrities pages to their official websites (where they are not there already). It looks like this is OK? Can you confirm please? If it is OK, is there a way that I wouldn't be blacklisted again if I am doing a few of these at a time? thanks Toby —Preceding unsigned comment added by Bmovies (talk • contribs) 12:29, 11 Sep 2008

You can add links to their official website. If the links are in line with our external links guideline and if you discuss the insertion of a link another user disagrees with instead of continuing to insert them, you will not be blocked again. --Oxymoron⁸³ 13:41, 11 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

OK, great. Please unblock me, thanks Toby

Already done. --Oxymoron⁸³ 13:52, 11 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

you

If you are okay w/ someone who lied , cheats and steals...then I understand why you didn't like my comment.Otherwise leave it the F^&*&^% alone. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Johnnik (talk • contribs) 21:32, 13 Sep 2008

Thanks #6

Thanks for protecting my user page from the vandals. Techman224 (talk) 22:50, 14 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

You're welcome! --Oxymoron⁸³ 22:54, 14 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Barditch (Commenting on talk left on my page)

Barditch is reasonable jargon that goes back at least a century. If you don't like it, go tell your relatives. The dictionary is made up of such words that get added as they become common.. I've heard that liberals love to modify history so as to brainwash the future. For those who do this, I'd say shame on you, how do you know what the future will respect? BTW, I'm voting for Nader because the other two candidates have zero representative integrity, otherwise I'm voting Obama.. I'm Christian, but I see no reason in voting for anyone who is against abortion, people can change their mind, just go to a non-abortion pregnancy clinic run by women who didn't get abortions. If you are an individual, you should let your uniqueness be known, otherwise the lack of a unique identity will enforce stereotypes among those who love to categorize for the sake of justifying ones disposition. Is Wikipedia a source of information or is it yet another site on the web pushing individual agendas (in secret, under the radar, hoping to brainwash others)? --Rofthorax (talk) 21:55, 20 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Deletion review for Image:Stpauli2003dergan.jpg

An editor has asked for a deletion review of Image:Stpauli2003dergan.jpg. Since you closed the deletion discussion for this article, speedy-deleted it, or were otherwise interested in the article, you might want to participate in the deletion review. Tikiwont (talk) 10:26, 26 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for notifying me. Since you closed the deletion review in the meantime, it's a bit superfluous now: I reverted that edit by ME, who was banned for repeated copyvios esp. regarding images, per banning policy. --Oxymoron⁸³ 23:30, 26 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Deep Purple in Rock

Hi Oxy. I have just become aware that User:Joe routt has done a piece by piece cut and paste from Deep Purple in Rock to In Rock - and then User:Koavf moved In Rock to In Rock (Deep Purple album) and In Rock became a disamb page. I noticed that you got involved in editing because it appeared that an IP was attempting a crude cut and paste edit. However, In Rock (Deep Purple album) should be Deep Purple in Rock - as that is the name of the album.[8] [9]. What needs to happens is restoring Deep Purple in Rock to this edit, editing In Rock to direct to the correct Deep Purple article name, and returning In Rock (Deep Purple album) to this edit, all of which I can do. I'm letting you know, and I'll be letting User:Joe routt and User:Koavf know as well. I'd be happy for you to cast an eye over what I am doing to check that everything is OK, and that I am not making any mistakes. Regards SilkTork *^YES! 22:30, 1 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I've merged the edits that were made to the cut&paste copy with the original page history. When you merged the edits that were previously at In Rock (Deep Purple album) to Deep Purple in Rock (diff), you reinserted the notes at the track listing that were removed several times before. Maybe this was accidentally, could you please check this? --Oxymoron⁸³ 13:47, 5 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

If you are a German Male Nurse, why the male?

What allows for a German Male Nurse to edit articles from a United States Organization? Nothing. My judgment was without jurisdiction. I can't wait for subject matter jurisdiction laws encacted within the U.S. in a couple of years. The U.S. Attorneys like myself will dominate the regulations of the internet, your good faith attempt to counter my good faith editing based upon my own circumstances versus your arbitrary "regulations" will be destroyed. Granted, we will only be able to control access from U.S. portals; but where would the world be without U.S. portals? A male nurse with no experience, objective or subjective, does not have the right to edit or discount edits from a viable viewpoint. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.245.87.5 (talk • contribs) 06:41, 8 Oct 2008

You replaced the page with nonsense, what I reverted. You are not allowed to do that, no matter if you are a bored kid or an U.S. Attorney. --Oxymoron⁸³ 06:50, 8 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Page Move Vandalism?

