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Great power

Have you tried to understand what the dispute is about? What about the sources? Not worth. You want original research in Wikipedia. Even then India will be in the list. Can be in the Great power list but still not an absolute power to challenge the U.S can be put in the emerging power list. The same will apply for Britain, France and China.Chanakyathegreat (talk) 04:42, 6 July 2008 (UTC)

I've glanced over things, yes; however, my role here is not as a party to the dispute. I've protected the page to prevent edit warring, and to encourage involved parties to discuss the matter on the article's talk page. Please do so. – Luna Santin (talk) 08:39, 6 July 2008 (UTC)

Re: Unblock

I have left a note on the users talk page. Thanks for dropping by! Scarian^{Call me Pat!} 12:31, 6 July 2008 (UTC)

Thank you!

Thanks for cleaning up the tables in List of Judy Garland awards and honors. I appreciate it! Otto4711 (talk) 22:51, 6 July 2008 (UTC)

Glad I could help. :) – Luna Santin (talk) 23:01, 6 July 2008 (UTC)

merging again

Thanks for "pumping" the issue. You might want to look at 'Lists of environmental topics' that has been in place for some time now - there are possibly many other pages like this, formed as part of the Wikiproject 'Lists of basic lists'. For sustainability there is, of course, a list of categories (about 16 I think) and a list of articles (173 I think) - this list of articles fits very nicely on one page. However, the net of connections extends way beyond this list - to possibly several thousand. I am prepared to put these together, and although this sounds a bit megalomaniac it will be a great resource for users of Wikipedia. In working on the topic I for one would give an arm and a leg for such a search list - and there would be many more like me. If you think this point is valid or useful could you add it to the "pump" please? Granitethighs (talk) 23:48, 6 July 2008 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/In Popular Culture

Please reconsider your peremptory close of this AFD since this action seems more a case of WP:STEAM than WP:SNOW. Colonel Warden (talk) 08:52, 7 July 2008 (UTC)

As I said, "I may reconsider this decision and allow the AfD to proceed if reliable, third party-published sources discuss the phrase in a manner that is both encyclopedic and not isolated to Wikipedia. Such sources, if any, can be presented at my talk page." – Luna Santin (talk) 08:55, 7 July 2008 (UTC)

You do not own this article or topic. The AFD discussion is the proper place to make such points and this cannot proceed while it is prematurely terminated. Do you refuse to reopen the discussion? Colonel Warden (talk) 11:58, 7 July 2008 (UTC)

Never claimed to own it. Can you demonstrate there's some point to continuing the discussion (ie: those sources I asked for)? – Luna Santin (talk) 12:00, 7 July 2008 (UTC)

I am unable to address the topic properly since you have deleted the article already. I shall now take the matter to DRV. Colonel Warden (talk) 12:39, 7 July 2008 (UTC)

I agree with Colonel Warden per the comment by myself and (more importantly) Zelmerszoetrop's comment that:

" COMPLETELY apart from the xkcd references, one has to admit that the phrase "In Popular Culture" has gained widespred notoriety on wikipedia, message boards, and various other internet meme carriers "

(emphasis added by me) I will be asking Zelmerszoetrop and/or looking into this myself, but i think that reopening the AfD would encourage others to share their knowledge in that area, too. ~ FerralMoonrender (T • C) 22:41, 7 July 2008 (UTC)

Sources, sources, sources. Preferably reliable ones suitable for encyclopedic content. Do you folks have them, or not? – Luna Santin (talk) 23:07, 7 July 2008 (UTC)

With no intent to badger you about this, I would like to present:

• Law in Popular Culture Collection from the University of Texas at Austin
• "Women in Popular Culture", an article by a faculty member at Georgia College & State University
• The Arctic in Popular Culture", a site maintained by a member of the faculty at Rhode Island College
• Albinism in Popular Culture, a website
• Image of Libraries in Popular Culture, a site hosted by NYU
• The Image of the Journalist in Popular Culture, "A Project of the Norman Lear Center" by USC Annenberg
• The book "God in Popular Culture"
• Planet Mars in Popular Culture
• Jefferson in Popular Culture on the non-Wikipedia/Wikia-related "Monticello: Thomas Jefferson Wiki"

all from a cursory google search for the phrase "in popular culture". I belief an article could be written about how "In popular culture" has become a genre of article. Humbly, ~ FerralMoonrender (T • C) 23:19, 7 July 2008 (UTC)

Obviously you're more than free to take this to Wikipedia:Deletion review at any point, and should surely keep these links in mind if you do; as time passes, the xkcd comic won't be bringing in so many people pushing agendas, and it should be easier to have a more reasonable debate on the subject.

I very sincerely appreciate your effort, so I hate to say this: you've found sources regarding law, women, the Arctic, albinism, libraries, God, Mars, and even Jefferson, as those subjects relate to popular culture... but none of those sources discuss the phrase "in popular culture" in an encyclopedic context. I had thought my request was pretty specific, but to make things more clear, I'm specifically referring to and looking for articles about the phrase "in popular culture" itself, as that is the proposed article subject. My own searches haven't yet turned up anything that would satisfy that criterion, but I'm open to being wrong if it can be demonstrated the sources are out there. – Luna Santin (talk) 23:48, 7 July 2008 (UTC)

Nope, you're right. I seriously doubt you're going to find an article specifically about the phrase because I doubt one exists. All the articles I linked to could be cited as examples of how the phrase is used, but in all likelihood no prior article exists specifically about the phrase, so Wikipedia:No original research and Wikipedia:Notability are going to kill my proposal every time. With all due respect, I never fully supported either of those policies (I think they need revising at least) but I don't feel like fighting them because they're constantly a battleground anyway and I don't have the time. Sadly, this exactly why I stopped editing Wikipedia. (Disclaimer: I realize could sound bitter and hurtful; I don't mean it that way, it's just the truth.) Thanks for your dedication to Wikipedia, a project that I think is great, but can't bring myself to put a lot of effort into because of small flaws that ruined my idealist view of it. ~ FerralMoonrender (T • C) 00:05, 8 July 2008 (UTC)

Deletion review for In Popular Culture

An editor has asked for a deletion review of In Popular Culture. 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. Colonel Warden (talk) 09:08, 8 July 2008 (UTC)

Thanks

Have a flower. Qb | ^{your 2 cents} 11:08, 7 July 2008 (UTC)

Why, thanks. :) I'm not sure what exactly prompted all of this attention you've gotten, recently, but I hope it hasn't turned you off contributing. – Luna Santin (talk) 11:32, 7 July 2008 (UTC)

Oh nooo... I haven't been discouraged. I anticipated something like this happening, and why I wrote the quick missive. The funny thing is, I had to apply for this name in the firstplace, as the last one was my real name and I didnt think that was too kosher. So, an upper echelon admin type dude had to approve it in the first place. Ol well. In the end, no harm done! Qb | ^{your 2 cents} 16:08, 7 July 2008 (UTC)

Your userpage

Welcome to Wikipedia. Although everyone is welcome to make pretty userpages to wikipedia, at least one of your recent edits added significant content (42%) to your userpage. You are reminded that userpages are not encyclopedic. Wikipedia is not a place to socialize, but a place to hang around with no friends nor communicating with other people. Moreover, per our non free content policy, fair use is not allowed outside of the article space. You are therefore strongly advised by our legal team to remove this funny quote from Douglas Adams before he sues you for moral prejudice. The next time you make a good userpage, you will be blocked from editing Wikipedia. Thank you. -- lucasbfr ^talk is kidding ;) 16:28, 7 July 2008 (UTC)

:o – Luna Santin (talk) 23:12, 7 July 2008 (UTC)

I couldn't resist templating you with {{uw-omgnewfilthyuserpage}} :p -- lucasbfr ^talk 06:43, 8 July 2008 (UTC)

New user award

		Home-Made Barnstar
		You work hard, and everything I ever see from you seems good. I made this to celebrate Wikipedia's home-made aspect; please take it as a token reward from me for all your good work. John (talk) 06:06, 8 July 2008 (UTC)

Heh, that's an awesome image, brightens up my day. :) Thanks for the sentiment, too, I'll try to live up to it. So often we Wikipedians only give each other feedback when things have gone badly. It's always refreshing to see otherwise. Again, thanks. – Luna Santin (talk) 06:21, 9 July 2008 (UTC)

Another edit war to help freeze

Thanks for your help stopping the edit wars on the various list articles. Another one is popping up over here: List of recurring characters from The Mighty Boosh involving many of the same players. Could you protect the page before the images are deleted once more? Thanks. Buspar (talk) 07:35, 8 July 2008 (UTC)

Looks like I've taken a bit long responding to this, and it hasn't been highly active since you left this message. I'll check back in on it, though, see how it looks. – Luna Santin (talk) 06:48, 9 July 2008 (UTC)

Great power

Thanks for getting involved again, but I'm afraid that this issue will not become resolved any time soon. I have provided much evidence to this editor and I have spent hours debating, but it seams to be going no place fast. Can you please offer some suggestion on how to resolve this? -- UKPhoenix79 (talk) 05:37, 9 July 2008 (UTC)

You and Chanakyathegreat shouldn't edit war. And I have now brought it to ANI as promised (link). =Species8473= ^(talk) 06:21, 9 July 2008 (UTC)

More great power

Hey Luna, do you mind if I unprotect this page? Neither party has made any indication so they're going to cut back soon, so all you're doing by protecting the page is delaying the inevitable while locking out constructive editors. If Chanakyathegreat or UKPhoenix79 keep at this, we can just block them with less ill effects than this long-term protection is having. east.718 at 06:37, July 9, 2008

Go for it. :) – Luna Santin (talk) 06:41, 9 July 2008 (UTC)

