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Recreating kaioo?

Hi, you deleted kaioo in August as a result of an A7 speedy deletion request. I believe the site is rather significant and unique, in that it has received media coverage for being a non-profit social network that lets users vote on how to donate its proceeds. A previous version of the article pointed out this uniqueness, but later versions de-emphasized that point, so that the ultimate deletion decision was justified. Would you be ok with me recreating the article and highlighting the site's significance? Cheers, AxelBoldt (talk) 18:10, 6 November 2011 (UTC)

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Don't stay away too long or you'll forget all about us. Take it easy, Drmies (talk) 00:51, 9 November 2011 (UTC)

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What the hell were you thinking protecting User:Sitush? That page has hardly had any vandalism, and user pages of admins I thought were only protected! It looks to me like you did it cause you like the user. That user can get a little mean, and messes up articles like Yadav and Kim Kardashian, and definitely doesn't deserve it. — Preceding unsigned comment added by GreenMario1993 (talkcontribs) 21:45, 12 November 2011 (UTC)

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Please look at this ip editor at 190.46.95.25 & 190.45.54.212

This ip editor 190.45.54.212 has been edit warring [1]; making personal attacks: [2] and [3] and is being generally disruptive [4]. If you go to his talk page for his one computer [5], you will note I left him a message earlier today and he just went off on another rant. Thank you. Kierzek (talk) 02:00, 22 November 2011 (UTC)

(talk page stalker) Please note that Reaper Eternal has not edited since September 22nd. You may wish to consult with another administrator or report the user to the edit-warring noticeboard. Logan Talk Contributions 02:04, 22 November 2011 (UTC)
Thanks, Logan. Kierzek (talk) 02:17, 22 November 2011 (UTC)
Kierzek, you didn't leave a note--you left a templated warning, in which you falsely accused the IP of vandalism. Drmies (talk) 04:24, 22 November 2011 (UTC)
I left a civil note of Wikipedia policies and warning after he already cussed me out, and threatened me on my talk page. In my opinion he vandalised my talkpage. With that said, I will not edit war with him and if he comes back around to articles I edit will give him a chance like anyone else. I don't like to waste my time on baloney. The matter is now moot anyway. Kierzek (talk) 13:50, 22 November 2011 (UTC)

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Another RfA

Hello, Reaper Eternal, I am the beginner in Wikipedia, but would like to become an admin sometime, so your kind assistance would be very useful to me. I hope to count on your nomination as I reach the level of edits required by Wiki rules (soon, hopefully) - have only 1500+ edits so far in English Wiki. I will really appreciate your support --Orekhova (talk) 12:50, 12 December 2011 (UTC)

Absence

Sorry for being M.I.A. for so long, but that last quarter was very tough, and left me no time for wiki activities (adminning, writing articles, copyediting, and so forth). I had to focus on my homework and learning, so please accept my apologies for all the unanswered messages. I'd also like to give a big THANK YOU to all my talk page stalkers who intervened in my absence. I'm back! Reaper Eternal (talk) 16:44, 12 December 2011 (UTC)

Welcome back, Reaper. HurricaneFan25 16:50, 12 December 2011 (UTC)
Dear Reaper!
How great to see that you are again enriching Wikipedia and our lives!
Warmest regards,  Kiefer.Wolfowitz 16:56, 12 December 2011 (UTC)
Nice to see you back here. Had been wondering where you had gone off to... Calabe1992 19:42, 12 December 2011 (UTC)
Thanks guys! I'm glad to be back. Reaper Eternal (talk) 19:43, 12 December 2011 (UTC)
Welcome back, I missed seeing you in action here, I hope all is well with you. SwisterTwister talk 23:41, 12 December 2011 (UTC)
Welcome back, Reaper!--Hallows AG (talk) 01:14, 13 December 2011 (UTC)

Filter

Is an abuse filter appropriate to prevent User:Brucejenner and his socks from calling me a fag/faggot on my user talk page? Since apparently changes usually can't apply to a single page. CTJF83 19:32, 12 December 2011 (UTC)