What do you think of these edits Special:Contributions/Diete003? I tried to revert some of it but it's a little confusing. Matt (Talk) 07:41, 8 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Hello Matt.T, I've moved the article back to the original title. It looks like Diete003 is upset and has gone on a rampage, because another user edited "his" article. --Oxymoron⁸³ 08:18, 8 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks :) Matt (Talk) 09:18, 8 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

userdiete003 has removed all of his contributions to this page Ho-Chunk mythology, although I'm not sure if the earlier mentioned attempts at arbitration (Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard#Ho-Chunk mythology)have taken place or helped. I have stopped reverting his vandalizing edits until this is resolved, but he is currently vandalizing what is left of the page, the stuff he didn't add. I've asked him to stop on the talk page, but I don't believe he even looks at it, the only response I've gotten from him there was yesterday he blanked it after I left a post there. I keep trying to Wikipedia:Assume good faith, and not try to make any of this worse. Would you mind looking at the page and telling me what you think? I'm not sure how else to proceed. Thanks your time and for fixing the page last night/early this morning.Heironymous Rowe (talk) 05:07, 9 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Oxymoron

Reverting this edit, combined with your username, made me chuckle. Your reversion was not the oxymoron, however, the IP edit was indeed. Cheers. ^{XF Law}_{talk at me} 09:32, 8 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

lol ;) --Oxymoron⁸³ 09:35, 8 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Galatasaray

hi. i just edited galatasaray s.k and galatasaray a.ş but it didn't count.

the article on galatasaray a.ş is wrong. it is the company that manages the economic movements of galatasaray s.k.

i didn't understand how to change it, i will be grateful if you help me. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Neverlander10 (talk • contribs) 10:42, 8 Oct 2008

Hi, you cut&pasted the content of one page to another. This is not allowed, because it removes the original authors of the content from the page history, which are required by the GFDL. You can discuss the title of the page at its talk page, because Dogussahin probably disagrees. --Oxymoron⁸³ 11:04, 8 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks to you

for reverting the vandalism to my user page. Cheers! DoubleBlue (Talk) 04:59, 9 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

RFC Bates method article

I am contacting you quite randomly. For the following reason. The reason is the Bates method article, which in my opinion is edited by parties who are far from objective. Most logical associated party ophthalmology or a group focussed on just being skeptic. I am hoping for your comment on some current essential and interesting issues. Issues in which presenting objective strong arguments are completely neglected and ignored. If you have time and are willing to share you opinion and arguments, please do. My goal is to come to some kind of decision tool. By clearly stating if an argument is valid or not by the objective editor. My request is also to give a weight-factor for example between 1 and 10. For exmple1 for a valid argument but not very important and 10 for a very important argument. And zero for a fake-argument. Please feel free to comment and look at the current three RFC. Nr 1, Nr 2 and Nr 3 on the talkpage of the Bates method article. Seeyou (talk) 20:51, 9 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Red Horn (legend)

Would you mind taking a look at Red Horn (legend)? There is an editor making POV editions, original research, conflict of interest, etc. He wont respond on the talk page, he just keeps reverting everything I do to maintain the neutrality of the article. Heironymous Rowe (talk) 03:48, 12 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

209.175.69.2

209.175.69.2 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · filter log · WHOIS · RDNS · RBLs · http · block user · block log) This group of children are still vandalizing. Surprise surprise. JBsupreme (talk) 19:12, 13 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

hey

okay what is the semi-protection about? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 74.226.195.120 (talk • contribs) 15:56, November 25, 2008

WP:PROTECT#Semi-protection. Are you referring to a specific article? --Oxymoron⁸³ 04:53, 2 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Userpage

Hey, would you like me to semi-protect your userpage? That would keep off the anons and new users, who probably shouldn't ever be editing the page anyway. --El on ka 00:26, 26 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Hi, thank you for the offer. I could do that myself, but imho it's less bad when they hit my userpage rather than the talk page or article space. --Oxymoron⁸³ 04:53, 2 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Hi

I received your message. I do believe I provided a rationale for the redirect. The article I linked to is a high profile media release, whereas the current content of 'U2' appears to be a vanity page. I researched this so-called "band", and it was very hard to find information about them. Therefore, I am led to believe they are a non notable underground band, who are using Wikipedia to try to gain fame outside of their tiny Irish village. Please revert. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 124.185.42.104 (talk • contribs) 06:08, 2 Dec 2008

Sure! --Oxymoron⁸³ 06:11, 2 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Nice to have you back!