Good looks. Done. east.718 at 06:47, July 9, 2008

Would you mind talking to Chanakyathegreat. It seams that (s)he wont respect User:Neils decision not to list any possible future great powers and will not listen to what anyone says. I have tried many times and as you already know it has gotten us no place re-insertion 13:43, 11 July 2008 re-insertion 03:55, 12 July 2008. This user unfortunately has a point to make and doesn't seam to be responsive to reason. It is ashame, we both agree that india and brazil should be shown, and I was one of the few that backed her/him on this, its only how they were listed that we actually disagreed :-( -- Phoenix (talk) 05:46, 12 July 2008 (UTC)

I hate to bother you again... but is there a chance that you could ask Chanakyathegreat to stop and use the talk page? He has so far avoided our requests to stop and I'm kinda getting tired of being involved with this :-( 07:53, 14 July 2008 15:49, 14 July 2008 01:42, 15 July 2008 I feel like I'm a kid tattletaling but this has been going on for a while now and its just silly. -- Phoenix (talk) 02:39, 15 July 2008 (UTC)

I want to echo Phoenix's view. We're trying to resolve the dispute on the Talk page but Chanakyathegreat does not like that approach and continues to re-add India. I'm not sure if he/she needs to be blocked for a while or the page needs to be protected so a discussion with him/her can ensue. Thanks! Nirvana888 (talk) 13:49, 15 July 2008 (UTC)

I just thought you should know that the moment that Chanakya was unblocked (s)he reverted the page :-( 05:30, 17 July 2008 I don't think the editor wishes to communicate via the talk page any longer :-( -- Phoenix (talk) 08:31, 17 July 2008 (UTC)

seaQuest recurring characters

The article is a List of recurring characters on seaQuest DSV, each character has a section, each one is between 2-5 paragraphs long and the images are low resolution screen caps with Non-free / fair use media rationale ( for example [1] or [2]). I was wondering is anything missing from it, have they been done right? Dr. Stantz (talk) 13:01, 9 July 2008 (UTC)

Not exactly my forte, determining the answers to such questions; I'm only acting as far as protecting the page to stop an edit war, at this point. At Talk:List of recurring characters on seaQuest DSV#Protection, I linked to some ongoing (general) discussion you might want to join in on, if you haven't already. Beyond that, you may want to ask other participants in the dispute, or perhaps at the image copyright help desk. – Luna Santin (talk) 20:48, 9 July 2008 (UTC)

86.134.54.54

Understood. After reviewing everything it does look like their edits weren't exactly vandalism. More likely just no knowledge of talk pages. Although I guess it doesn't really help his or her case to go berserk. Anyways thank you for the reminder. Cheers, Artichoker^[talk] 20:44, 11 July 2008 (UTC)

My thoughts exactly. :) Thanks for the quick reply. – Luna Santin (talk) 21:28, 11 July 2008 (UTC)

I did realise the warning was iffy but the user was clearly being disruptive around that incident anyway. His behaviour, in my opinion, merited a warning just to let him know he was on thin ice. From that point on I was very careful to use the phrase 'perceived as vandalism'. Honestly I sought to defend the guy's case, you just wouldn't know from the responses. I feel it's a little unfair to be rebuked when, really, he was being extremely uncivil and I was trying to patiently explain concepts to him and he didn't want to listen... Rushyo ^Talk 10:53, 12 July 2008 (UTC)

Situations like that can be very tricky. I can see where you're coming from, but once a brand new user like 86.134 felt like they were surrounded and outnumbered, with nearly every attempt at making a helpful edit resulting in another revert and warning, it's hardly any surprise they got so upset. For example, your first interaction with them was to leave a {{uw-upv}} warning when they made the simple mistake of leaving messages on the user page, instead of the user talk page; wouldn't it have been a touch more polite to simply move the message for them, and mention the difference? It's quite often the case that once a user like this feels they have even one friendly ear, they calm down significantly (if they still don't, we can always break the fire and brimstone out anyway). – Luna Santin (talk) 02:30, 13 July 2008 (UTC)

I have large response written up and then WP decided to be database-locked and Fx lost my responses. Nevermind. I shall instead leave you with the statements "I don't agree with your assessment" and "the last people you should bite are those trying to help". -Rushyo ^Talk 01:58, 14 July 2008 (UTC)

You feel "bitten" by a message which says "I'm not sure" you were wrong, and asks you to "please be mindful" of such concerns in the future, and yet you see nothing biting about your hyper-aggressive treatment of this brand new user? Funny you should mention biting those who are trying to help, such as the user I mentioned. If your thin skin is so bruised by such a polite message, just imagine what your full-blown vandalism warning did, here. Is it really so hard to stand in another's shoes? – Luna Santin (talk) 02:05, 14 July 2008 (UTC)

Hello all. I just checked my original revert and warn and still think that it was a pretty clear case of vandalism. The later edits weren't too bad and I agree with Luna Santin that it probably spiralled a little bit from there. I'm sure now the block is expired and we're being friendly to them they will be a fine editor in the future! Avnjay^Talk 11:12, 13 July 2008 (UTC)

In what way is the change clearly and openly malicious? – Luna Santin (talk) 02:06, 14 July 2008 (UTC)

Hello Luna! Let me just post the edit made so we all know what we are referring to (difference in bold).

Before:

"That begs the question" is an appropriate reply when a circular argument is used within one syllogism. That is, when the deduction contains a proposition that assumes the very thing the argument aims to prove; in essence, the proposition is used to prove itself, a tactic which in its simplest form is not very persuasive. For example here is an attempt to prove that Paul is telling the truth: Suppose Paul is not lying when he speaks. Paul is speaking. Therefore, Paul is telling the truth.

After:

"That begs the question" is an appropriate reply when a circular argument is used within one syllogism. That is, when the deduction contains a proposition that assumes the very thing the argument aims to prove; in essence, the proposition is used to prove itself, a tactic which in its simplest form is not very persuasive. For example here is an attempt to prove that Paul is telling the truth: Suppose Paul is speaking and not lying Paul often helps local charities. Therefore, Paul is telling the truth.

As the article states the argument is of the form:

For some proposition p,

• p implies q
• suppose p
• therefore, q.

The edit in question changed the article causing the logical argument to be ruined. In effect the argument now becomes:

• p implies q
• suppose r
• therefore, q,

which is complete nonsense. The change to "Paul often helps local charities" is detrimental to the article (the argument no longer makes any sense) and seemed to me to be a frivolous comment, added with no context, probably for a joke. "Paul often helps local charities" has nothing to do with the article or the logical argument. This is why I reverted it. The edit was "the insertion of nonsense into an article" and did not seem to be in good faith. Therefore I issued a level 1 vandalism warning. The warning is phrased lightly "Welcome to Wikipedia. The recent edit you made to Begging the question has been reverted, as it appears to be unconstructive. Use the sandbox for testing; if you believe the edit was constructive, ensure that you provide an informative edit summary. You may also wish to read the introduction to editing. Thanks." and was, in my view, appropriate as the edit certainly seemed to me to appear "unconstructive". If the editor in question wishes to contest this then I am more than happy to accept his explanation and would, as my note to them says, encourage them to "provide an informative edit summary". I certainly would never want to bite new editors (I can still remember how scared I was that my first edit would be reverted) but I did not see anything to distinguish this editor from the ranks of those whose nonsense I revert daily. I am very glad to find out now that the editor does not have vandalism on their mind, and I wish them happy editing in the future. However, for the reasons outlined above, I stand by decision to revert-and-warn that first edit. Do I have the agreement of my fellow editors? I hope I have answered your query Luna? I hope you all have a good day! Avnjay^Talk 10:54, 14 July 2008 (UTC)

I must say, I'm impressed! :) Wasn't expecting you to go to those sorts of lengths, but I do see where you're coming from better, now. You've obviously taken some time to think about this, and it's fine with me that you're sticking to your guns; you've done more than I could have asked for. – Luna Santin (talk) 13:16, 14 July 2008 (UTC)

Flygirl14

Hi Luna Santin; thanks for the offer of help. I truly see this as a freedom of speech issue, I re edited the article, I feel its valid and researched. I explained my reasons. not sure what to do, If you could help me do a review too un delete this... I truly don't get what proceedure is.. So if you could please help me I would appreciate it.. thank you (Flygirl14 (talk) 23:07, 11 July 2008 (UTC))

Thank you very much (Flygirl14 (talk) 23:27, 11 July 2008 (UTC))

Zachemc2

Hi, You blocked this guy because it was a sockpuppet of a blocked account (User:ZippyGoogle). Neither is currently blocked. While you noted no abusive sockpuppetry, I wonder if this qualifies and if, in your more educated opinion, this is worth me pursuing at at the Sock AN: [3] [4] [5] [6] --CastAStone/^{/₵₳$↑₳₴₮ʘ№€} 18:59, 12 July 2008 (UTC)

I should clarify that I didn't actually block Zachemc2, but I did decline to remove an autoblock on the IP address they were using. That said, the diffs you've mentioned are a huge red flag, and if I were more sure they're socks I'd actually be blocking right now. Definitely worth a mention, for more eyes. – Luna Santin (talk) 02:35, 13 July 2008 (UTC)

Thanks, I reported it, along with his other issues.--CastAStone/^{/₵₳$↑₳₴₮ʘ№€} 05:26, 13 July 2008 (UTC)

Anonymous IP: 71.192.98.224

Hi there, I'm Supaman89, you might remember me from an IP-blockage discussion around two weeks ago, at that discussion I asked for the blockage of anonymous IP 71.192.98.224 the reason was stated in the solicitude, at the time we decided to give him a warning before blocking him, so you warned him HERE, and he stopped for a couple of days so people would forget about it, but now he's doing it again and luckily I've being checking on him that's why I came here to ask you to finally block this IP which is obviously only being used for one purpose, even after he's blocked I'm gonna have to revert all the sister cities sections he's edited, I hope you can stop him, thank you. Supaman89 (talk) 22:08, 12 July 2008 (UTC)

