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Hello RickK,

I am writing this to query as to the problem with my revision, http://en.wikipedia.org/w/wiki.phtml?title=History_of_Los_Angeles%2C_California&diff=7002980&oldid=7002811, and message on my talk page reminding about a Neutral Point of View. I wrote the revision because those are facts. The topic in the part I edited was about Los Angeles in the past 50 years, and the things I wrote in my revision are facts about new things in the past 50 years. I did add a few adjectives, such as "beautiful", and I can see how these adjectives may give a biased feel. If this is the case, I will be happy to remove them. I do not know exactly the reason for the revert, which is what I am inquiering about in this message. I can provide links to prove the facts I stated in my revision, should that be in question.

Thank you,

 Lan56 (Nov 1, 2004)

Hiya I saw you recent post at the village pump, and thought I'd come an teach you how you could have done it.

Firstly do a reverse DNS check to see the internet provider. If it's AOL give up. AOL is far too large, has far too many computers for you to ba able to block the vandal.You'll sucseed in blocking loads of legit users and probably won't get the actual vandal.

Assuming it's not AOL then proceed as follows,

64.12.116.10 through 64.12.117.22

Set the last digits to 0 64.12.116.0 ->> 64.12.117.0

do two /24 blocks 64.12.116.0/24 and 64.12.117.0/24 that will block a total of 512 IPs

Stick to /24 only if you are at all unsure about what you are doing. Note that /31 will block fewer than /24 and /16 will block a lot more. Never go lower than /16 ( I don't you you can in actual fact anyway) Also since range blocks catch innocents as well as vandals keep them short. Policy is 24 hours only I think.

HTH theresa knott 22:28, 21 Jul 2004 (UTC)

Cookies!

You always seem to be under a lot of stress, what with dealing with trolls and vandals and people who just don't get it. Relax and have a cookie. You'll feel better (food allergies excepted). -- Cyrius|✎ 06:18, 7 Aug 2004 (UTC)

Hi Rick, I'm signing off for the night - could you check out Montinia? May be a copyright vio, plus the user who created it is treating it like a sandbox at the moment. Krupo 07:00, Oct 28, 2004 (UTC)

It is my understanding (and I may be mistaken in this) that the naming policy to which you refer applies to proper names, not nicknames. For example, Typhoid Mary redirects to Mary Mallon even though the former is more widespread, because it is not a proper name. I would argue that the same is true of the name "Geronimo". Furthermore, whereas Bill Clinton voluntarily changed his name, Geronimo was given his nickname by very the people he was fighting. I urge you to reconsider, though if you still think the article should be at "Geronimo" I will defer to your judgement. -Didactohedron 07:59, Oct 28, 2004 (UTC)

I plan to add details there... vogon77 08:05, Oct 28, 2004 (UTC)

Alright, so I was wrong- according to Wikipedia:Naming conventions (common names), widely-known pseudonyms can function as article titles. Still, I think it is more appropriate to refer to the man in question as "Goyathlay" within the article; to use an example that's cited in the above policy page, the article Billy the Kid refers to the man as "Henry McCarty". -Didactohedron 08:28, Oct 28, 2004 (UTC)

Thanks for the info about double redirects. Kind of new to them. I'm up at 1:07 AM contributing to wikipedia, man this is crazy.

- mboverload

Thanks for the reception, but I have been here a while. I write on pretty much anything I know like hydroponics (wrote half of it) or TES Construction Set (wrote all of it) or IOGEAR (all of it) or Administrative shares (all of it but forgot to login when I posted). Ok, that was self-serving but I had to flaunt my stuff somewhere =)

Have seen you around alot, saw the list of the articles you have written and I am just blown away.

Anyway, I always use wikipedia to find out information now, way faster than sorting through google results. Thanks for doing such a service to the community. - mboverload

Rickk, as one of the (from what I've seen) more ardent deletionists w/r/t schools, I was wondering if you could outline your position on why you are against including schools. Two reasons I can think of to delete a school entry are 1) that the article is badly formatted, or 2) schools (generally) aren't notable enough. I was wondering if those are part of your rationale; and if not, what your overarching rationale is. I am merely inquiring because I want to find out why the more vocal school deletionists are against school inclusion. Thanks. Posiduck 00:51, 29 Oct 2004 (UTC)

I've never seen a naming convention like this on Wikipedia:Naming_conventions. What am I missing? --Viriditas 06:27, 30 Oct 2004 (UTC)

Seems like User:Oliver Pereira went through the pedia and reverted all of those in March of 2003. I could be wrong, but I don't think that convention is being used anymore. --Viriditas 06:34, 30 Oct 2004 (UTC)

FWIW, I left Oliver a message on his talk page. It's an interesting question. --Viriditas 06:39, 30 Oct 2004 (UTC)

I think Oliver is on a Wikiholiday. How would you feel if I moved the page back to No taxation without representation? Let me know. --Viriditas 23:34, 31 Oct 2004 (UTC)

Ok, will do. Thanks. --Viriditas 23:37, 31 Oct 2004 (UTC)

Why did you delete the "blah blah blah" reply to Feldspar? Please advise. 216.153.214.94 08:05, 30 Oct 2004 (UTC)

A mysterious, clueless, conservative anon that is infatuated with John Kerry and likes to say "please advise" a lot. Gee, I wonder who that could be...Ambi 08:07, 30 Oct 2004 (UTC)