Hope you enjoyed your break away from the wiki, got your batteries recharged and are ready for another spell at editing the wiki. Best Monster Under Your Bed ^(talk) 08:29, 2 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you! Although the break started unplanned (PC problem), it was necessary and I prolonged it a bit. Regards --Oxymoron⁸³ 12:38, 2 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Archiving/removing stale warnings

Hi... when you remove stale warnings, as you recently did at User talk:216.11.55.3, please be sure to leave recent ones. Some of the ones you archived had been left in the last day or less. Thanks! ++Lar: t/c 14:36, 2 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

This was intended. In case I archive the warnings, I do this by years, otherwise it's imho too messy. When they will edit again - even in the unlikely case they're unblocked after some months - they will need a fresh set of warnings anyway, it's a highly shared IP. I can see no reason why it's useful to have these warnings there. Regards --Oxymoron⁸³ 14:56, 2 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

The last few warnings are good context in case the IP asks for an unblock, or if a CU such as myself is investigating, or whatever. (the reason I noticed this IP was that it was mentioned in an email related to an arbcom case, and when I went there, there was nothing... forcing fellow admins to look in the history when it's not needful. wastes their time) Hope that helps clarify matters. ++Lar: t/c 18:34, 2 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Well, that's why I provide the permalink to the version before archiving, so that you do not have to search in the history (nevertheless you should take a look, since IP users frequently modify or remove messages left). --Oxymoron⁸³ 14:54, 4 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Please justify your revert

Please justify this revert of my edit to Slang. Kindly review What Wikipedia is Not.

You told me in this talk page entry to provide a description when making edits, when I clearly did provide a description. However, you did not provide a description when reverting my Slang edit. I'm hoping that was a simple oversight. 75.45.106.248 (talk) 22:24, 4 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Hi, your edit removed the categories, interwikis and templates as well and your edit summary did not explain that. I agree that the external links need to be sorted out, but this is not done by blanking the entire section with everything involved. Regards --Oxymoron⁸³ 09:00, 5 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Whoops! Apologies for being careless. 166.129.6.81 (talk) 03:32, 6 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

No problem. --Oxymoron⁸³ 06:10, 7 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

turning star

the turning star for the 'awards' link is annoying 58.174.226.49 (talk) 10:18, 5 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

limbic system

Hi -- if you feel a need to revert edits that were made in a good-faith effort to improve an article, please always use a meaningful edit summary. In this case you are right on the substance, but anybody who reverts non-vandal edits without any explanation whatsoever is morally wrong. Regards, Looie496 (talk) 18:39, 9 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Hello Looie496, I find it more morally wrong to add emoticons or nonsense to articles. But you're right, it's really worth the time to type in a meaningful edit summary for such edits, this will help them very much. Would "Thank you for your effort to improve the article by replacing content with 'lksaf;lajsdlkfjsaldfjl;kasjdf;lkjasdfjaksfjdlkajsdf'. This is very much appreciated, but unfortunately does not comply with our policy about adding random characters." meet your moral requirements? --Oxymoron⁸³ 08:58, 10 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I specifically said "good-faith edits". Vandalism is different -- when somebody is simply trying to damage an article, the default edit comment is fine. Regards, Looie496 (talk) 17:19, 10 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Footnote: I wasn't aware that you're an admin when I made the first comment, by the way. Had I known that, I would still say the same thing (even more so in fact), but would have omitted the last sentence. Looie496 (talk) 17:22, 10 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Admin request

Well, after a lot of thought, I've decided to request something from you (or any other administrator). Could you delete my userpage, then move User:American Eagle/1 into it. It has some personal issues in it, and I made so many small edits to it months ago, when I first began here (link). Thank you. -- American Eagle (talk) 06:54, 12 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Done. Regards --Oxymoron⁸³ 07:02, 12 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