Giving them another message, let's see if they respond (I won't hold my breath, but you never know). – Luna Santin (talk) 02:20, 13 July 2008 (UTC)

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Middle Power

Hi Lunar you recently wrote on my talk page regarding Middle Power article. I have supplied a source supporting Russia's inclusion in the list. Everybody (the user) is an anonymous IP who's only action's on Wiki has been to grandize Russia's place in the world. I also deleted the Middle Power map because the map does not include all the countries in the list. Thankyou. Sorry the ise is Everyroad Colliver55 (talk) 11:26, 13 July 2008 (UTC)

AIV note

Didn't mean to overrule you on User talk:70.129.252.134 - I blocked at the same time as you were leaving your note.--Kubigula (talk) 04:52, 14 July 2008 (UTC)

No trouble, really. Gut feeling says I might have been doing that a few edits down the line, anyway. ;) – Luna Santin (talk) 04:59, 14 July 2008 (UTC)

Looking at it again, I think your approach was better. The initial vandalism was so obnoxious that I wasn't inclined to cut much slack. However, I think you're right that the end result was likely to be the same.--Kubigula (talk) 05:14, 14 July 2008 (UTC)

Appreciate the thought. Ultimately, we weren't so far off from each other, anyway, though. – Luna Santin (talk) 13:21, 14 July 2008 (UTC)

Naive Null Edit Question

Luna, sorry to disturb you but i was wondering whether you can tell me how you perform a null edit just like you did here. Im sorry for such a silly question but its bugging me because everytime i try and do it, it doesn't save anything. What in the above did you actually do, 1 byte from the page was removed. Thanks, you are free to answer when you have stopped laughing :) Monster Under Your Bed ^(talk) 12:04, 14 July 2008 (UTC)

Ah, that is a useful thing to know, and a bit esoteric at that. :) I think there's some information at WP:NULL about it. The important thing to remember is that you have to make a change the server will recognize, in order to save the edit; adding or removing spaces and newlines at the end of the page text will usually be ignored by the server, as far as saving. In this case, I found an extra space in the middle of a post, and deleted it. Adding spaces or newlines the the middle of a page will sometimes work (usually at the end of a line, say)... just be careful not to accidentally mess up any formatting while doing so. Once you know the general idea, it gets easier with practice. That one actually took me two tries, my first shot "missed." :p – Luna Santin (talk) 13:20, 14 July 2008 (UTC)

Kate McAuliffe

Hi there Luna, I came to enlist your help. If you would, take a look at User talk:Xenocidic#User:Eatpeaches/Kate McAuliffe and Wikipedia:Suspected sock puppets/Llamadog903 (now closed); looks like a sleeper sock has re-awakened. However, their contributions haven't been entirely negative, as you can see from Special:Contributions/Eatpeaches. Acalamari recommended that we ask you for your opinion. Thanks! GlassCobra 23:03, 14 July 2008 (UTC)

Ah, thanks for letting me into the loop on that. I'll reply at Xeno's talk, since that seems a bit more central at the moment. – Luna Santin (talk) 23:30, 14 July 2008 (UTC)

Consenses on what?

You did not mention on which issue consensus need to be reached. Earlier when I provided sources for "India as an emerging power", the whole thing was removed in the name of it being future. Even though I had explained to them in detail that if we compare India with Britain and France, India will be in the list of great powers.

Now I am adding India to the list of Great Powers with "Sources". Just like any other nation is there on the list with sources. Chanakyathegreat (talk) 11:42, 15 July 2008 (UTC)

If you continue edit warring on that page, you're going to be blocked. – Luna Santin (talk) 11:45, 15 July 2008 (UTC)

User:Hellohihey

This user appears to be a vandalism-only account, and I doubt that it'll be constructive after the block is expired.

Just offering my two cents :) Nick Bush 07:44, 16 July 2008 (UTC)

Probably not. Few driveby vandals return after even a short block, though; if they happen to rethink their actions, we might get a good editor out of it; if they don't, it's easy enough to reblock. of course, it's still plenty easy for a returning vandal to register another account, if they're so inclined, so it may all be moot to begin with. – Luna Santin (talk) 07:49, 16 July 2008 (UTC)

Template help

Hey Luna,

Thanks alot for your help with the All Saints season article, I really appreciate it. I'm not too good with the complicated syntax, do you think you could provide me with a link where I can read into what you discussed a bit more?

Once again, thank you.

Davido321 (talk) 10:04, 16 July 2008 (UTC)

Glad I could help. :) Unfortunately, the specific issue you had was esoteric enough that I'm not aware of any help page specifically detailing it. It's important to consider the code which results after a page or template is transcluded, which was the issue here. m:Help:Table covers the semantics for tables, while m:Help:ParserFunctions documents some of the functions at play. The key thing here is that a particular block of text (the block that creates the column heading) is being "shown" on one page, but not on the other, if that makes sense. – Luna Santin (talk) 23:59, 16 July 2008 (UTC)

Hi

I notice you're a student in California. As you seem pretty smart I was wondering if you attend either Cal Berkeley, Stanford or UCLA, as I am applying for these schools. Regards, 79.75.221.97 (talk) 11:01, 16 July 2008 (UTC)

I probably shouldn't discuss that so publicly (sorry). I do know people who are or were going to all three schools, and most of them have turned out okay, so far. – Luna Santin (talk) 00:02, 17 July 2008 (UTC)

Britney Spears

Hey! I see yer online and active and cooking! Can I ask you to take a looksie at my talk and at the history for Brit? Theres one hell of a 3rr over there, and I dont want to revert again. The dude doesnt seem to understand and I'm pretty sure he's done 5 reverts at this point. Thanks! Qb | ^{your 2 cents} 01:43, 17 July 2008 (UTC)

User talk:Mybiggestfan123 has done it yet again. The Bookkeeper (of the Occult) 03:50, 19 July 2008 (UTC)

I've given MBF a warning suggesting they try discussion; if they make any further reverts before attempting to do so, I'll block them immediately. Beyond that, I guess I'll just go with 3RR as normal? – Luna Santin (talk) 03:55, 19 July 2008 (UTC)

they've done it yet again. against consensus. The Bookkeeper (of the Occult) 11:50, 19 July 2008 (UTC)

Thanks

Earlier today, thanks for reverting that vandlism which was done on Wiki Templates.

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Ah, thanks. Glad I could help out a bit. – Luna Santin (talk) 12:48, 19 July 2008 (UTC)

"semi-vegetarianism"

Luna:

There is no such thing as a "semi-vegetarian" no matter how nicely the article was written. A vegetarian diet never includes animal flesh..ever. In other words, if a person eats any type of flesh, he or she is not even close to being a vegetarian. Definitions such as "semi-vegetarian" cause a lot of confusion. Just as you cannot be half catholic or a little bit pregnant, you can't be semi-vegetarian just because you eat less flesh then you used to. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Briarkat65 (talk • contribs) 12:42, 19 July 2008 (UTC)

Hey, there. :) Thanks for taking a moment to post. What you say is true from some perspectives, but not necessarily from all of them. Vegetarianism isn't a religion, but if we take your analogy at face value, there are numerous sects of Christianity, ranging from Roman Catholicism to Methodism; it's worth making clear, however, that the article suggests this is a choice not always made out of ethical considerations. It is probably more appropriate to get some (preferably sourced) content which describes this criticism, rather than replacing the entire article with it. Certainly your point of view is legitimate, but it need not be the only one presented, if that makes sense. – Luna Santin (talk) 12:48, 19 July 2008 (UTC)

Thank you!

Thanks for the protection on my userpage, it is much appreciated. ---RepublicanJacobite_{The'FortyFive'} 03:55, 20 July 2008 (UTC)

Yep. :) Let me know if any other subpages need protection, or if there's something else I might do to be helpful. – Luna Santin (talk) 09:45, 21 July 2008 (UTC)

124.190.212.202

Thank you! --Carbonrodney (talk) 12:28, 20 July 2008 (UTC)

Of course. :) – Luna Santin (talk) 09:44, 21 July 2008 (UTC)

AdultSwim

I had not noticed your answer to Barnecat before I typed my answer at AN, but I'll still leave it as is there. Circeus (talk) 02:29, 21 July 2008 (UTC)

Gotcha. Thanks for keeping me in the loop. – Luna Santin (talk) 09:44, 21 July 2008 (UTC)

Drew, user who made article on Njection

Hi, you never responded to my last comment. I'm back on Wikipedia and sitting here literally afraid to start a new article for fear of being accused of having an ulterior motive. If something I write gets removed it's like a dagger in my side. I know I shouldn't take it personally but I do, I can't help it. I know it's okay though because I am still learning. But getting outright accused of having an "overriding conflict of interest" and that my "only current objective is to get this article posted" is extremely bothersome. I had a family emergency which is why I was gone for a month. (Two emergencies actually but I'll not get into that.) Anyways, I don't care about the Njection article at this point (although it saddens me cause I wrote it meticulously!) but I do care about being accused of Conflict of Interest.

"It's telling that you returned from a nearly one-month hiatus shortly after it was deleted, replaced the article, and then immediately went back on hiatus, almost as if you'd been prompted to do so, off-site" and "will delete the page and temporarily salt it against recreation. I have no particular objection if an uninvolved user wishes to recreate the article," you wrote.