Blech... I've modified filter 52, since it seems that the vandalism is mainly occurring in edit summaries, and your userpages are already in the huge laundry list of commonly disrupted userpages that is filter 294. Hope this helps. Reaper Eternal (talk) 19:42, 12 December 2011 (UTC)
Umm, what exactly does that mean? lol CTJF83 19:48, 12 December 2011 (UTC)
Basically, filter 294 has a list of people (like you, NawlinWiki, Bsadowski1, Gfoley4, myself, and Elockid) and a huge regex describing what cannot be added to these people's userpages. It is horribly difficult to maintain and debug due to its incredible size, which is why I called it a "laundry list". Reaper Eternal (talk) 19:52, 12 December 2011 (UTC)
......I'll just take your word it'll help, lol, thanks! CTJF83 19:56, 12 December 2011 (UTC)

Rollback

Just wanted to say thank you for granting me rollback. I intend to put it to good use. Tymun (talk) 21:25, 12 December 2011 (UTC)

You're welcome, and good luck! Reaper Eternal (talk) 21:54, 12 December 2011 (UTC)

Bromfords School

I think User:94.168.91.48 can go bye-bye at this point. Calabe1992 21:49, 12 December 2011 (UTC)

Blocked 31 hours for that little spree. Reaper Eternal (talk) 21:54, 12 December 2011 (UTC)

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the ISI article is locked for my editing

Seeing as you are and admin, and the article is blocked from my editing, I wanted to include the offician denial from the goverment to the allegations

"Whilst the Provincial Government says it is doing its best to improve law and order and end target killing which it blames on rival factional fighting.As many as 985 people have been sentenced so far while the cases of 875 accused in various crimes were in the courts" source http://www.thenews.com.pk/NewsDetail.aspx?ID=24183 — Preceding unsigned comment added by Ambelland (talkcontribs) 23:23, 14 December 2011 (UTC)

furthere more another section says "From 1994-2001, the ISI is widely agreed by the international community to have provided support to the Taliban in their rise to power and fight against anti-Taliban forces "

it should say:

"From 1994-2001, the ISI is widely agreed by the international community to have provided support to the Taliban in the after math of the fall of Commmunist Afghan when the Afghan Civil War started power" , I think its wrong to refer to all groups then as anti taliban, they changed sides many times and groups where fighting for thier interest not some grand primarily anti taliban alliance --Ambelland (talk) 23:27, 14 December 2011 (UTC)

I'm sorry, but when articles are fully protected, even administrators are not supposed to be editing them except when consensus is that the change should be made. Please request the change on the talk page of the article using the {{editprotected}} template to ensure that an administrator looks at it after awhile. Cheers! Reaper Eternal (talk) 13:34, 15 December 2011 (UTC)

Revision Deletion/Suppression

Hey Reaper. Given my work on rollbacking and patrolling for vandalism, I was hoping to remove my last name (that I foolishly included on my User Page back when I was a teenager...) and DOB from Wikipedia. The most recent edit on my userpage has both removed. If you could kindly work your magic to make all of the editions of my userpage prior disappear it would be appreciated. Thank you. :] --Tymun (Contact Me - Contribs) 07:31, 15 December 2011 (UTC)

I've temporarily revision deleted them all and emailed oversight. In the future, emailing oversight is the best course of action since my talk page has a decent number of watchers (more than 100), who could look at the information in the meantime. Additionally, I can only hide the information from regular users (not admins), whereas oversighters can hide information from everybody. Reaper Eternal (talk) 13:31, 15 December 2011 (UTC)
You rock. Thank you! --Tymun (Contact Me - Contribs) 14:00, 15 December 2011 (UTC)

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[6] Thanks! Crazynas t 14:18, 15 December 2011 (UTC)

There have been 10 reverts to WP:V in about as many hours. Please make up your minds on the talk page before changing the policy pages, which should represent consensus. Reaper Eternal (talk) 14:49, 15 December 2011 (UTC)

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WP:V

Hi, Reaper

Earlier today you complied with a full protection request on WP:5P Policy page WP:V. A request was lodged for unprotection by those seeking to change it. The key policy page has been under much discussion and 3 Admins. recently closed a long running RFC as no consensus to change. Unfortunately you protected the page with a highly controversial, non-consensus version, possibly due to a highly misleading edit summary, and there is concern on the talk page that, despite the RFC close, those who have long argued for a change have somehow succeeded in gaining an inappropriate victory. Above all however, the policy is simply without community support. Is there any reason why the correct consensus version cannot be reinstated and the page locked for the remaining 3 days? See also [7]. Thanks. Leaky Caldron 20:07, 15 December 2011 (UTC)

