User talk:James Maxx/archive 1

Username

Hey. You should of just went through requests for changing username to change your username from TJ Sparks to James Maxx. When you created James Maxx, you left all of your edits on the TJ Sparks account. Too late now, I guess. --  Mikedk9109  (hit me up)  22:41, 11 December 2006 (UTC)

Redirect

Though I can't move your contributions, I you'd like I can redirect User:TJ Sparks and User Talk:TJ Sparks to your new pages. Cheers, -- THL 01:09, 15 December 2006 (UTC)

No problem, I'll take care of it now. Cheers, -- THL 04:33, 15 December 2006 (UTC)

For some reason, the user page redirect isn't working, but the talk page one is. I'm going to do a little research as to why. -- THL 04:37, 15 December 2006 (UTC)

It works now. Cheers, -- THL 04:41, 15 December 2006 (UTC)

Happy to do it, -- THL 04:44, 15 December 2006 (UTC)

RVD

If a moonsault is done off of the turnbuckle, by definition it isn't considered a springboard moonsault. If you are talking about the split-legged moonsault, then it is already in there. As far as the leg sweep goes, feel free to add it. He does use the move on a regular basis, and he is famous for his leg work so... -- THL 05:00, 15 December 2006 (UTC)

Feel free to add the regular moonsault. ECW World Heavyweight Championship is what is written on the title belt itself; therefore, that is what the article is named. Cheers, -- THL 01:49, 16 December 2006 (UTC)

Responses

I don't feel like you're dumping anything on me. This is the kind of stuff I fix, so I'm happy to help. I'll get on this stuff right away. -- THL 08:33, 17 December 2006 (UTC)

User:72.186.252.199 is a good editor. I have watched this anon since he first started, and he is one of the few anons who we can wisely assume good faith with. Just add the Buzzkiller back and let him work; he does a good job. If he removes it again I'll talk to him. I'll get to the RVD moves after I finish. Cheers, -- THL 08:47, 17 December 2006 (UTC)

I've taken care of everything that I can. There isn't anything I can do about the Damaja. So many people have tried to talk to him, including the god of WP:PW himself (User:Paulley). All we can do is wait for him to screw up the timing of his edits and get blocked. The timing is really the only reason he hasn't been blocked yet. Thanks for commenting on the Euro Champ thing, and I'll get to RVD's moveset now. Cheers, -- THL 08:54, 17 December 2006 (UTC)

You did a great job on RVD's moveset. By no means did you add too many moves. Cheers, -- THL 08:58, 17 December 2006 (UTC)

For example, this is the text I use for my signature. [[Special:Contributions/The Hybrid|<font color="Blue">T</font>]][[User:The Hybrid|<font color="Red">H</font>]][[User Talk:The Hybrid|<font color="Green">L</font>]]. Now for a step-by-step explanation with a simpler example. This is blue. I got that by typing <font color="Blue">This is blue</font>. You get text of a different color by typing <font color="(color)">INSERT TEXT HERE</font><nowiki>. You make links a different color by typing <nowiki>[[ARTICLE NAME|<font color="(color)">INSERT TEXT HERE</font>]]. You do this to your signature by going to this link and finding you signature. You select Raw signature, type the text that you want into the signature section, save your preferences, and purge the server cache. If you need any further explanation let me know. Cheers, -- THL 09:11, 17 December 2006 (UTC)

I have to go, but I'll be back on tomorrow. Cheers, -- THL 09:13, 17 December 2006 (UTC)

Ohh, you wanted a background color. I thought that you only wanted to change the color of the words themselves. Sorry about that, and I like your new sig. Cheers, -- THL 18:47, 17 December 2006 (UTC)

To change your user name, you go to WP:CHANGE and follow the directions on that page. Cheers, -- THL 01:52, 18 December 2006 (UTC)

I would ask the person who moves your current name. When they move you to your new name, the contributions from this name will be moved over to your new name. I don't know if the Sparks contributions can be moved, but I would ask the mover. The mover will be a bureaucrat, so they would know if it is possible. Cheers, -- THL 02:35, 18 December 2006 (UTC)

Re: Usernames

Hi. Unfortunately, we do not have the ability to merge contributions from different accounts. It is a limitation of our software. When a user is renamed, which is what we can do, all the edits made with that account are automatically reassigned to the new username, but if you have made edits from other accounts the best that you can do is place a note on the accounts' user pages, or even make them redirect to your main account user page, just so as to make it clear that the accounts are controlled by the same individual. But it's not possible to merge account histories. Regards, Redux 03:07, 18 December 2006 (UTC)

Realistically speaking, I'd say that the chances that someone would register the username "James Maxx™" are slim to nonexistent. And if this were to happen, we'd have to ask the person to change their username, due to excessive similarity to your own, a preexisting account. So I'd say you needn't worry about that. Cheers, Redux 21:32, 19 December 2006 (UTC)

Responses II

I responded to your question about the corkscrew moonsault on Nitro's talk page. I also left invisible messages in the name of the move itself. If the IP changes the name again let me know, or feel free to give the appropriate warning yourself. Cheers, -- THL 05:23, 18 December 2006 (UTC)

You explained it perfectly. Cheers, -- THL 04:11, 19 December 2006 (UTC)