No, it's not telling. It's very presumptuous of you when you know don't know anything about my life circumstances and it's hurtful and offensive to someone who spends as much time contributing (and removing vandalism, just cause I like to) as I do. (Not counting my month away, of course.) I don't even know what "salt it against recreation" means. I have Aspergers; I'm obsessive and sometimes I don't realize how things might come across. In any case, I was in a haze for a month so it wouldn't have mattered much even if I did realize that someone would think I had "Conflicts of Interest."

Again, I noticed that the article had been taken down which was baffling to me. It was very well-written (if you don't mind my saying so, I take pride in my work) and you even acknowledged that they were notable. Not to mention that it's a fascinating company because of their speedtrap tool...uh-oh, does my excitement, extreme curiosity and love for collecting & organizing information of every variety come across as "advertisement"? I am not being sarcastic here: Is that my problem? If it is I need to know.

My comments that I posted to you in response are reposted below since they are no longer on your talk page: "I don't get this. Look at my history please. I post articles about all sorts of things all the time. I've been very busy but am returning to Wikipedia now that life has slowed down again. (My brother had a tic where he was jutting his head out like a Chicken.) I am focused on this article because it got pulled which is upsetting to (I work hard on all of them) and also bizarre as they are obviously extremely notable. Please check my history before accusing me of a conflict of interest. I've have to have to have a personal reason to want to post many topics!! And a personal reason to want to clean up vandalism. This is an unfair and completely irrational accusation."

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I'm sorry to hear about your family emergency, and hope all is well with you and yours. Likewise, my apologies for any offense caused; it's not intentional. I will emphasize that the protection is temporary (expires in a few days, in fact), and that I doubt I'll be taking any further action once that point comes. Beyond that, while I wish I could offer you a more comprehensive reply, I must defer to privacy concerns. – Luna Santin (talk) 09:38, 21 July 2008 (UTC)

Belated thanks...

...for the revert on my userpage. I won't leave a diff, for the obvious reason! _GB^T/C 07:32, 21 July 2008 (UTC)

Indeed. :) – Luna Santin (talk) 09:44, 21 July 2008 (UTC)

Request for Unblock: Dubcrazy

Yes, he is one of my friends. I was not online when he made the edit, so I didn't even know about this situation until just right now. I think he deserves a second chance. Scholastic Opponent (talk) 04:10, 22 July 2008 (UTC)

Ah, thanks for letting me know, and sorry for the stiff reaction. I'll have them unblocked in a moment. – Luna Santin (talk) 04:31, 22 July 2008 (UTC)

Thank you

Thanks for understanding. I hope I can establish my wikipedia reputation as a good user instead of an abusive one. :) DubCrazy (talk) 06:51, 22 July 2008 (UTC)DubCrazy

I'll look forward to that. :) – Luna Santin (talk) 19:51, 23 July 2008 (UTC)

Vacation

I'm gone for vacation to France/Spain, and expected to be back during the end of August. I want to thank you for the many times you helped me out with questions and problems. And other random talks, and for your great weblog. With enough people like you one can go on a wikibreak knowing there will still be a wikipedia left after. Keep it up! =Species8473= ^(talk) 22:20, 22 July 2008 (UTC)

Ah, I try to do some good. Can't solve every problem, but I can hopefully take care of my own plate and maybe help out a few others along the way. ;) Thanks for the compliments, I really appreciate them. Enjoy your trip! – Luna Santin (talk) 20:01, 23 July 2008 (UTC)

La Renaissance Apartments

If you have a look at the Talk:La Renaissance Apartments I believe I have a reasonable compromise. Let me know if that balances your desire to have the page deleted with my desire to write about some of the more significant structures in the city. This is the second article that I have written nominated for deletion in a two/three week period the other being Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Saskatoon Club. It leads me to question why I should be putting any time into contributing to this community/project. --M@sk (talk) 05:26, 23 July 2008 (UTC)

Proposed deletion is intentionally a pretty gentle process -- any lone editor, even the article's creator, can typically remove the {{prod}} template before the five days are up, and even without any objections the article will only be deleted after independent review by an uninvolved administrator. For my part, I'm unsure of whether "tallest foo in bar" is a traditionally accepted notability criteria, but I'm more than willing to consider the idea. Is there more we can say about it, than what's currently there? If the most information available is its location and height, it may be appropriate to merge to the list itself (again, I'm open to other ideas). No offense was intended, and I very much do appreciate your good faith effort. – Luna Santin (talk) 19:58, 23 July 2008 (UTC)

Hey again

Hey Luna, if somebody deletes my work, does my edit still count as a contribution? Do all my edits have to still be in the articles? Because I understand that if I want to be an administrator, I need 1,000 edits (right?). So would it still count if some of my work is deleted? Thanks. DubCrazy (talk) 20:38, 23 July 2008 (UTC)DubCrazy

Hagger again, eh?

So, you've blocked User:HAGGER??, right? Judging from the edits, and the rap sheet, it appears as though the so-called hagger guy named Grawp isn't just one person, but a mob determined to disrupt wiki activity, with shock images and malware. Is it possible to use a username blacklist here in WP? God Bless and have a nice day... Blake Gripling (talk) 23:48, 24 July 2008 (UTC)

• Ditto. Just shot an e-mail your way whenever you have a chance.  :) --PMDrive1061 (talk) 00:26, 25 July 2008 (UTC)

BTW, would you agree that "one trick pony" and "one note song" apply here? Have fun. You are a real benefit to this site. --PMDrive1061 (talk) 00:33, 25 July 2008 (UTC)

One trick pony? He has a whole group of admirers! Most of the grawp-style vandalism edits are actually from impersonators. Enigma ^message 00:58, 25 July 2008 (UTC)

I've read an article in Encyclopedia Dramatica about vandalism, and it had references to Grawp vandalism, and how to do it. I guess this, and the shock-site user account in ED, explains it. Does this qualify for cybercrime/system abuse? Blake Gripling (talk) 01:17, 25 July 2008 (UTC)

Dunno, but it should. Can you believe the idiocy? --PMDrive1061 (talk) 01:34, 25 July 2008 (UTC)

If it is, then would it be an FBI raid, ala-Operation Fastlink, much like what happens to warez groups? If the people responsible to this malicious wikiraid, such as "Resolute's **** is stretched by Grawp's massive ***k" isn't going to clean up their act, then would it be feasible to report them to the authorities? Blake Gripling (talk) 01:42, 25 July 2008 (UTC)

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Seems the fun has begun anew, eh? Kind of pathetic that all this idiot can do on a Friday night is vandalize this site. If this is the high point of his weekend, I doubt he's the sort of person who'd have much luck getting a date. Given the highly creative usernames he comes up with, I think he'd be happiest in a place like San Francisco.  :)) Have a nice weekend. Really. --PMDrive1061 (talk) 00:42, 26 July 2008 (UTC)

And can't we just have those so-called "HAGGER" vandals raided by the feds or their ISPs and have them blacklisted? It just goes to show that the Grawp mob, is what my father called a lunatic, or maybe a bunch of lunatics, that is... And I have another idea for my Grand Theft Jimbo joke... Blake Gripling (talk) 00:49, 26 July 2008 (UTC)

Definitely a bunch of lunatics who get "epic lulz" from fart jokes, but I don't know if what the little boogers are doing is illegal per se. I surmise they've watched this site for a long time; I haven't been "Lucky 6.9" in quite some time and I'm downright proud of the contribs I made under that username. I'm not trying to hide that fact, but he seems to think he's "outing" me in some way. I repeat: He's a dweeb with no date on a Friday night and he's stuck on his one little gag ad infinitum. Poor, pathetic little boy. --PMDrive1061 (talk) 01:17, 26 July 2008 (UTC)

Agreed. He, or they are a bunch of fools who are just stuck with an overused and malicious gag. I'm a parodist, but of course, I won't end up fooling around here in Wikipedia... Blake Gripling (talk) 01:21, 26 July 2008 (UTC)

Hey Luna, quick question if you know the answer -- what does it mean in the user creation log when it says "account created automatically" (as is the case with this particular kid). Never noticed that before. Antandrus (talk) 03:57, 26 July 2008 (UTC)

SUL accounts created on other wikis don't exist here until the user visits this wiki. – Luna Santin (talk) 03:58, 26 July 2008 (UTC)

Hey, Luna! I would just like to congratulate you on your superb work on blocking and reverting those Grawp-type users for us! It's well-respected, and we've got lots of people starting to know about this kind of stuff. Anyways, I congratulate you (and others like User:NawlinWiki and User:Krimpet) for your hard work. SchfiftyThree 04:32, 26 July 2008 (UTC)

• Oh, I am loving this! The little sweetie took yet another stab at me, this time using a username accusing me of having nothing better to do on a Friday night! Frankly, I'm having fun. He is not. Nothing, and I mean nothing is better than getting under a vandal's skin. --PMDrive1061 (talk) 05:21, 26 July 2008 (UTC)

Barnstar moved from userpage

		The RickK Anti-Vandalism Barnstar
		For fighting vandalism on the Benzene page. Nerguy (talk) 23:21, 24 July 2008 (UTC)

Thanks. Really most of the credit goes to the helpful editors who drew up the page from scratch, over time. :) – Luna Santin (talk) 10:19, 26 July 2008 (UTC)

Thank you very much for the unblock. I appreciate it greatly. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Raoulfgonzo (talk • contribs) 16:36, 26 July 2008 (UTC)

Discussion at Wikipedia:Administrators'_noticeboard/Incidents#Excessive_block?

