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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)

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)