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In responde to your question about original messages: I believe you can locate them at [[1]]--Ryan524 23:26, 25 Apr 2004 (UTC)

what is going on, one minutes it says i'm banned because i share an ip address with CoolDude, the next, i'm editing this page, well tring to, why don't you provide an email?--152.163.253.102 06:37, 17 Apr 2004 (UTC)

My email was being abused. I don't know why you're able to post. RickK 06:38, 17 Apr 2004 (UTC)

well i can edit now but i keep getting a link that says i have new messages then it goes to some user talk page for another ip address then i get it on that page put it goes to yet another uer talk page for a diffrent ip, their are about 3 or 4 none mine, thats wierd.--152.163.253.102 06:40, 17 Apr 2004 (UTC)

If you'd log in and create a user name you wouldn't have the problem of being blocked like that.

well i'll do that. thanks for all your help.

I posted and edited without a username for a while - what difference does it make, really? We're all just cyphers anyway... YankeeInCA 23:38, 18 Apr 2004 (UTC)

Hi. Would you unprotect heterosexuality? The users who care have reached some sort of consensus on the disputed paragraph, and I'd like to get this page up and running again. Thanks. Exploding Boy 08:26, Apr 17, 2004 (UTC)

Somebody beat me to it. RickK 20:07, 17 Apr 2004 (UTC)

I guess Martin switched his vote. It was 8-4 when I unblocked him, after it had been 8-1. Votes were coming in pretty quick, and I felt it would be best to try to avoid the "witch hunt" charges as much as possible, since a lot of people (me included) cast split votes. When the vote started to tip back, I told Silsor I (obviously) wouldn't care at all if he reblocked him, but that it would be up to him to do it. -- Decumanus | Talk 12:59, 17 Apr 2004 (UTC)

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Rick, since you are often confused with the controversial user RK, have you considered putting a note on your User page stating that the two of you are different people? A few other Wikipedians with similar names have done this. -- llywrch 17:53, 17 Apr 2004 (UTC)

By the way, sorry about confusing you with RK. It was foolish on my part, as I knew RK's first name was Robert...the notice on the user page should help. john 19:55, 17 Apr 2004 (UTC)

It should work now. I did
<div style="background-color:red; margin-right : 0px; margin-left : 0px; margin- top : 0px;"> <center><font color="#ffffff">PLEASE NOTE THAT I AM '''''NOT''''' [[User:RK|<font color="#ffffff">User:RK</font>]]</font></center></div>
Angela. 20:28, Apr 17, 2004 (UTC)

Because otherwise links will show up blue (or purple or whatever), so you need to tell it to make the normal text white, and separately tell it to make the link text white. Angela. 20:38, Apr 17, 2004 (UTC)

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640s Well okay then. What was in my head was, the 640s was for trends, and the individual 642 pages were for year by year listing. Dunno why. Made sense at the time. Ah yes, I wasn't going mad. 640s was formatted as early 640s and late 640, which I took to be the style. All done now. best wishes --Tagishsimon

8th April and everything from the USA - Rick, I think the point is not so much that nothing happened elsewhere in the world, but increasingly we are getting American events posted that have no interest to the rest of the world. 8th April has a few of these.

Chris Allonby (chris.allonby@ic24.net)

Oh, well. So you're saying if the only things of import happened in the US on April 8 we shouldn't report them because nothing happened anywhere else in the world? RickK 18:53, 18 Apr 2004 (UTC)

I'm not sure. I've asked this at Wikipedia talk:Requests for comment. I don't think it should stay forever, but I didn't want to delete it if there's policy I don't know about that says it shouldn't be. Angela. 20:57, Apr 18, 2004 (UTC)

I believe that the youngest peer is Benjamin Robert Joseph Craven, 9th Earl of Craven, born 13 June 1989, succeeded to the peerage in 1990. The youngest member of the House of Lords is Valerian Bernard Freyberg, 3rd Baron Freyberg, born 15 December 1993, succeeded to the peerage in 1970. The youngest life peer is Rupert Bertram Mitford, Baron Mitford, born 18 July 1967, created Baron Mitford in 2000. -- Emsworth 10:44, Apr 19, 2004 (UTC)

Viscount Selby was born in 1993. Lord Freyberg, by the way, was born in 1970 and succeeded to the peerage in 1993. john 17:40, 19 Apr 2004 (UTC)

from the pump

See Thomas Mackenzie. Is it legal to copy material from New Zealand government websites? RickK 06:53, 17 Apr 2004 (UTC)

Probably not. At the bottom of the page it says "Copyright to the New Zealand Prime Minister's Office 1999-2003", though other parliamentary offices often allow resources to be used for noncommercial purposes... Dysprosia 07:01, 17 Apr 2004 (UTC)