Hello, Luna Santin. This message is being sent to inform you that there currently is a discussion at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents regarding an issue with which you may have been involved. Thank you. --Edcolins (talk) 16:44, 26 July 2008 (UTC)

Thanks

Thanks for the heads up. IRC? KnightLago (talk) 22:16, 26 July 2008 (UTC)

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Thanks for the quick revert on my userpage. - Blake⁰¹ 09:52, 27 July 2008 (UTC)

Great Power

The Great power discussion is more about accusation and less about constructive discussion. Until now no one has said why they oppose the inclusion of India into the great power list. Now what the mighty admin has to say. Do you want to misuse your rights and block me again.Chanakyathegreat (talk) 08:06, 28 July 2008 (UTC)

Why is he starting this again? 08:34, 1 August 2008 talk page message. I have reverted this but I will leave this to others to continue as this will naturally happen... since he has shown that he will not stop. -- Phoenix (talk) 09:38, 1 August 2008 (UTC)

Chanakyathegreat is a notoriously stubborn user who has shown a clear objective to push an patriotic Indian POV, has resorted to trollish behavior on the Talk page and has ignored all suggestions over a period of a few months by many users and admins. I'm not sure what needs to happen. The short blocks have not seemed to help. Nirvana888 (talk) 14:11, 1 August 2008 (UTC)

Thanks for fixing my page.

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Jake -Integrated Circuit Design

Why did you flag the Mentor Graphics IC Design user community as Spam ? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IC_design This is use community for IC Design professionals. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 98.14.159.5 (talk)

It's because of the fact that Wikipedia is not a link farm, nor you should just use it for promoting your site. And don't forget to put four tildes (~~~~) when you post something in a talk page. Blake Gripling (talk) 23:55, 31 July 2008 (UTC)

Swarley's name

Thanks for the headsup -- I've unblocked the user. Welcome back! NawlinWiki (talk) 22:21, 2 August 2008 (UTC)

Thanks. :) – Luna Santin (talk) 03:38, 5 August 2008 (UTC)

Solar System

I noticed your edit, and would like your contribution to the talk page on Talk:Solar_System#New_List. -HarryAlffa (talk) 22:05, 3 August 2008 (UTC)

Hm? My best guess is I reverted some vandalism, here, and you're messaging everybody who's edited (or edited recently). Appreciate the thought. – Luna Santin (talk) 03:38, 5 August 2008 (UTC)

Edit War on Historical powers

I reported the 3RR violations at the 3RR noticeboard with with no response. Can you look into this since more reverts have occurred since. Thanks -- Phoenix (talk) 04:23, 4 August 2008 (UTC)

For some reason this is still being overlooked and they are continuing their edit war. Any chance you could give some assistance? -- Phoenix (talk) 05:50, 5 August 2008 (UTC)

Ah, whoops, I forgot to look at this one. Semi-protected the page for two days (all recent warring seems to be by these anons), and left a few notices regarding use of talk pages, potential blocks for edit warring, all the fun jazz. – Luna Santin (talk) 05:58, 5 August 2008 (UTC)

Thanks :-) should I update the 3RR notice or should I leave that to you since you were the admin that took action? -- Phoenix (talk) 06:14, 5 August 2008 (UTC)

Hello? -- Phoenix (talk) 01:32, 6 August 2008 (UTC)

Gah. I miss too many of these orange bars. x.x Left a note at AN3. – Luna Santin (talk) 01:35, 6 August 2008 (UTC)

Thanks for the help. But it seams that the ip addresses were for the registered users User:Offerpoint and User:The Ogre (though I am unsure if The Ogre really was one of the culprits) and the fight is still going on :-( Neither are using the talk page as they only seam to want to revert and leave mild insults in the comments. -- Phoenix (talk) 07:57, 7 August 2008 (UTC)

<sigh> Just reported Offerpoint for a 3RR violation... Oh well. -- Phoenix (talk) 09:21, 7 August 2008 (UTC)

I see they're already blocked; be careful not to get drawn into an edit war, yourself. – Luna Santin (talk) 15:12, 7 August 2008 (UTC)

Regarding what we did to Rogelio G. Maestrecampo Jr.‎...

OK, so I brought back the speedy tag from the article again, after you reverted BaK51iva's revision (although we all agree that the latter user's a vandal. The reason? If you read the whole article, and did a little research, you'll notice that it's just plain vanity and non-notable, adding to the fact that the original author also made Jane lou gargaritano‎, another non-notable article. Ant thoughts on this? God Bless and have a nice day... Blake Gripling (talk) 08:21, 4 August 2008 (UTC)

So long as you believe in good faith that the tagging was appropriate, that's good enough for me. :) Spot checked one or two at the time, and they didn't seem to match up, so I just reverted them all. If you see any others I might have been in error on, I can take a closer look at all of them. – Luna Santin (talk) 08:30, 4 August 2008 (UTC)

Dear Luna Santin

Can I delete our conversation about my block and my unblock request? Or do wikipedia admins need it? Well, please let me know. Contact me on my talk page, if you can, thanks. By the way, I am close to 100 contributions to wikipedia, pretty good start, eh? :)DubCrazy (talk) 17:45, 4 August 2008 (UTC)DubCrazy

Replied on your talk, as requested. – Luna Santin (talk) 03:38, 5 August 2008 (UTC)

The revert

Thanks. I was wondering when that individual was going to show up again. Acalamari 01:58, 5 August 2008 (UTC)

Wasn't sure who that was, but they certainly seem to be up to much good, yeah. – Luna Santin (talk) 03:38, 5 August 2008 (UTC)

Quick little thank you

I've released the autoblock at this time; apologies. It would not have been permanent, in any case, but as you mention it can be problematic to leave shared IPs blocked. – Luna Santin (talk) 03:29, 5 August 2008 (UTC)

Thanks for taking care of this so quickly! MrZaius^talk 03:34, 5 August 2008 (UTC)

Glad I could help out. :) Looks like the blocking admin accidentally set the autoblock, then reconfigured the block without autoblocking enabled... which unfortunately leaves the original autoblock still active. I left them a quick note about that, for their own reference. – Luna Santin (talk) 03:38, 5 August 2008 (UTC)

Paul K. Dayton

Recreated moments after you deleted it, with an attack in the edit summary. Thanks! Dayewalker (talk) 05:30, 5 August 2008 (UTC)

And again. And below, for that matter. Dayewalker (talk) 05:31, 5 August 2008 (UTC)

And again, for a fourth time, created the page. I've filed at AIV, also. Thanks! Dayewalker (talk) 05:43, 5 August 2008 (UTC)

I'm thinking this may be a legit article, if we can fix it up. Could be wrong. – Luna Santin (talk) 05:45, 5 August 2008 (UTC)

attack page?

you must be smoking the crack

User:BaK51iva

Hi, I see now that you had blocked this user by the time I wasted time WP:AGF pointing out how not to speedy articles! Isn't it the convention to put a note on talk pages when you block a user, partly for the benefit of other people who might be about to put warnings there? It would have been useful. Thanks, PamD (talk) 11:49, 5 August 2008 (UTC)

Ah, sorry about that. They were a pretty obvious sockpuppet of another user I'd recently blocked, and I didn't think it would be necessary at the time. – Luna Santin (talk) 00:29, 11 August 2008 (UTC)

40 rvs in 1 minute

Very impressive, almost bot like. That kind of stuff can scare the hell out of a newbie aspiring to be something here on the wiki :P I know quickness is not everything but even i must say that was quite a treat, guess experience is everything. We're blessed to have you here on the wiki, may you keep it up for a long time to come. 137.154.16.30 (talk) 01:14, 6 August 2008 (UTC)

When asked, I usually tell people that finding and identifying vandalism is far more challenging than cleaning it up, once found; rollback is a very useful tool, that way... though it does have its own problems. With this particular case, I asked around a bit, and most people did agree the other user was apparently tagging spuriously, but making such a major move is always nerve-wracking: what if I'm wrong? Anyhow, appreciate the note. :) If you're looking for ways to get more involved, the community portal isn't a bad place to start, I don't think. – Luna Santin (talk) 01:43, 6 August 2008 (UTC)

On Email

Dear Luna Santin, thank you for your message. The reason that I have disabled my e-mail on Wikipedia is my fundamental desire for not having behind-the-doors conversations with Wikipedians. I am an advocate of openness in all aspects of life and thus believe that all conversations pertaining to Wikipedia must take place on Wikipedia pages. I hope that you can have understanding for my standpoint. If you wish to tell me something, please do not hesitate and place your message on my talk page. With kind regards, --BF 03:37, 6 August 2008 (UTC).

Aquiline or Hooknose?

The main page should be Aquiline nose, not Hooknose. "Hooknose" should redirect to "Aquiline nose". First because the expression "aquiline nose" is much more used in history and literature, and it's more accurate. "Hooknose" is not even a real word, and it is used in the context of racial slur. 201.41.192.76 (talk) 04:25, 6 August 2008 (UTC)

My objection to the move is purely procedural: simply put, we do not move pages by mere cut-and-paste, because doing so violates the terms of our licensing (specifically, the GFDL); instead, we prefer to use our move function whenever possible. I'll perform a "history merge" in a moment, to move the page properly. – Luna Santin (talk) 04:36, 6 August 2008 (UTC)

Done; perhaps I should have done that from the start, but I wasn't entirely sure as to the move rationale, at first. Thanks for your time. – Luna Santin (talk) 04:45, 6 August 2008 (UTC)

Thank you. 201.41.192.76 (talk) 04:50, 6 August 2008 (UTC)

Luna Santin encourages!