Did you actually block 209.179.168.54 (last IP of the cereal/cartoon/mascot contributor who keeps re-editing TV Acres, Ross Bagdasarian...), or was "How many times do you have to be blocked..." a rhetorical question? Because, man, that user's been driving me nuts for a while now, too. —tregoweth 23:21, Oct 30, 2004 (UTC)

Good to know. I'll let you know if he starts getting out of hand again. —tregoweth 23:37, Oct 30, 2004 (UTC)

Just letting you know that I thought you might be interested in taking a look at Wikipedia:Votes for deletion/High schools, as well as what I wrote on Wikipedia talk:Deletion policy. —Lowellian (talk)[[]] 05:46, Oct 31, 2004 (UTC)

If he/she's vandalising loads of cartoons, would you like me to keep a particular eye on him/her? Or if you're an administrator, can't you block? Except actually, I wouldn't call the edit to The Adventures of Tintin vandalism, more just useless, but you're the expert. Anyway, the talk page was full of vandalism warnings, so I suppose... Please reply on my talk page. Thanks, --[[User:Gabriel Webber|Gabriel | talk]]

OK, I'll keep an eye on him. But two things, 1: does this mean that he's blocked so he'll be coming back on a new IP in a moment? And 2: How does one get a new IP? I don't want one, I'm just wondering. Thanks for your time,--[[User:Gabriel Webber|Gabriel | talk]] 08:05, 31 Oct 2004 (UTC)

Thanks for your help. I'll keep a lookout.--[[User:Gabriel Webber|Gabriel | talk]] 08:10, 31 Oct 2004 (UTC)

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I'm getting slightly irritated by people repeatedly unprotecting my user page for no good reason, and I see they are doing the same to yours. Do you plan to take any further action? Deb 11:54, 31 Oct 2004 (UTC)

With all respects, Rick, your user pages are not current targets of vandalism, and any changes you disagree with can be easily reverted. Your page may be about you, but it does belong to the Wikipedia. Casual user page protection is not an option for non-admins, so it should not be for you either. To quote Wikipedia:Protected page:

User pages and their subpages are frequently targets for vandalism, and may be protected upon request of the user associated with the page if there is a history of vandalism. Add protected user pages to this list. User pages should not be protected unless there is a history of vandalism, and should be unprotected as soon as practicable -- see Wikipedia:User page for more.

If you continue to re-protect this in the light of policy, standard practice, and other people's opinions, it can be construed as a misuse of your privileges. -- Netoholic @ 17:56, 2004 Nov 1 (UTC)

Hi, Rick, it's me again. I just had a message on my talk page, identical to the above. It seems to me like there is a little ring of people who have suddenly decided it's their job to check other users' pages and unprotect them. I'm a bit baffled as to their motivation, but it's getting on my nerves as I'm not having time to get on with making constructive contributions. Because there are several of them, it's difficult to make an arbitration request. Deb 18:32, 1 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Reply @ User_talk:Sam_Spade#.5B.5BUser_talk:Get_laid.5D.5D. Sam [Spade] 13:46, 31 Oct 2004 (UTC)

Apologies, still learning the ropes here :-) However, it's "Shakespearean", not "Shakesperean" - I've re-moved it accordingly. --Calair 00:28, 1 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Not any more. Thanks for the help :-) --Calair 00:36, 1 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Alberuni created a new page, "Israeli violence against Palestinian children", which I promptly moved to Violence against Palestinian children, and posted my reasons on the talk page, along with a NPOV notice. However, after reading the article several times and trying to figure out ways to improve it, I'm stuck wondering if this article has encyclopedic potential. Currently, it merely represents the opinions of one person, and that is bordering on original research. I've thought about putting it up for VfD, but I wanted to hear what you thought, first. I was under the impression that this topic is covered by other articles. Thanks in advance. --Viriditas 02:40, 1 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Oh, well. Cool Hand Luke has nominated it for VfD. I suppose it was only a matter of time. --Viriditas 09:52, 1 Nov 2004 (UTC)

• I am ATrivedi. How do I transfer it over to ATrivedi? Is it possible to search for "Amish Trivedi" and be directed to the ATrivedi page? Sorry about all this, but thanks!

OK RickK, I have written a stub in /temp, and will expand it when sorted out. Jeff Knaggs 15:35, 1 Nov 2004 (UTC)

RickK, I would like your input on my proposal (or some variant of my proposal) on the village pump. Thank you. Posiduck 23:15, 1 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Morrison PD apparently thinks Wikipedia is a repository for his own personal op-ed pieces. He created the article US president,george w bush which I promptly redirected, but if you read the original article you may determine if it qualifies as a speedy delete. Thanks. --Viriditas 23:29, 1 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Ok, will do. --Viriditas 23:36, 1 Nov 2004 (UTC)

I was told by an experienced user not to delete anything from my Talk page so I didn't. I understand that you say User:Rhobite ought not edit or alter remarks on a Talk page. That's exactly what he's done. And threatened to ban me if I reverted it. Can you clarify this for me? Reithy 03:36, Nov 2, 2004 (UTC)

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Why did you delete the concentrations section on the Ohio Wesleyan's page? If you were annoyed by the phone numbers, then get rid of the phone number and expand the substance about the departments themselves. Sections about Majors and Departments are fairly common on University profiles on Wikipedia, no??

--Pnikolov

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Hm, okay, I will keep that in mind for all pages. It is my impression by looking at various profiles of large universities (that have even information about every single of their dorms, e.g. Yale) that what you said about massive lists is inconsistent with what I've seen. I agree with your comment about phone numbers, though...

--Pnikolov

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The Senate article should be likewise reverted. Adam 08:29, 7 Nov 2004 (UTC)