German text

Can you look at this new picture from the Deutsches Bundesarchiv and provide an translation for the English text? I ran it through Babelfish to get a rough understanding, but it's absolutely gibberish: the first sentence becomes "On invitation of the American president and Mrs. Ford were Federal President Walter cross-eyed and Mrs. Dr. Mildred cross-eyed about 15. to 20 June 1975 to a state visit in the United States of America." Thanks! Nyttend (talk) 23:17, 12 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Hello Nyttend, my translation is probably not perfect but hopefully better than the Babelfish one (at least they are not cross-eyed ;) ):

At the invitation of the American President and Mrs. Ford, the President of Germany Walter Scheel and Mrs. Dr. Mildred Scheel stayed to the United States of America at a state visit from June 15 to 20, 1975. They were accompanied by the Federal Minister for Foreign Affairs Hans-Dietrich Genscher. The visit program included stays in Williamsburg (Virginia), Washington D.C., Chicago and New York. During the visit, President Walter Scheel announced the contributions of the Federal Government to the United States Bicentennial: the setup of the "John J. McCloy Fund for German-American Exchange", the creation of a new chair at the New School of Social Research, New York, the setup of a visiting professorship at the Georgetown University, Washington DC, and the installation of a large projector at the new Air and Space Museum of the Smithsonian Institution in Washington. German President Walter Scheel speaks in front of both houses of the Congress at the Capitol.

If anything is formulated ambiguously, please let me know and I'll investigate again. Regards --Oxymoron⁸³ 07:30, 13 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

In the last sentence "in front of" maybe should be replaced with "to". He probably didn't speak in front of the building, but to the members inside the building. While the German original text can mean both, the latter is more likely. --Oxymoron⁸³ 07:51, 13 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

76.172.216.31

you will notice that this ip address has just blanked its talk page removing vandalism warnings (yours among them) Hmains (talk) 00:55, 14 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

It was probably a neatnik who cleaned up his talk page before he went away ;) --Oxymoron⁸³ 06:23, 14 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

SS on UAA

I only added users that were not blocked. At least, not as far as I can see. There were no block messages on their pages or such. I skipped the nazis that were already clearly blocked. ~~SIS~~ 23:38, 18 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Answered --Oxymoron⁸³ 23:49, 18 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I wasn't Copying

I just copyed a little bit i wanted to make call of duty world at war final fronts (ps2) i was going to change a little bit until you deleted it please let finish it but you hate it you could delete it please —Preceding unsigned comment added by Ohmygod766 (talk • contribs) 00:31, 19 Dec 2008

Hello, you are not allowed to copy&paste content without mentioning the original authors, because this is in violation of the GFDL. There is already a section at the main article, your changes should be made there instead. Since your account is not autoconfirmed yet, you can either propose the changes at the talk page, or you will be able to edit the article yourself in 2 days. It would be unprofitable to have two parallel articles about the same topic. --Oxymoron⁸³ 00:41, 19 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

WTF MAN

man i was just playing with my frends to see who makes thew best article... i was winning man u ruined the fun —Preceding unsigned comment added by Andehpants (talk • contribs) 13:41, 19 Dec 2008

Hey, I need your help

Hey there friend, I have become recently interested in helping Wikipedia agianst vandals.

I was hoping you could help me..

I can seem to get Twinkle or any other programs working.. Do you have any programs you use?

I dont not have Rollback permission, but apperantly Twinkle help..

Ive placed all I need in my monobook, and still nothing happens?

Should a window appear?

Please help me thanks

http://wiki.riteme.site/wiki/User:Frankie0607

--Frankie0607 (talk)

Hello Frankie, that Twinkle isn't working can have various reasons. Are you using Mozilla Firefox and did you bypass your cache (Ctrl-Shift-R)? I use WP:VF additionally. --Oxymoron⁸³ 13:52, 19 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks dude, Sadly the download links for VP arnt working, so if you can send me install files?