Thankyou for the encouragement! Andvd (talk) 10:54, 6 August 2008 (UTC)Andvd

COUNTER STRIKE SOURCE

Do you play any online games? such as this one? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Buzza69 (talk • contribs) 12:41, 9 August 2008 (UTC) --Buzza69 (talk) 13:02, 9 August 2008 (UTC)

I play a number of similar games, yes. Bit more of an Unreal Tournament fanatic, though. Or my old favorite, Starsiege: Tribes. :) – Luna Santin (talk) 13:06, 9 August 2008 (UTC)

Checkuser Question

On my checkuser I didn't add a letter as I wasn't sure which one to add (first checkuser I have ever requested). In the future, what do I add as a letter? Thanks...NeutralHomer • Talk 00:18, 11 August 2008 (UTC)

Ah, I wouldn't worry too much about it. :) There's a table at the top of WP:RFCU that lists them in detail, if you're curious. Used to be a big deal, but not so much, lately. These days, I guess they're mainly a hint to which checks are more likely to be run than others. The important thing is getting a request submitted, and hopefully summarizing the rationale (which usually means describing the abuse/problem); the rest is just paperwork. You did fine, I think. – Luna Santin (talk) 00:26, 11 August 2008 (UTC)

Cool! Hopefully I won't have to do too many of them, but for next time I will learn the "letters". Take Care and Have a Great Week...NeutralHomer • Talk 00:30, 11 August 2008 (UTC)

You, too. :) If all else fails, G is a popular choice. – Luna Santin (talk) 00:35, 11 August 2008 (UTC)

TVU

Could u please explain to me why all my edits to tvu got undone please? i only wanted to make the uni article sound better. Cheers. Sam David. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 79.75.172.252 (talk) 06:10, 11 August 2008 (UTC)

LMU

Why did u take down the alumni section i created? TWICE! i really dont get this place. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 79.75.220.22 (talk) 06:48, 11 August 2008 (UTC)

Please read over the information I left on your talk page. I would really suggest to discontinue editing before you add more material to any articles. You don't seem to understand Wikipedia's editing guidelines. Thanks. --eric (mailbox) 06:50, 11 August 2008 (UTC)

It seems I am mixed up with another person who made a edit to another school article and figured it was that person who was contacting me. Please be sure to sign your tildes to avoid confusion next time you leave a message. I will remove the templates from your user page too becuase it was meant to go toward someone else. Thanks. --eric (mailbox) 06:57, 11 August 2008 (UTC)

On closer inspection, the articles linked all do mention LMU. Apologies for the confusion; some of your first changes looked less helpful than this one. In any case, you may wish to look over our introduction to get a better feel for the place, indeed. – Luna Santin (talk) 06:51, 11 August 2008 (UTC)

ok thats cool, so i made a positive contribution to the site. wooo! seems like there is still a lot of work needing doing on here tho. i hope i can help out, even tho im not as smart as some of the boffins on here. i will look at that stuff when i have time, but im quite busy at the moment. cheers. --79.75.220.22 (talk) 07:07, 11 August 2008 (UTC)

MediaWiki:Sp-contributions-footer

I have responded to your comment at Wikipedia:Village pump (technical)#MediaWiki:Sp-contributions-footer and coded up some suggestions at User:Davidgothberg/Test30. I am awaiting your comments at the Village pump.

--David Göthberg (talk) 04:25, 12 August 2008 (UTC)

Thanks. Replied at VPT for now. – Luna Santin (talk) 09:10, 12 August 2008 (UTC)

Kanabekobaton

This user has continued to make hundreds of edits a day without bothering to explain themselves when challenged, including page moves and redirects. All inexplicably deemed minor. A discussion has been opened here. DarkAudit (talk) 23:48, 12 August 2008 (UTC)

Looks like there's already some substantial discussion, here; thanks for keeping me in the loop. – Luna Santin (talk) 00:06, 14 August 2008 (UTC)

Test edit

OK, works now, thanks. Peter Damian (talk) 18:45, 13 August 2008 (UTC)

Ah, good. :) Glad that's cleared up. – Luna Santin (talk) 18:46, 13 August 2008 (UTC)

Please look over these edit summaries of an IP address you blocked today

I went to the talk page of this IP user and saw that you had already blocked the account for 24 hours. I think you may find this edit summary and this one flagrant violations of our no-personal-attacks policy. I think the IP knows better and would never make statements like that if editing under a regular account name. I don't know whether or not a longer block is a good idea or, really, what to do about this character. Thanks for the admin work you did. -- Noroton (talk) 23:45, 13 August 2008 (UTC)

Oh. Just saw the AN/I thread. I think you're already on top of this. If you're not too busy, would you mind watching The Obama Nation page? The book is an instant best-seller and is pretty much guaranteed to stir up anger and emotions, and I think that will be reflected in the article. Other admins are watching Obama-related pages, and I plan to leave a note about this article at the Talk:Barack Obama page. Either way, I think it will be watched. Thanks again. Noroton (talk) 23:54, 13 August 2008 (UTC)

I've been keeping a (loose) eye on the page, off and on, today, but feel free to poke me if there's something more urgent. I'll be a bit spotty as far as availability, next day or two, so feel free to go to other admins for help as needed. :) Thanks for the note, all the same. – Luna Santin (talk) 00:09, 14 August 2008 (UTC)

I see

Luna making blocks! But I don't see Luna! *Cries* KnowledgeOfSelf | talk 03:21, 14 August 2008 (UTC)

You may need to wait a few days, I'm afraid. – Luna Santin (talk) 03:23, 14 August 2008 (UTC)

NOOOOO. But I has news for you! You must hear it! Email or the talker you tell me man. KnowledgeOfSelf | talk 03:26, 14 August 2008 (UTC)

Email works! – Luna Santin (talk) 03:27, 14 August 2008 (UTC)

Bastard! How'd I know you'd day that? ;p Email you have then! KnowledgeOfSelf | talk 03:29, 14 August 2008 (UTC)

{{coi}}

Dear Luna Santin I added {{coi}} to this article, The Jewish Internet Defense Force As still I can’t make it a neutral point of view. If something wrong delete it--Puttyschool (talk) 05:03, 14 August 2008 (UTC)

I was only responding to a vandalism issue; beyond that, I'm inclined to leave the regular editorial process be. :) – Luna Santin (talk) 05:05, 14 August 2008 (UTC)

hey

hey im new teach me . inlight me . i wana post a pic here and a document about a forum called evil community —Preceding unsigned comment added by MeTaLiXe (talk • contribs) 05:39, 14 August 2008 (UTC)

In that case, you might want to take a look at Wikipedia:Introduction and Wikipedia:Your first article. Unfortunately, the particular subject you posted about may not be appropriate for inclusion in Wikipedia (see WP:WEB and what Wikipedia is not), but there's a great many things you could post or edit about. – Luna Santin (talk) 05:45, 14 August 2008 (UTC)

User J Hoffer vandalism

Dear Luna Santin Please stop this user user:J Hoffer (Special:Contributions/J Hoffer) vandalism issue. Thanks--Puttyschool (talk) 14:32, 14 August 2008 (UTC)

Looking. – Luna Santin (talk) 15:13, 14 August 2008 (UTC)

Cause of my changes

Dear Luna Santin I Rolled back J Hoffer words “violence” and “terrorism” in The Jewish Internet Defense Force, reason in talk page! Sorry, what they care about we must also care about--Puttyschool (talk) 21:02, 14 August 2008 (UTC)

Please check this word

Dear Luna Santin The word “terrorism” has a lot of constrains to use it, please check its usability, and if Ok add a comment about it in talk page, when I suggested “terrorism trends”, it was listed in one of the references and can be a “go around solution”, not the exact meaning.--Puttyschool (talk) 01:26, 15 August 2008 (UTC)

Removal of Palestinian Media Watch & Honest Reporting from Jewish Internet Defense Force article

You are correct, they don't belong there so I removed them. — A lizard (talk) 05:03, 15 August 2008 (UTC)

I didn't see any obvious affiliation, either, and came to pretty much the same conclusion you did... though I missed the "see also" links, oddly enough. Thanks for catching those. I'm open to being corrected if it turns out we're mistaken, of course. :) – Luna Santin (talk) 23:58, 15 August 2008 (UTC)

Untitled thread from Ragemanchoo

And now you're stalking. Congrats. --Ragemanchoo (talk) 06:12, 15 August 2008 (UTC)

Leaving one note on your talk page is "stalking"? It doesn't seem to me that I've asked for anything terribly outrageous. – Luna Santin (talk) 23:58, 15 August 2008 (UTC)

Please respond

Wikipedia:Administrators'_noticeboard/Incidents#Persistant_misuse_of_the_minor_edit_flag -- John (Daytona2 · Talk · Contribs) 18:33, 15 August 2008 (UTC)

Primarily spoken in an effort to keep things calm. I can see why you might take it personally, but that wasn't the intention; my apologies. – Luna Santin (talk) 06:12, 16 August 2008 (UTC)

Request for help (RFH)

Dear Luna Santin Please check the translation in my last comment at end of this talk pageTalk:The_Jewish_Internet_Defense_Force, in small font, if something wrong with the words delete it, it is a translation and must be the same--Puttyschool (talk) 01:10, 16 August 2008 (UTC)

I'm not trying to acomplish anything if I'm honest. Why are u getting involved tho?

u will never know my actuall acount. I could be Curps for all u know!! Do u know him or are u not an old timer like me!! —Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.132.136.211 (talk) 03:28, 16 August 2008 (UTC)

Not to burst your bubble, but I'm not exactly holding my breath in suspense. :p I didn't know Curps personally, no. As long as we're asking why people are getting involved, why are you? – Luna Santin (talk) 03:33, 16 August 2008 (UTC)

Lol he was a legend. Why am I involved, don't really know, mainly because u get so many bullshit articles and bullshit editors that for some reason want a high edit count and want to write large numbers if articles on crap. I though I'd re adress the balance because if I didn't exsist wikipedia would be 40 articles and about a hundred (two features) images short. This is small fish in comparsion to what I have helped! —Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.132.136.203 (talk) 03:43, 16 August 2008 (UTC)