Copyright issues with New Zealand government agencies seem to vary. The specific permission from the Prime Minister's Office site says: "This work is copyright. Permission is given for fair dealing with this material as permitted under copyright legislation, including for the purposes of private study and research. Apart from those uses, no part may be reproduced without prior written permission from the Office of the Prime Minister." I've always interpreted that as excluding use on Wikipedia, but I could be wrong. It depends on what exactly is "permitted under copyright legislation", I suppose. -- Vardion 10:35, 17 Apr 2004 (UTC)

Sorry about the welcome to your IP. I don't need to welcome you to the site, but welcome to using Wikipedia while not logged in :-).  — Jrdioko (Talk) 00:16, Apr 22, 2004 (UTC)

Hi RickK.

I was blocked last night from editing (by you I think) but only from home. Here (at work) I'm fine. The issue was about some copyright vio, of which I am totally not guilty! I couldn't edit or even email you about it last night, even though I have a valid email address in my preferences. What't the deal?

best

Robinh 08:10, 22 Apr 2004 (UTC)

You ask on your page for information whether you are welcome here. I would not go as far as saying that you are not welcome, but adding a link to the "free"republic to "information" in the article about John F. Kerry does not seem to make much sense in my eyes. Especially if the original source is known and has the same information as a wiki source already listed. Get-back-world-respect 11:00, 23 Apr 2004 (UTC)

Hi. Please don't advise users to deleted copyrighted text from articles listed as possible violations. Instead direct them to create a new article without copyrighted text in a Article name/Temp (temp) location. Copyright violations must be deleted and cannot remain in page history. - Tεxτurε 16:39, 23 Apr 2004 (UTC)

If you had read the Ninfa's page, you would realize why it would deserve a WP article. Few U.S. based restaurant chains get to open a restaurant in Germany. WhisperToMe 23:34, 23 Apr 2004 (UTC)

I'm opposed to articles on unimportant commercial institutions in general. RickK 23:34, 23 Apr 2004 (UTC)

I just don't think it's all that POV to assert that "to be" is a basic verb. Is, are, am...those are pretty fundamental. If he was parsing antidisestablish it wouldn't have been so silly. :) jengod 00:11, Apr 24, 2004 (UTC)

Well, the whole thing is arguably a slap at Clinton, who I love to death, the poor *******, but I'm not sure that highlighting to be's simplicity is the thing that kicks it over the fence. :) jengod 00:21, Apr 24, 2004 (UTC)

You recently posted a change to the Lar article in which you deleted something an anonymous user wrote. Point of order. What he said was pretty accurate. I know because I've read up on plenty of Lar writings. I have no idea why you deleted, other than you felt it was an opinion. It wasn't. I don't know what else to say, because I have no clue what you were thinking. [[User:vaketer[vaketer]]

from the pump

THe article at Michael Johns is copied from the Disinfopedia article at http://www.disinfopedia.org/wiki.phtml?title=Michael_Johns. If they are GFDL, how do we reference that fact? RickK 03:41, 15 Apr 2004 (UTC)

Just like we do with Wikinfo articles, see Jay Lovestone as an example.--Eloquence* 04:00, Apr 15, 2004 (UTC)

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First of all, love the user page. Very funky. Can you please view the discussion taking place between myself and User:SimonP on Wikipedia talk:Votes for deletion about signing entries on vfd? I ask because you have complained before, and he is of the opinion that because he's said he's right to do that on the talk page and nobody's complained, then that means he can go ahead and continue. Cheers. -- Graham  :) | Talk 14:46, 24 Apr 2004 (UTC)

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Can't you read the history correctly? I did not revert four times in 24 hours. However, Gene Poole did. --(Wik) 04:31, 25 Apr 2004 (UTC)

In the time it took me to realize I posted an article in the meta section by mistake, and myself realizing I had made a mistake, you had already caught it.

I'll use the excuse that it's far too late where I am. I had just taken the last URL I had up and changed it to the new article, forgetting to drop the "wikipedia:" prefix. Thanks for your vigilance in any event though. :) -- Kowh 06:48, 25 Apr 2004 (UTC)

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Hello RickK

thanks for your message. How do I tell what address I was using when I was blocked? All it said was "User ID ***.***.***.*** is blocked" (where the X's are the numbers I can't remember) and now that I'm not blocked I can't figure out how to get the IP address.

cheers

Robinh 19:35, 25 Apr 2004 (UTC)

Hi again RickK

thanks for your reply. I'll write the number down next time!

best

Robinh 07:40, 26 Apr 2004 (UTC)

Rick, I have asked Wik to stop and he seems to have complied. If Cantus reverts again (and his edits on Central Asia and Mongolia are incorrect), I will block him. Danny 03:07, 27 Apr 2004 (UTC)