Making a username

Hey, I saw your message. I will consider making a username. I don't usually edit that often, but if I continue to do it a lot I'll probably make an account. Thanks for the suggestion & help. :) 141.151.88.124 18:48, 20 December 2006 (UTC) 141.151.88.124

Hello again, thanks for all your help. I looked through my editing log and I did edit a lot more than I thought. Though there is one thing I never edited, I don't know how it got there.. The Yards Brewing Company, which is odd.. But anyways, thanks again. :) 141.151.88.124 18:48, 20 December 2006 (UTC) 141.151.88.124

The Damaja

I've finally found a template that we can use to deal with this person. {{longterm4im}} works around the time constraints I mentioned before. If you see him destroy anything again, please let me know or give him the warning yourself. Cheers, -- THL 23:32, 20 December 2006 (UTC)

Yep. Create a subsection titled Your Edits on his talk page. Type {{subst:longterm4im}} ~~~~, and be done with it. The next time he destroys something after receiving that warning, no matter how long it is after that warning, just report him to WP:AIV and let the admins work their magic. Cheers, -- THL 04:17, 21 December 2006 (UTC)

I just saw that! I reported him to the AIV board after he altered your Rolloing Thunder vs. Somersault edits to the RVD article. Chances are he'll be gone soon. Cheers, -- THL 00:12, 22 December 2006 (UTC)

Since he didn't vandalize since his last warning they removed him from the AIV list without blocking him. The next time he vandalizes immediately report him to WP:AIV. I would help you clean out his contributions, but I have a lot of vandalism on my watchlist. Cheers, -- THL 01:21, 22 December 2006 (UTC)

I've already reported him actually. For some reason the admins aren't checking the AIV board. Just watch him until he gets blocked. I'm currently buisy with User Talk:Sweetness158 and User Talk:68.39.73.66. They are the same person. You take the Damaja while I deal with this person. Cheers, -- THL 03:24, 22 December 2006 (UTC)

Hopefully. They may not consider what he is doing vandalism, but they haven't had to deal with this user in the past. He knows full well that what he is doing messes stuff up, but he doesn't even care. Hopefully having 2 users report him will make them understand. Cheers, -- THL 03:40, 22 December 2006 (UTC)

I saw it. I've sent a more specific message to Damaja, and I sent a message to the actual admin. Let's see how this plays out. -- THL 04:18, 22 December 2006 (UTC)

If you can think of anything else to say to Damaja and/or the admin, please do so. -- THL 04:36, 22 December 2006 (UTC)

Dude, you made 2 mistakes. #1, you called him lazy, #2, you told him to ask us. If he sees everything we have been planning to do revolving around getting him blocked, he may go ona vandal spree. Archive your page NOW. WP:ARCHIVE -- THL 05:08, 22 December 2006 (UTC)

Your report on WP:AIV

I don't see anything in this users recent edits which is clearly vandalism. The contributions all seem to be stylistic changes to articles about wrestling or associated with it. I see primarily boilerplate warnings, with only one or two very very brief messages telling the user to read Wikipedia:WikiProject Professional wrestling without telling them what they are supposed to read.

If the edits are going against stylistic conventions adopted by a WikiProject, I suggest that you explain those stylistic conventions to the user, how their edits are not complying with them and where to discuss the conventions if they disagree with them. --bainer (talk) 03:49, 22 December 2006 (UTC)

Replies

Well, I'm surprisingly cheerful seeing as I just got some bad news. The admin decided that this was a content dispute, which I've realized is true. What this means is that this person won't be blocked for vandalism now, or ever. This person will have to stop on their own, or we will have to take this through the dispute resolution process. This means that our job just got way harder since this person never responds to anything. I'm going to do some reading and examine our remaining options after checking my watchlist. Cheers, -- THL 07:13, 22 December 2006 (UTC)

Upon further investigation, it turns out that what I meant as an exaggeration is true in the most literal way possible. He has absolutely no talk page edits. NONE. I still have some reading to do, but we are dealing with an editor who has no interest in the community side of Wikipedia, and most likely intends to ignore it thinking it will just go away. This is a big problem, and I have no idea how to solve it. Cheers? -- THL 07:31, 22 December 2006 (UTC)

I left a comment on the WP:PW talk page. He already had his own section. Hopefully someone will come up with an idea. If not, I guess that we revert him until he gets bored with Wikipedia and quits entirely. -- THL 07:53, 22 December 2006 (UTC)

I messaged Paulley himself. The way I see it, he is one of our last hopes. If he can't come up with something, I'll contact one of my admin friends and try to explain the entire situation to them. However, admins are help to a large amount of scrutiny and a very strict code, so I doubt that they would block him based off of our testimony alone. I'm not entirely opposed to trying your idea, but I will only go for it after we have exhausted all of our other resources. That is the kind of thing that could get us blocked if we get caught by someone who knows nothing about the Damaja, and I don't exactly want to risk it if we don't have to. We have a few outs left, and I intend to use all of them before trying to contact him by using the actual articles. Let's let this thing play out. If you haven't already, enable navigation popups. They make reverting vandalism much easier, and they are available to everybody. They will save you a lot of frustration, and a lot of time. Let's wait for this thing to play out a little further. Cheers, -- THL 03:45, 23 December 2006 (UTC)