Thank you for your prior contributions, then. Unfortunately, your current behavior is disruptive, and admins are going to react accordingly. – Luna Santin (talk) 03:55, 16 August 2008 (UTC)

Iphone's are great for new ips, if only willy on wheels new that, remember him by any chance? Just to let u know I'm stopping now, hope I added a bit of interest to ur night! Keep up the editing, I will (good ones only!) 82.132.136.201 (talk) 04:02, 16 August 2008 (UTC)

Damn u got me... Oh wait, still editing! 82.132.136.215 (talk) 04:27, 16 August 2008 (UTC)

Those sock pupets on ur iPhone list arennot all me, don't be harsh! <82.132.136.213 (talk) 04:37, 16 August 2008 (UTC)

thank you

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thank you for talking and not just giving me a auotmated response or deleting me ur the first one who did that and thats y im giving you this cookie

Ah, thanks. :) It's sometimes quite impressive what can happen when we just speak to others as human beings, I think. – Luna Santin (talk) 08:45, 17 August 2008 (UTC)

		The Random Acts of Kindness Barnstar
		I hearby award this barnstar to you for taking the time to talk to other people Neon5162 (talk) 16:04, 20 August 2008 (UTC)

Thanks

Hey there! I was not around to see 86. ... get involved in disruptive editing, but I would like to thank you for keeping the guy from messing up my user page. Cheers, ~ Troy (talk) 23:33, 16 August 2008 (UTC)

Of course. Let me know if I miss any repeat problems. – Luna Santin (talk) 08:45, 17 August 2008 (UTC)

Thanks (A Bit Late)

WikiThanks

It seems I never properly thanked you for the barnstar and for generally being a good administrator and a good person through the whole "In Popular Culture" issue. Despite our beginning diametrically opposed to each other, you we're one of the few people who prevented the entire thing from being a very frustrating experience by actually reading others' comments and being willing to discuss the issue. Much thanks, and keep up all your good work! ~ FerralMoonrender (T • C) 05:42, 17 August 2008 (UTC)

Ah, I felt it was the least I could do. :) Glad to see you're still about, though. – Luna Santin (talk) 08:45, 17 August 2008 (UTC)

no subject

It seems you like to follow me around on here, yes? --70.121.33.78 (talk) 08:35, 17 August 2008 (UTC)

For now, yes. Why do you suppose that is? :p – Luna Santin (talk) 08:45, 17 August 2008 (UTC)

Becuase you revert everything I edit. That's why. :) mmmm --70.121.33.78 (talk) 08:46, 17 August 2008 (UTC)

Thanks for the welcome

I'm starting to learn more and more about wiki'ing. These "Talk" pages take some getting used to. --Ohaohashingo (talk) 14:32, 17 August 2008 (UTC)

Usually I do try to make a habit of welcoming helpful people I see around the wiki. It does take a bit to get into the swing of things. :) If you stick with it, though, it can be pretty fun. – Luna Santin (talk) 22:26, 17 August 2008 (UTC)

block

Hi, could you block this guy?[7] — goethean ॐ 15:09, 17 August 2008 (UTC)

I'm kinda torn, there. =\ They don't seem to be up to anything good, with that edit, but at the same time I don't recognize them as a repeat troublemaker -- am I missing an obvious link to some other account? – Luna Santin (talk) 22:28, 17 August 2008 (UTC)

Interesting. Next time I feel like threatening violence against someone, I'll keep your leniency in mind. — goethean ॐ 04:06, 18 August 2008 (UTC)

I will block the user in the event of any repeat incidents, or if a greater pattern of disruptive behavior can be established. If you have reason to take this threat seriously, you may be better off contacting local authorities. In the meantime, I'll request a second opinion from another administrator, and have no objection if you do the same. – Luna Santin (talk) 06:31, 18 August 2008 (UTC)

How do I find the person who keeps removing my posts? I have put in a well known native of Westerville, Ohio ( who has yet to get a page so I can write it) but everytime I put his name in someone deletes it. He is on the "list" to be approved, so I'm confused as to WHY he was deleted from Westerville. —Preceding unsigned comment added by CJS007 (talk • contribs) 23:18, 24 August 2008 (UTC)

Is this a copyright infringement?

Hello Luna (is it ok if I don't say Dear? ;) ), I just had a quick question about this article, which I found some days ago. It is a stub article with the exact same plot summary as its entry on the IMDB; [8]. Looking at the history, the information hasn't been "introduced at once by a single person"; instead it has been added one piece at the time by different editors. Should this article be a speedy deletion candidate? Talsurrak (talk) 01:36, 18 August 2008 (UTC)

That's a tricky one. ~.~ With user-submitted sites, it can be difficult to tell who's the one doing the copying. Is there some way we can check the date the IMDB summary was added? I didn't see any obvious method. Looks like the first sentence (which closely matches the first sentence in the IMDB summary) was added in late 2007 by 7231g (talk · contribs) (who is still active, I think), and later expanded (again closely matching the IMDB description) in mid-2008 by 92.233.77.245 (talk · contribs). The author on IMDB only appears to have one writing credit. I'm more optimistic about 7231g's edit, but you might ask them or check with admins more up to speed on copyright issues. – Luna Santin (talk) 06:24, 18 August 2008 (UTC)

*lol* So anyways ;), I did a google search and found what appears to be the films official site; [9], and what do you know, I found yet another synopsis that appears to be the same as the one I found on the IMDB. Futher more, the person that put up the synopsis in the first place claims to be Alma Har'el, which was (one?) of the producers of the film. Oh my head hurts now, I will never edit something as complicated as this ever again! :p Talsurrak (talk) 19:54, 18 August 2008 (UTC)

Hmm. The IP that edited our article had also edited Adrian Brody (who is in the film, I gather). It's possible the user was in fact a producer who intended to post the text, but that brings up the question of whether they intended to license it under the GFDL, and so on. Might be wise to stub or rephrase the article, pending better confirmation of the specifics. – Luna Santin (talk) 21:44, 18 August 2008 (UTC)

Yes, sounds alright, I could try to rephrase the synopsis, link to some reliable information from Variety or the Hollywood reporter, and then bye-bye article! ...Or I can be a total coward and just sneak out through the back door, forgetting that I ever saw the article in the first place...  ;) Talsurrak (talk) 23:44, 18 August 2008 (UTC)

I've gone ahead and stubbed the article, for now, to be on the safe side. – Luna Santin (talk) 03:23, 19 August 2008 (UTC)

Ok, I've found some information relating to the article, I'll try to edit it in when I have the time. Thanks for all the help Luna, i hope I didn't take up to much of your time with this! ;) Thanks again. Talsurrak (talk) 17:02, 20 August 2008 (UTC)

atn

Hi- I tried an experiment based on atn, which is supposed to navigate between yearly archive pages. I am a new user and I don't even have pages that have archived yet, but this is pretty interesting stuff. Without your model to inspire me, I would never have tried this. It's in Atny; the related templates it calls are in Last, Next, and Previous. I have it on my Talk page. I am wondering if there is a way to keep it from automatically adding a section on the talk page? Also, would you be kind enough to take a look at how I refer to the first archive page in Atny. I sort of jury-rigged it. I have an Archives page which will be the parent of the year archive pages. I did that to have that archives page be the index using User:HBC Archive Indexerbot. Thank you for your feedback! Newportm (talk) 03:51, 18 August 2008 (UTC)

Interesting. :) Glad to see others putting this to creative use. As far as the extra section, it looks like it's coming from the first line here. Specifying an opening year should work for the time being; if you'd rather generate it dynamically, I don't believe there would ever be any talk archives predating 2001 (Wikipedia's founding year). I thiiiink that more or less answered everything you asked, but remind me if I missed anything. :p – Luna Santin (talk) 06:14, 18 August 2008 (UTC)

Thanks! "Q:Have you seen my glasses?" "A:Yes, you're wearing them." Newportm (talk) 14:52, 18 August 2008 (UTC)

JIDF

Hi Luna Santin Please share your point of view--Puttyschool (talk) 18:08, 18 August 2008 (UTC)

Flags of the Republic of Macedonia

Hi Luna Santin, Here is a problem again! Please, take a look. An unregistred sockpuppet reverts the topic repetidly again, without any constructive discussion. Regards. Jingby (talk) 18:17, 18 August 2008 (UTC)

Jewish Internet Defense Force

Hi Luna,

You removed a line saying the JIDF was not the first to say the Facebook group in question was antisemitic... you said it was redundant. The problem I now have with what is left is that there is no link between the information presented in the remainign paragraph and the article. The fact that other sources have described the Facebook group as antisemitic show that in this high profile case at least, the group removed by the JIDF was widely recognised as antisemitic. i.e. it suggests the JIDF removes things commonly seen as antisemitic, not simply things it disagrees with politically. Can you find a way of weaving that link back in to provide context?