Yeah im using Mozilla Firefox, and I pressed (Ctrl-Shift-R), But nothing appear even after that.. WHat should be happening? --Frankie0607 (talk)

The download from the toolserver should work. When TW works, you should see some additional buttons at the top of each page next to the 'history' button and additional rollback links when viewing a diff (picture). Did you enable Javascript in your browser? What happens if you enable TW in Special:Preferences -> Gadgets? --Oxymoron⁸³ 14:42, 19 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Scientific Theories

You might want to delete Category:Scientific Theories, too. I was trying to categorize spontaneous generation, but I didn't know what category we use for old theories which have been disproved. --Uncle Ed (talk) 14:56, 19 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Done in the second after your message. Maybe you find a suitable subcategory in Category:Theories. --Oxymoron⁸³ 15:04, 19 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

You are so swift! Thanks, I'll rummage around there. :-) --Uncle Ed (talk) 15:09, 19 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Range block

How much of a problem would it cause to extend this to a week? I know nothing about range blocks so I have no idea if one that long would cause other problems. Cheers. CambridgeBayWeather Have a gorilla 15:28, 19 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Sorry, I was AFK for some minutes, I'm looking into this now. This block was based on 4 IPs, maybe the blocked range is too small (but it worked) - do you have some more IPs? --Oxymoron⁸³ 16:01, 19 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Sorry, away for a while. There are more listed at User:Sidonuke/RedPenOfDoom but that's not complete, as I forgot about it until earlier. Most of the edits have been oversighted now so they are hard to find. CambridgeBayWeather Have a gorilla 17:46, 19 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I looked a bit around in the meantime and think I found all necessary information. You can see the edits of 68.79.64.0/18 from the past 6 months here, there are occasionally good edits. Given the deleted and seemingly oversighted edits and those by logged-in socks that can be allocated to this range I found (which all don't appear at my subpage), I'm going to extended the block until Christmas. I'm also blocking 68.248.73.0/24 and 68.248.74.0/24 - all non-deleted IP edits from the past 6 months except those by 68.248.74.66 can be attributed to this vandal. I found 2 related IPs in the 68.249.0.0/16 area, but there are way more constructive edits from this range. -Oxymoron⁸³ 18:05, 19 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks. That deleted page makes intersting reading. It appears that there are multiple vandals on the same range. I see Gwarp/Hagger stuff plus the one calling himself the IP vandal, puts in stuff about epic fail and balls. CambridgeBayWeather Have a gorilla 19:57, 19 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

This is the same person, e. g. 68.79.99.45 hagger + TheRedPenOfDoom-harassment and 68.79.90.214 epic fail/IP vandal + TheRedPenOfDoom-harassment; or see the edits made during 2008-07-25 or 2008-10-25 where he uses multiple IPs within few minutes vandalizing with epic fail and hagger. Always doing the same vandalism probably became boring over time. --Oxymoron⁸³ 20:46, 19 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Ah, I never realised that they were the same. Partly because the only times I had dealt with them was over the epic fail, TheRedPenOfDoom and adding the phone number stuff. I'd noticed a few hagger stuff but just assumed that it was a copycat vandal. CambridgeBayWeather Have a gorilla 21:53, 19 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

It appears that they have recruited some friends. Listed at User:Sidonuke/RedPenOfDoom. CambridgeBayWeather Have a gorilla 03:16, 22 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Probably message board vandalism and/or some sort of anonymizer (193.95.151.196 Ireland, 202.79.209.80 Singapore, 212.62.97.23 Saudi Arabia). Unfortunately only blocking of the individual IPs and page protection helps in such cases. The good news is that I think I've found all IPs the vandal can get assigned from their home provider and listed at Sidonuke's subpage. I've blocked 68.79.164.0/22 as that has been abused yesterday and earlier (there are 5 good edits in December, next non-vandalsim IP edit was in early October) and 68.249.44.0/22 (~ 1 constructive IP user/month). --Oxymoron⁸³ 12:59, 22 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks. I tried a few things to see if I could find a message board but no luck. CambridgeBayWeather Have a gorilla 21:35, 22 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Toronto Lynx

Thank you for protective the page. --JonBroxton (talk) 19:20, 23 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Let's hope this helps and they loose interest. I also put the titles they created on my watchlist. --Oxymoron⁸³ 19:31, 23 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

CalPOP (Commenting on talk left on my page)

Please explain why you deleted CalPOP article. It is being reviewed for inclusion. It had been improperly deleted the first time after being up a year. The article has several references which it did NOT have a year ago. Please elaborate on why you do not think it should be included. After all this is the largest server company in Los Angeles and there are several other server companies such as RackSpace with similar wiki articles. --Rhoover69 (talk)