Okay, so let's leave it at that. In this case, looking at the edits for Central Asia and Mongolia, Wik seems to have been right. While this is not a justification for a revert war, it should be considered in his favor. I am not sure I understand the other revert wars. Danny 03:12, 27 Apr 2004 (UTC)

RE:Lord Rishartha, you can block it for indefinite if you like. They can simply sign up for a new name if they a) wait 24 hours or b) re-dial their modem, so blocking for a longer time won't do much good. They have been causing problems under various names for some time know. Maximus Rex 05:34, 28 Apr 2004 (UTC)

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Chicken. 172 05:59, 28 Apr 2004 (UTC)

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I'm leaving as soon as you block me permanently. I can't believe that it only took you a couple of minutes to back down. I guess that's when you figured out that you'd be getting into more trouble than I would. 172 06:09, 28 Apr 2004 (UTC)

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Thank you :) Dysprosia 23:19, 28 Apr 2004 (UTC)

I deleted perhaps a bit hastily (because you can't trust the Page History flag anymore with the new {{msg:delete}} thing that people add now), and I tried to revert, complained about it not working on the talk page asking if someone could revert it properly and you just did - so it probably was unintentional, but thanks anyway :) Dysprosia 23:25, 28 Apr 2004 (UTC)

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What are you doing blocking an AOL proxy with indefinite expiry time? You realise you have just blocked all of AOL from editing a certain set of articles? -- Tim Starling 00:17, Apr 29, 2004 (UTC)

OK, here's how to determine if it's an AOL proxy. If you have access to a machine running a unix related operating system, you can use the "host" command. Otherwise, go to http://www.network-tools.com . Paste in the address and click submit. It tells you that the address in question, 198.81.26.106, has a hostname of cache-ntc-ad05.proxy.aol.com. Interpreting hostnames is a bit of an art, sometimes it can be ambiguous. But for AOL proxies, it's pretty clear. AOL splits up their traffic by URL, so you've now blocked all AOL users from editing your talk page. Probably around 5% of the rest of Wikipedia is also blocked. How you deal with insults is your problem, don't make it everyone else's. -- Tim Starling 00:32, Apr 29, 2004 (UTC)

Good for you. I often can't believe how much abuse you take for the good of this place.. You are the "Thin Rick Line" that is a large part of what separates Wikipedia from being a piece of crap. You are stronger than me. Fighting vandalism earns me nothing but flack. Yesterday I found myself being scolded by a 13-year-old boy for being too hard on the newbies. I think that was the last straw. I believe I'll let him deal with them from now on. -- Decumanus | Talk 04:45, 29 Apr 2004 (UTC)

There is way too much acceptance of trolling here. I'm not justifying blocking AOL proxies, but I just want to say that although people might complain about you doing that, doesn't people aren't also grateful for the work you do in defending against vandals. Angela. 06:15, Apr 29, 2004 (UTC)

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Re: 1996

Hello. I made rather a hash of trying to turn the Clean Break document into a link. However, I think I got there in the end. Am I to assume that if I turn it into a link again you will revert it again? Or was it just the messiness of the attempt you objected to?

I'd hoped to provide an article on the document. Let me know if you object to this in principle.

Otherwise, sorry for the mess, it was my first day of editing - just my luck to choose something with quote marks and a comma to throw me.

--bodnotbod 13:26, Apr 29, 2004 (UTC)

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Do you know how to report this as not working? The user you just blocked has been blocked once before this evening by Maximus Rex already, and another user I tried blocking just carried on regardless on the same ip. It appears to me that something's amiss somewhere. -- Graham  :) | Talk 02:36, 30 Apr 2004 (UTC)

User:192.195.64.72. If you compare their edits to the entry in the block log where I tried to block them you'll notice it had absolutely no effect. I've brought this up at vandalism in progress and at the village pump, but have received no response with regard to this issue in particular. -- Graham  :) | Talk 02:41, 30 Apr 2004 (UTC)

Is there something wrong with the "msg" translation? PUtting msgs on pages doesn't cause them to be translated. RickK 05:32, 27 Apr 2004 (UTC)

Such as where? I haven't noticed anything. Dori | Talk 05:36, Apr 27, 2004 (UTC)

I tried adding msg:protected to Schnorrer and it wouldn't translate, but it seemed to work when I did it again. But there were a couple of other cases earlier today that I don't remember right now. RickK 05:40, 27 Apr 2004 (UTC)

I think you had a space in between msg: and protected the first time, that's probably why. Dori | Talk 05:45, Apr 27, 2004 (UTC)

I moved this from the village pump in case you hadn't seen it yet. Angela. 07:32, Apr 30, 2004 (UTC)

Rick I will not file a lawsuit againest wiki. simple as that.--Plato 21:22, 1 May 2004 (UTC)[reply]