If you can, many thanks, Oboler (talk) 21:28, 18 August 2008 (UTC)

I would think it flows adequately, as is, but I'm open to other options. If a transition is needed, that's fine, though I don't think it needs to be its own paragraph. :) – Luna Santin (talk) 21:39, 18 August 2008 (UTC)

Hi Luna, thought you'd want to see this[10] and possibly express your opinion on the AfD request for the article as you've contributed to it. Oboler (talk) 07:09, 20 August 2008 (UTC)

ANI

In response to this - it was not "speedy keep"ed. Its deletion tag was improperly removed for claim of nothing new, whereas the previous deletions dealt with content and not copyright issue. Therefore, the concern was new. The deletion has since been updated to point out that there is a second version, and CC would not allow derivatives to exist without acknowledgment of the original. Since this one is cropped, it obviously can't be the original, and there is no notice of such on the tag. Therefore, it breaks copyright standards in its current state. Without the original uploader to verify any of the vital information, it cannot exist. Ottava Rima (talk) 22:46, 18 August 2008 (UTC)

Assuming we accept it is in fact a legitimate derivative, the original author is the same user (uploaded here as Image:Sexuality_pearl_necklace.png). That aside, I imagine you should be having this argument with someone other than me. – Luna Santin (talk) 22:54, 18 August 2008 (UTC)

My only purpose is to point out that it was not "speedy" and it could be misleading to suggest it would be. Ottava Rima (talk) 23:09, 18 August 2008 (UTC)

The point is not what they do with it. The point is what others do with it. CC 2.5 is all about having to track the process of derivatives and attributing to the original work. We don't even have a date of creation, so it would be rather hard to even establish that. The person who did this was sloppy and it should be easily replaceable with something compliant and, preferably, GFDL so there wouldn't be a need to go through so many hoops. As far as I can tell, Nandesuka doesn't care if there is a new image there, so its not about censorship. Ottava Rima (talk) 02:49, 19 August 2008 (UTC)

I have to jump through these hurdles to get PD images appropriate enough licensed for FA. If you don't think I'm right, go ahead. It doesn't really matter. The matter should be dropped at ANI, and you can have the last say. However, the page there isn't serving a purpose. Ottava Rima (talk) 20:18, 20 August 2008 (UTC)

I just wanted to drop a note to make it clear that I respect your work, and that you have always shown yourself to be a reasonable person in the times we have had run ins before. I'm sorry if I may have frustrated you. Ottava Rima (talk) 21:22, 20 August 2008 (UTC)

Likewise, thanks for everything you've done here, your work nurturing content in mainspace especially. :) I think we disagree more often than not, when we do come across each other, but that's not necessarily bad; hard to have a good dialogue if everybody just agrees, after all. I'll be looking forward to our next crossing of paths. – Luna Santin (talk) 21:37, 20 August 2008 (UTC)

I'm a disagreeable person, so its understandable. :) However, I never try to take anything personally/serious enough to think of it as anything but an argument. My email and talk page is always welcome to you. :) Ottava Rima (talk) 21:55, 20 August 2008 (UTC)

I sent you an email in which I need your advice. I hope you don't mind. Ottava Rima (talk) 23:54, 21 August 2008 (UTC)

Dingbat2007's IP socks

I have a concern that 70. ... (70.128. ... most recently) is the same guy as 76.229.86.101, located at Richardson, Texas according to WHOIS. Now, 76.229.86.101 appears to be a sockpuppet of Dingbat2007 (as explained on Neutralhomer's talk page), so if the two IPs match and are not shared IP address, than this guy's sockpuppetry is likely the second most massive case that I've come across.

The large chunk of the IPs (as explained here) are traced from Richardson, Texas, others are traced from Herndon, Virginia, but the point is, the IP range matches and so does the disruptive editing. Dingbat's user account socks might have been obvious, but these IPs appear to be taking it a little too far. I dunno if we should contact any sockpuppet experts (like Rlevese or Thatcher), but either way, I'm afraid that block evasions are, in this case, about as common as the vandal edits themselves.

PS, the two routes from Virginia and Texas evidently match as seen on this image talk page. Regards, ~ Troy (talk) 02:46, 19 August 2008 (UTC)

Which IPs, specifically, are editing problematically at the moment? – Luna Santin (talk) 03:15, 19 August 2008 (UTC)

Ones that appear to come up almost daily. The last known "sock" of Dingbat was apparently an IP that was registered at AT & T in Richardson, TX ...76.229.86.101, who was active just a day ago, is registered at AT & T in TX as well ...OK, the editing from the Virginia-based ISPs are not quite something that I'm sure of, but I guess I sort of subconsciously noticed a link between the two ...regardless, I can tell you for sure that if Dingbat's sock puppet report is anywhere near accurate, then 76.229.86.101 must be the same guy—and so are all the other Richardson, Texas-based IPs at which the vandal is using. I often check the whois report and "Texas" and "Virginia" seem to come up almost daily—different but similar IPs, usually. Otherwise, if in doubt, I think a Checkuser should be able to confirm things. Sometimes, when IPs change, there is only a minor difference and the first 5 or 6 digits rarely change—this is the case in the smaller ranges. However, in this case, the IP range is massive ...only the first couple of digits are recognizable. Do you have any suggestions, or should I not bother? ~ Troy (talk) 17:09, 19 August 2008 (UTC)

I'll check back on this later (short for time at the moment, sorry). – Luna Santin (talk) 20:48, 19 August 2008 (UTC)

Unless I'm already familiar with a case (I wasn't, with this one), I really need a quick background on it to figure out what's going on: links to SPP pages (which you gave), lists of recently active IPs and/or attacked pages (which would have been very helpful) and so on. Ranges and geolocation are useful, but only after I know what I'm looking for.

IPs you've mentioned so far:

• 76.229.86.101 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · filter log · WHOIS · RDNS · RBLs · http · block user · block log)
• 70.244.21.106 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · filter log · WHOIS · RDNS · RBLs · http · block user · block log)
• 70.128.184.187 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · filter log · WHOIS · RDNS · RBLs · http · block user · block log)

Given an educated guess, I somewhat gather 70.128.184.187 and Jayne Mansfield seem to be a focus of attention? Wikipedia:Suspected sock puppets/Dingbat2007 seems to indicate the majority of past disruption involved edits to articles about TV stations; 76.229.86.101 is within the 76.192.0.0/10 range and appears to match, but hasn't edited in several months; I'm not sure if I see a link with this recent issue, but then I've only skimmed a large wall of text for surface meaning. The history of the (since semi-protected) Mansfield article got me a few more IPs:

• 70.250.145.140 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · filter log · WHOIS · RDNS · RBLs · http · block user · block log) (only one edit)
• 69.106.252.131 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · filter log · WHOIS · RDNS · RBLs · http · block user · block log) (fair amount of vandalism, though no obvious repeats)

So... I'm not sure what you're asking for? I still feel like I groping in the dark with half the story. I can't semi-protect a page without knowing it's being attacked; I can't block a range without seeing evidence of disruption by several IPs on that range. – Luna Santin (talk) 03:13, 20 August 2008 (UTC)

Yeah ...that guy is terrible with usernames, but it appears that Dingbat has sophisticated IP socks... may be I should look into it some more before inquiring about such a massive sock string. Well, thanks for trying! Regards, ~ Troy (talk) 19:03, 20 August 2008 (UTC)

Semen

Hi, I appreciate your interest in helping out in the semen article and current debate. I find useuser Jaakobou to be tedious and disruptive. Your discussion has been, so far, oriented toward building consensus, his have not. You indicated that you felt that he was discussing and participating in a consensus. Yet, the only discussion taking place currently toward building a consensus is at Talk:Semen#Survey_to_gain_consensus_to_remove_an_image, where although he has commented, he has not offered an opinion. You will note that the topic of that consensus building is not the lede image. His replacement of the lede image, followed by his explanation of what he did six hours later would not normally be considered to be participating in a consensus, nor discussing changes first, and then making changes. SO, I am a bit mystified by your latest comments that "As far as I can tell, the change is being made with both discussion and consensus." When clearly there was no prior discussion of changing the lede image ("...with discussion...") and no one else has indicated that replacing the lede with a bad copy was acceptable ("...and consensus.") Thanks again. Atom (talk) 04:05, 19 August 2008 (UTC)

Thanks for the RFC, I think the broader opinions of others is necessary in building consensus. Atom (talk) 12:55, 19 August 2008 (UTC)

Hopefully this evens things out. I debated refactoring the straw poll you made, but didn't want to risk offending in the process. :) – Luna Santin (talk) 20:46, 19 August 2008 (UTC)

Thanks for reverting my user talk page

Much appreciated. ... discospinster _talk 14:35, 19 August 2008 (UTC)

You betcha. :) – Luna Santin (talk) 20:48, 19 August 2008 (UTC)

Emeregency formatting

Luna, could you help me with formatting on the Indian hip hop article? I can't seem to get it right. Thanks. DubCrazy (talk) 15:34, 19 August 2008 (UTC)DubCrazy

Ah, sorry; wasn't around. Looks like you got some help, though? – Luna Santin (talk) 20:47, 19 August 2008 (UTC)

JIDF

I rolled back this edit of of JIDF based on the meaning of the user name also as I found the comment field empty, so I assumed vandalism, But when I traced the user contributions, I found that he has many contributions, and he is not a new user. I’m not sure what I did is correct or not, so please if this is against to the rules, or wrong, Please revert it again, and I’m sorry--Puttyschool (talk) 03:23, 20 August 2008 (UTC)

Please check talk page--Puttyschool (talk) 11:32, 20 August 2008 (UTC)

Oops!!

I just blocked him indef - feel free to change it if you like. Many egregious BLP attacks requiring oversight intervention tend to go that way - Alison ^❤ 05:54, 20 August 2008 (UTC)

Oh, no problem. I tend not to make a fuss about things unless I think a block is really uncalled for (or more practically, if I think we'll see good editing result). And speaking of oversight, I did send that one in. :p – Luna Santin (talk) 05:56, 20 August 2008 (UTC)

User:Captain picard's bald head

I see that you blocked the user, deleted the talk page and protected it. I'm sure you gave him adequate warning which he ignored? Axl (talk) 14:14, 20 August 2008 (UTC)

Abusive sockpuppets used for the expressed purpose of harassment tend not to get very many warnings (see here for a few similar ones also recently active). – Luna Santin (talk) 18:03, 20 August 2008 (UTC)

Okay, thanks. Axl (talk) 18:17, 20 August 2008 (UTC)