The page you recreated had the same content as that deleted per AfD. The concerns raised there were not addressed in your recreation (links to the company's home page aren't reliable), see also WP:CORP. Also Wikipedia can neither be used to advertise your company nor your band. --Oxymoron⁸³ 13:14, 24 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

CalPOP

You deleted the CalPOP article. The deletion discussion was just opened. I believe you may have seen the 2007 deletetion discussion. The 2008 deletion discussion would have shown that the article is fine. I believe it was speedily deleted because people say the old 2007 deletion discussion revealed that the arctile had no references. Subsequently, the arcicle has several references which is why it was up for a year. However I think that someone came through and saw the word DECEMBER and thought that was this december and not last december and accidentally deleted the article. I contacted the editor who deleted it and he basically admitted that it might be an error. CalPOP article had been up for 1 year with all the proper references in it. The deletion discussion that you referenced was not the 2008 deletion discussion but was the 2007 deletion discussion. The 2008 version of the article had been fine all this time and should not have been taken down. I believe the CalPOP article was incorrectly deleted because people saw the 2007 deletion article. Again- it was originally in 2007 taken down for no references but those were in it now. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 216.240.130.251 (talk • contribs) 00:26, 25 Dec 2008

I'm aware that the deletion discussion is from 2007, but, again, none of the concerns raised there were addressed by your recreation. The inc5000 link was taken into account at the deletion discussion, and links to the article's subjects own web page can not be used as a reliable third party source. Reposts of an article deleted per deletion discussion can and will be deleted. Besides that, neither the editor you contacted said it was deleted in error nor was there a 2008 deletion discussion. I suggest you again to read the pages I linked to in my above post as it doesn't seem you have done so far (esp. WP:COI, WP:CORP, WP:RS). --Oxymoron⁸³ 18:58, 25 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I did open a December 2008 Deletion discussion last week and it was never discussed. If the only reference you don't like is the one to the CalPOP website then I'll remove that one and leave the rest. There were no references at all in 2007 - so the Inc500 and Los Angeles Business Journal references were not considered - and all the references were added in 2008. I do not see any advertising unless you believe being listed itself is an advetisement. As to the CalPOP band-- if you go to lala.com you will see it is in the top 500 bands of all time. http://www.lala.com/#artist/CalPOP

banning

The ip address that you are talking about banning in response to the buckypaper vandilism is a proxy connected to roughly 18000 users if you ban this ip address you are preventing an entire us army installation access i doubt that will be possible. good luck —Preceding unsigned comment added by 155.215.21.2 (talk • contribs) 16:07, 24 Dec 2008

Not very much contributions, temporary blocks are possible without any problems. --Oxymoron⁸³ 16:10, 24 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Bobo

From User:Drewgillespie:

Hello, I set up the wiki page for Bobo and would appreciate for it to be kept up. The article was most likely deleted by NawlinWiki. I tried going to his talk page and he is "semiprotected." How am I ever supposed to discuss this matter with him if he is not open to messages? PLEASE HELP! I appreciate your time spent on these matters. I worked a long time on that overview/summary and if you need credible sources I will give them to you in pdf:

http://www.foxyproduction.com/static/dyn-files/1/1939.pdf http://www.foxyproduction.com/static/dyn-files/1/1940.pdf http://www.foxyproduction.com/static/dyn-files/1/1926.pdf http://www.philadelphiaweekly.com/articles/17365/a-e--editors-picks

The article was deleted by NawlinWiki, because it didn't indicate why this band/company is notable, which should be based on reliable sources, see also WP:BAND and WP:CORP. I deleted it, because more than 2 hours after creation the article still consisted only of a hangon tag. I've left NawlinWiki a note, so he may contact you on your talk page. --Oxymoron⁸³ 19:36, 27 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Dealing with sock puppets

Hi, I just saw you block User:Witguiota for sockpuppet abuse. I was just trying to figure out what the quickest way for a non-admin to deal with this (yet another sock of a known abuser). Listing on WP:SSP seems awfully long-winded; is there a quicker way to get an admin involved? Any advice appreciated.

Regards, Oli Filth^{(talk|contribs)} 18:27, 27 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Hi, you can report socks of daily active (banned) users like this one to WP:AIV (write "sock of User:Serafin" or something like this). SSP is not the right place when the socks are obvious and need immediate attention (because they will continue to vandalize until they're blocked). --Oxymoron⁸³ 18:46, 27 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]