I have restored the last known stable version of the page per WP:PREFER and per the closure of RFC as "no consensus to change". (I had just locked the page on the version which happened to be up, as the differences are minor.) However, I dislike your reference to "their inappropriate victory", since Wikipedia is not a battleground. Good grief...I feel like I've waded into Balkan/Israeli-Palestine territory again. Reaper Eternal (talk) 21:40, 15 December 2011 (UTC)
Thanks. Unfortunately it is a battleground in relation to this issue. Although I said that there was concern on the talk page about one side winning and loosing I didn't say that was my personal sentiment. I just believe that the continued debate should be based on the neutral, long-standing version, not the disputed one. Leaky Caldron 21:53, 15 December 2011 (UTC)

You'll be needing this.

  You'll probably need this after the AN/I storm in a teacup that going on.

It was bad enough that some idiot protected the wrong version, but then you compounded things by reverting the protected page to the wrong version.

Drink to forget, but don't forget to drink! GraemeL (talk) 22:53, 15 December 2011 (UTC)

Haha, FWIW Reaper, I support you reverting me back to stability although I disagree with the page being protected in the first place. Thank you for recognizing that my edit really was minor (as you stated above) glad that some people have some perspective around here. Crazynas t 23:00, 15 December 2011 (UTC)

Ha, thanks! I was aware that as soon as I took any action on the request at RFPP, I was going to be taken to ANI sooner or later. I'm just quietly laughing at how some people get so worked up over something that really doesn't matter—no matter which wording is present, the meaning is still the same. If I had done what I personally wanted to do, I would have fully protected WP:V and WT:V. Reaper Eternal (talk) 23:47, 15 December 2011 (UTC)
Stick around for 3 days time when the current prot. expires. ;) Leaky Caldron 23:50, 15 December 2011 (UTC)

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Controversial edit through full protection

I think you have just made a controversial edit through full protection on WP:V. Please self-revert before there is an admin edit war or this goes to ANI. Hans Adler 21:40, 15 December 2011 (UTC)

See above for reasoning. Reaper Eternal (talk) 21:40, 15 December 2011 (UTC)
The encyclopedia isn't going to explode just because for a short while WP:V doesn't tell editors it's OK when we lie in article space. The current RfC is 7:1 in favour of not including "not truth" in the first sentence. And in case it's not clear: The RfC that ended in a "no consensus" of 1.85:1 in favour of change was about a different edit. Hans Adler 21:45, 15 December 2011 (UTC)
I have restored the last known consensus version as stated by the admins who closed the last RFC. And six people does not make a consensus for removing the phrase "not truth" when you consider how many people participated in the last RFC. If any admins feel I was inappropriate in restoring the consensus version, he/she can revert my edit. Reaper Eternal (talk) 21:48, 15 December 2011 (UTC)
Hans: There is no "current RfC". Most editors aren't taking the WP:POINTy RfC seriously. A Quest For Knowledge (talk) 21:58, 15 December 2011 (UTC)
It's nothing new that the side that is happy with the status quo disrupts processes that may lead to change. Hans Adler 22:04, 15 December 2011 (UTC)

See WP:ANI#Controversial edit through full protection. Hans Adler 22:04, 15 December 2011 (UTC)

...Which is now closed with the firm consensus that my revert was correct. Thank you. Reaper Eternal (talk) 21:33, 16 December 2011 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

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Thanks! Reaper Eternal (talk) 21:34, 16 December 2011 (UTC)

From userpage

"hey ill be glad to help with vandalism so try to message me if someones getting on your nerves but im not on all the time and sorry if this is getting on your nerves too i wont bother you anymore if you dont need help" — Preceding unsigned comment added by Leeboy100 (talkcontribs)

HurricaneFan25 — 20:20, 16 December 2011 (UTC)

Huh? Reaper Eternal (talk) 21:23, 16 December 2011 (UTC)

My edits

I'm not a vandal, I just wanted an information. If you cannot or don't want give it to me you could say instead of revert me. I made my question seriously.--95.239.184.117 (talk) 21:21, 16 December 2011 (UTC)

Stop trolling the reference desk, which doesn't exist to transcribe random porn videos for you. Please find something constructive to do. Reaper Eternal (talk) 21:23, 16 December 2011 (UTC)
Why didn't you answer that you couldn't transcribe the video below my RD question instead of revert my edits? You were trolls in this case, not I.--95.239.184.117 (talk) 21:33, 16 December 2011 (UTC)

Coaching

Hi, are you still interested in coaching me? Jarkeld (talk) 00:21, 18 December 2011 (UTC)

Certainly! I'll try not to disappear for a couple months this time. :/ Reaper Eternal (talk) 13:23, 19 December 2011 (UTC)

I liked your idea

So I just stole it...   Salvio Let's talk about it! 20:20, 19 December 2011 (UTC)

... and I am about to do the same. - Sitush (talk) 20:22, 19 December 2011 (UTC)
Heh. Glad you liked it! Reaper Eternal (talk) 20:46, 19 December 2011 (UTC)
  1 user likes this. HurricaneFan25 — 20:49, 19 December 2011 (UTC)
Ditto. Calabe1992 01:11, 21 December 2011 (UTC)

Article Feedback Tool

Thanks for adding yourself to the list :). Can I ask what you mean when you say "this is concerning"? Okeyes (WMF) (talk) 16:00, 20 December 2011 (UTC)

I'm very concerned about the possibilities of using the AFT for the purposes of mass spam or vandalism, which was why I asked my questions on the talk page. Having seen the way some vandals recruit 4chan raiders to mass-vandalize a user's talk page or flood an article with vandalism, I do not wish to be unable to do anything but hide comments if they decide to vandalize the comment section. (There can easily be 10 edits per minute during raids.) I hope my questions on the talk page help clarify this. :) Cheers! Reaper Eternal (talk) 16:05, 20 December 2011 (UTC)
Yeah; saw those comments immediately after I posted this (doh!). We are doing our best to ensure that regular spam isn't a problem (evaluating various different forms to get the one that produces the least junk, including AbuseFilter and Spam Blacklist access, weaving in a hide and oversight tool) and there will be some sort of blocking system and the technical architecture to put on limits of say, 1 comment per article per minute for each user. The specifics on who can use which tools and which bits get turned on immediately are still to be worked out - I wanted to wait until we'd finished finnicky testing before we brought it up, because that way I can engage editors as much as possible in making the decisions instead of being distracted by a/b testing :). Okeyes (WMF) (talk) 16:15, 20 December 2011 (UTC)
Okay. I guess I'll put my plug for having the protect tool (or variant thereof) added to the comments field on the AFT into the community discussion. The throttle also seems like a good idea. Cheers! Reaper Eternal (talk) 16:26, 20 December 2011 (UTC)
Hey...you should already know about the 4chan raiders/GNAA trolls. You're Ironholds! Reaper Eternal (talk) 16:30, 20 December 2011 (UTC)
Of course! I'm also secretly an eternal optimist. My bad :P. Don't get me wrong, I think those guys are problems - they're also edge cases, though. We shouldn't design for edge cases from the get-go, but we should totally be open to tweaking things if those edge cases prove to be a real problem. I'll drop you a line when we're discussing this stuff so you can get involved :). Okeyes (WMF) (talk) 22:45, 20 December 2011 (UTC)

Invitation to comment

I've been trying to think of something to finally put the pending changes issue to rest. It is still in an interim period, just not on articles at this point. Would any of my talk page stalkers mind taking a look at User:Reaper Eternal/Pending Changes for a very rough idea of what I am thinking? Thanks! :) Reaper Eternal (talk) 21:53, 20 December 2011 (UTC)

Vandal Fighting

Thank you for blocking Floobadoo. Can you also block his pals Stoner2396 and Sargeni1, and handle the Gears of War RFPP? Floo dosen't appear to have been acting alone (or is the other two). Sven Manguard Wha? 00:41, 21 December 2011 (UTC)

It looks like another admin has already dealt with that problem. Cheers! Reaper Eternal (talk) 12:55, 21 December 2011 (UTC)

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